Fights for the Flag ...: With Portraits and PlansSmith, Elder, & Company, 15 Waterloo Place, 1906 - Всего страниц: 333 |
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... stood over to the Flemish coast ; while the British , their flag- ship dismasted and with shot - battered sides , slowly bore up to Dover . It is characteristic , however , of the tireless and silent energy of Blake that , as war had ...
... stood over to the Flemish coast ; while the British , their flag- ship dismasted and with shot - battered sides , slowly bore up to Dover . It is characteristic , however , of the tireless and silent energy of Blake that , as war had ...
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... stood disclosed . There was wrath in Holland , alarm in Paris , and much agitated riding to and fro betwixt the head - quarters of the various French armies ; but it was too late for the Dutch to object , and also too late for the ...
... stood disclosed . There was wrath in Holland , alarm in Paris , and much agitated riding to and fro betwixt the head - quarters of the various French armies ; but it was too late for the Dutch to object , and also too late for the ...
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... stood a village called Oberglauh , held by fourteen battalions , amongst which were three Irish regiments destined to play a great part in the fight . Tallard covered his centre by a long screen of cavalry , strengthened by two brigades ...
... stood a village called Oberglauh , held by fourteen battalions , amongst which were three Irish regiments destined to play a great part in the fight . Tallard covered his centre by a long screen of cavalry , strengthened by two brigades ...
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... his squadrons upon them . But Marlborough had stiffened his cavalry with some battalions of infantry , and while the French and Bavarian cavalry broke in furious waves of assault upon them , these stood , 28 FIGHTS FOR THE FLAG.
... his squadrons upon them . But Marlborough had stiffened his cavalry with some battalions of infantry , and while the French and Bavarian cavalry broke in furious waves of assault upon them , these stood , 28 FIGHTS FOR THE FLAG.
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... stood , like steadfast islets ringed with steel and fire , with exactly the same immovable valour the British squares showed at Waterloo more than a century afterwards . Tallard's horse recoiled , Marlborough's squadrons re - formed ...
... stood , like steadfast islets ringed with steel and fire , with exactly the same immovable valour the British squares showed at Waterloo more than a century afterwards . Tallard's horse recoiled , Marlborough's squadrons re - formed ...
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