Fights for the Flag ...: With Portraits and PlansSmith, Elder, & Company, 15 Waterloo Place, 1906 - Всего страниц: 333 |
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... troops , nearly 30,000 strong - 9000 of them being British - was to attack Blenheim and try and turn the French right . His cavalry was to menace the centre . Tallard had under his command 60,000 men , with ninety guns ; Marlborough had ...
... troops , nearly 30,000 strong - 9000 of them being British - was to attack Blenheim and try and turn the French right . His cavalry was to menace the centre . Tallard had under his command 60,000 men , with ninety guns ; Marlborough had ...
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... troops in furious onset on the enemy , but such was the strength of the position held by the French and Bavarians , and with such steady valour did they fight , that Eugene's assaults were all repulsed , and he himself was only saved ...
... troops in furious onset on the enemy , but such was the strength of the position held by the French and Bavarians , and with such steady valour did they fight , that Eugene's assaults were all repulsed , and he himself was only saved ...
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... troops , behind the palisades knelt long lines of infantry , while a second line standing erect fired over the heads of their kneeling comrades . The broad red column , its general , Rowe , leading , came on with iron steadiness , the ...
... troops , behind the palisades knelt long lines of infantry , while a second line standing erect fired over the heads of their kneeling comrades . The broad red column , its general , Rowe , leading , came on with iron steadiness , the ...
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... troops from the attack , the men falling sullenly back , full of unsatisfied eagerness for a new assault ; but Marlborough had discovered the flaw in Tallard's centre . He kept up the feint of an attack on Blenheim , but commenced to ...
... troops from the attack , the men falling sullenly back , full of unsatisfied eagerness for a new assault ; but Marlborough had discovered the flaw in Tallard's centre . He kept up the feint of an attack on Blenheim , but commenced to ...
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... troops , being led in triumph through the streets of Paris ; thus compensating dis- tressed French pride for the disasters of Crécy and of Poitiers , and the promenade of John I. as a captive through London ! France , it is to be noted ...
... troops , being led in triumph through the streets of Paris ; thus compensating dis- tressed French pride for the disasters of Crécy and of Poitiers , and the promenade of John I. as a captive through London ! France , it is to be noted ...
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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