Fights for the Flag ...: With Portraits and PlansSmith, Elder, & Company, 15 Waterloo Place, 1906 - Всего страниц: 333 |
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... rode captive through London ; a French emperor died in English captivity , and his remains were surrendered by English generosity . Twice the English horse marched from Calais to the Pyrenees ; once from the Pyrenees to Calais ; the ...
... rode captive through London ; a French emperor died in English captivity , and his remains were surrendered by English generosity . Twice the English horse marched from Calais to the Pyrenees ; once from the Pyrenees to Calais ; the ...
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... rode into Lord Stair's camp at Aschaffenburg . Royal father and son , betwixt them , had not military intelligence enough to make up a twentieth - rate general ; but both had an abundant stock of that primary element in a soldier , mere ...
... rode into Lord Stair's camp at Aschaffenburg . Royal father and son , betwixt them , had not military intelligence enough to make up a twentieth - rate general ; but both had an abundant stock of that primary element in a soldier , mere ...
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... rode beside him French nobles as daring and as reckless as himself . French genius , as a thousand battles prove , lies rather in attacking than in waiting to be attacked . De Grammont had watched for four intolerable hours the allied ...
... rode beside him French nobles as daring and as reckless as himself . French genius , as a thousand battles prove , lies rather in attacking than in waiting to be attacked . De Grammont had watched for four intolerable hours the allied ...
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... rode past him or over him ! On to the second line , but with diminished impact , the French cavalry rode . But it was like riding into the flames of a furnace . The ceaseless musketry scorched them on every side . The English lines ...
... rode past him or over him ! On to the second line , but with diminished impact , the French cavalry rode . But it was like riding into the flames of a furnace . The ceaseless musketry scorched them on every side . The English lines ...
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... rode to clear their fallen comrades , were , in turn , smitten with a cruel flank fire , and fell by scores . No cavalry could break through that front of fire and steel , and the French cavalry fell back shattered and half destroyed ...
... rode to clear their fallen comrades , were , in turn , smitten with a cruel flank fire , and fell by scores . No cavalry could break through that front of fire and steel , and the French cavalry fell back shattered and half destroyed ...
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advance afterwards Anson army attack battalions battle BATTLE OF MINDEN bayonets betwixt Blenheim breach brigade British line British ships British soldier broadside broke captain Cardigan cavalry centre Centurion charge Ciudad Rodrigo column command Contades Corunna courage crest crew daring deck division Dragoons enemy English fell fierce fight fire flagship flame flank fleet Florence Nightingale force fought French cavalry French line French ships front gallant galleon galloping grey guns Harris head hill horse horsemen infantry Jean Bon Saint-André Lord Cardigan Lord George Lord George Sackville Lord Raglan Marlborough Marmont mass miles Moore Moore's moving Napier Napoleon Navarino officers Queen Charlotte regiments retreat ridge Rifles rode Rodney round Russian sail sailor Salamanca San Sebastian Sandbag Battery says Scarlett shot shout siege slope smoke Soult Spain Spanish squadrons swept sword tempest thrust thunder troops tumult Urumea valley valour Vengeur victory Wellington whole wounded yards