Fights for the Flag ...: With Portraits and PlansSmith, Elder, & Company, 15 Waterloo Place, 1906 - Всего страниц: 333 |
Результаты поиска по книге
Результаты 6 – 10 из 67
Стр. 32
... army , 60,000 strong , composed in the main of veterans and familiar with victory , practically ceased to exist . That battle changed the course of history . It destroyed the dream of a universal empire which Louis XIV . had cherished ...
... army , 60,000 strong , composed in the main of veterans and familiar with victory , practically ceased to exist . That battle changed the course of history . It destroyed the dream of a universal empire which Louis XIV . had cherished ...
Стр. 53
... army of 40,000 gallant men , under a British general , Lord Stair , lay bewildered and helpless in the narrow valley , some eight miles long , betwixt Dettingen and Aschaffenburg . It seemed a doomed army . In the judgment of their ...
... army of 40,000 gallant men , under a British general , Lord Stair , lay bewildered and helpless in the narrow valley , some eight miles long , betwixt Dettingen and Aschaffenburg . It seemed a doomed army . In the judgment of their ...
Стр. 54
... army was , on their own admission , routed by the ter- rible English column , and victory was snatched from its grasp solely from want of support on the part of the Dutch and Austrians . No coalition against France has ever been ...
... army was , on their own admission , routed by the ter- rible English column , and victory was snatched from its grasp solely from want of support on the part of the Dutch and Austrians . No coalition against France has ever been ...
Стр. 55
... where the British were stranded , was a great French army , 70,000 strong , under the most famous of living French generals , the Marshal de Noailles . A master of the art of war , De Noailles had. GEORGE II . AT DETTINGEN 55 5555.
... where the British were stranded , was a great French army , 70,000 strong , under the most famous of living French generals , the Marshal de Noailles . A master of the art of war , De Noailles had. GEORGE II . AT DETTINGEN 55 5555.
Стр. 56
... army . The most serious feature in the position of the allied army was the fact that its communications were cut , and its supplies exhausted . An army , according to Frederick the Great , " moves on its stomach , " and the British ...
... army . The most serious feature in the position of the allied army was the fact that its communications were cut , and its supplies exhausted . An army , according to Frederick the Great , " moves on its stomach , " and the British ...
Другие издания - Просмотреть все
Часто встречающиеся слова и выражения
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