Fights for the Flag ...: With Portraits and PlansSmith, Elder, & Company, 15 Waterloo Place, 1906 - Всего страниц: 333 |
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... town , only one man of the attacking party being killed and two wounded ! Anson's ships by daybreak were off the town , and more than £ 30,000 in coined silver was car- ried on board from the public treasury , and the whole town was ...
... town , only one man of the attacking party being killed and two wounded ! Anson's ships by daybreak were off the town , and more than £ 30,000 in coined silver was car- ried on board from the public treasury , and the whole town was ...
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... town . Hope's division held the left of this ridge ; Baird's the right . Paget's division was in reserve , covering the valley which curved round the western extremity of the ridge , and ran up to Corunna . Still farther to the west ...
... town . Hope's division held the left of this ridge ; Baird's the right . Paget's division was in reserve , covering the valley which curved round the western extremity of the ridge , and ran up to Corunna . Still farther to the west ...
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... town , having a population of something like 10,000 people . A line of ramparts ran along the eastern face of the town , betwixt the curtain across the neck of the isthmus and Monte Orgullo . The Urumea washed the foot of this rampart ...
... town , having a population of something like 10,000 people . A line of ramparts ran along the eastern face of the town , betwixt the curtain across the neck of the isthmus and Monte Orgullo . The Urumea washed the foot of this rampart ...
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... town was reached . The town itself must be carried by obstinate street - fighting , while Monte Orgullo , with the stroke of its batteries , covered the whole field of combat , and could be held independently after the town itself had ...
... town was reached . The town itself must be carried by obstinate street - fighting , while Monte Orgullo , with the stroke of its batteries , covered the whole field of combat , and could be held independently after the town itself had ...
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... town . Even at this early stage in the siege the British began to feel the strength of the defence . Frazer writes in his diary on July 19 : " The enemy has some good head in the fortress ; we must feel for it . He fires and takes his ...
... town . Even at this early stage in the siege the British began to feel the strength of the defence . Frazer writes in his diary on July 19 : " The enemy has some good head in the fortress ; we must feel for it . He fires and takes his ...
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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