English Battles and Sieges in the Peninsula: Extracted from His Peninsula War |
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action allies arms army arrived artillery assailed assault attack bank battalions battery battle body breach bridge brigade British broken called carried castle cavalry centre charge close Colonel column combat command communication continued covered crossed deep defence detachment directed enemy English fall fell fight fire five flank followed force fords formed forward four fourth French front gained gave ground guards guns hand head heavy heights Hill Hope hundred infantry joined killed latter light division loss lost mass menaced miles mountain moved movement musketry narrow night o'clock occupied officers opened operations passage passed Portuguese position pushed rear regiment reinforced remained reserve retired retreat ridge river road rocks sent side siege skirmishers soldiers soon Soult Spaniards Spanish strong third thousand took town troops turned twelve valley village Wellington whole wing wounded
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Pagina 181 - Now commenced that wild and desperate wickedness, which tarnished the lustre of the soldier's heroism. All indeed were not alike, hundreds risked and many lost their lives in striving to stop the violence; but madness generally prevailed, and the worst men being leaders all the dreadful passions of human nature were displayed. Shameless rapacity, brutal intemperance, savage lust, cruelty and murder, shrieks and piteous lamentations, groans, shouts, imprecations, the hissing of fires bursting from...
Pagina 116 - Such a gallant line, issuing from the midst of the smoke, and rapidly separating itself from the confused and broken multitude, startled the enemy's heavy masses, which were increasing and pressing onwards as to an assured victory ; they wavered, hesitated, and then vomiting...
Pagina 116 - In vain did Soult, by voice and gesture, animate his Frenchmen ; in vain did the hardiest veterans, extricating themselves from the crowded columns, sacrifice their lives to gain time for the mass to open out on such a fair field ; in vain did the mass itself bear up, and fiercely striving, fire indiscriminately upon friends and foes, while the horsemen hovering on the Hank threatened to charge the advancing line.
Pagina 116 - Suddenly and sternly recovering, they closed on their terrible enemies, and then was seen with what a strength and majesty the British soldier fights. In vain did Soult, by voice and gesture, animate his Frenchmen ; in vain did the hardiest veterans...
Pagina 181 - Shameless rapacity, brutal intemperance, savage lust, cruelty, and murder, shrieks and piteous lamentations, groans, shouts, imprecations, the hissing of fires bursting from the houses, the crashing of doors and windows, and the reports of muskets used in violence, resounded for two days and nights in the streets of...
Pagina 232 - I saw him late in the evening of that great day, when the advancing flashes of cannon and musketry, stretching as far as the eye could command, shewed in the darkness how well the field was won ; he was alone, the flush of victory was on his brow, and his eyes were eager and watchful, but his voice was calm, and even gentle. More than the rival of Marlborough, since he had defeated greater warriors than Marlborough ever encountered, with a prescient pride he seemed only to accept this glory, as an...
Pagina 176 - Macleod, of the forty-third, a young man whose feeble body would have been quite unfit for war, if it had not been sustained by an unconquerable spirit, was killed.
Pagina 117 - Nothing could stop that astonishing infantry. No sudden burst of undisciplined valour, no nervous enthusiasm weakened the stability of their order, their flashing eyes were bent on the dark columns in their front, their measured tread shook the ground, their dreadful volleys swept away the head of every formation, their deafening shouts overpowered the dissonant cries that broke from all parts of the tumultuous crowd, as slowly and with a horrid carnage it was pushed by the incessant vigour of the...
Pagina 68 - A poor orphan Portuguese girl, about seventeen years of age, and very handsome, was seen coming down the mountain and driving an ass, loaded with all her property, through the midst of the French army. She had abandoned her dwelling in obedience to the proclamation, and now passed over the field of battle with a childish simplicity, totally unconscious of her perilous situation, and scarcely understanding which...
Pagina 59 - ... did they often meet without a quarrel. Nevertheless, they had many points of resemblance in their characters and fortunes. Both were inclined to harshness, and rigid in command ; both prone to disobedience, yet exacting entire submission from inferiors ; and they were alike ambitious and craving of glory.
Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | English Battles and Sieges in the Peninsula: Extracted from His Peninsula War |
| Auteur | William Francis Patrick Napier |
| Uitgever | Chapman and Hall, 1852 |
| Oorspronkelijk uit | Oxford University |
| Gedigitaliseerd | 4 juli 2006 |
| Lengte | 549 pagina's |
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