Fights for the Flag ...: With Portraits and PlansSmith, Elder, & Company, 15 Waterloo Place, 1906 - Всего страниц: 333 |
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... took command after he fell were slain . The men , under the whirling smoke , and scorched with the flames of incessant volleys , were trying to tear up the palisades with their hands , or clamber over them by mounting on each other's ...
... took command after he fell were slain . The men , under the whirling smoke , and scorched with the flames of incessant volleys , were trying to tear up the palisades with their hands , or clamber over them by mounting on each other's ...
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... took the Prince himself a prisoner , and hurled his men a mere wreck down the slope . For the moment Marlborough's centre was broken by that wild charge . The Irish , with characteristic recklessness , were pur- suing the routed ...
... took the Prince himself a prisoner , and hurled his men a mere wreck down the slope . For the moment Marlborough's centre was broken by that wild charge . The Irish , with characteristic recklessness , were pur- suing the routed ...
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... took fire , and in the light of the red flames Frenchmen and Englishmen fought hand to hand with fiery valour . But with the centre destroyed , and the left wing in full retreat , the condition of Tallard's right , shut up in Blenheim ...
... took fire , and in the light of the red flames Frenchmen and Englishmen fought hand to hand with fiery valour . But with the centre destroyed , and the left wing in full retreat , the condition of Tallard's right , shut up in Blenheim ...
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... took forty days to reach Madeira , and sailed thence , on November 3 , for St. Jago , one of the Cape Verde islands being appointed as a rendezvous . The weather continued fine , but already scurvy had broken out in the squadron , and ...
... took forty days to reach Madeira , and sailed thence , on November 3 , for St. Jago , one of the Cape Verde islands being appointed as a rendezvous . The weather continued fine , but already scurvy had broken out in the squadron , and ...
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... took him nine days to claw back to the westward and come in sight of Juan Fernandez . And during those nine days his men died so fast that " out of two hundred and odd men which remained alive we could not , taking all our watches ...
... took him nine days to claw back to the westward and come in sight of Juan Fernandez . And during those nine days his men died so fast that " out of two hundred and odd men which remained alive we could not , taking all our watches ...
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