 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...  English Battles and Sieges in the Peninsula: Extracted from His Peninsula War - Pagina 181door William Francis Patrick Napier - 1852 - 549 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1834 - 614 pagina’s
...intemperance, savage lust, cruelty and murder, shrieks, and piteous lamentations, groans, shouts, and imprecations, the hissing of fires bursting from the...tumult rather subsided than was quelled. The wounded were then looked to, — the dead disposed of." REVIEW. — The Spirit of Sectarianism ; with Observations... | |
 | International peace society - 232 pagina’s
...reports of muskets used in violence, resounded for two days and nights in the streets of Badajoz ! on the third, when the city was sacked, when the soldiers...wounded men were then looked to ; the dead disposed of ! " — Vol. iv. pp. 424—431. Still more hideous in its graphic power, is the description of another... | |
 | William Francis Patrick Napier - 1834 - 642 pagina’s
...to stop the violence, but the madness generally prevailed, and as the worst men were leaders here, all the dreadful passions of human nature were displayed....disposed of! Five thousand men and officers fell during this siege, and of these, including seven hundred Portuguese, three thousand five hundred had been... | |
 | William Francis Patrick Napier - 1846 - 636 pagina’s
...to stop the violence, but the madness generally prevailed, and as the worst men were leaders here, all the dreadful passions of human nature were displayed....disposed of! Five thousand men and officers fell during this siege, and of these, including seven hundred Portuguese, three thousand five hundred had been... | |
 | 1834 - 426 pagina’s
...to stop the violence; but the madness generally prevailed, and as the worst men were leaders here, all the dreadful passions of human nature were displayed....disposed of! " Five thousand men and officers fell during this siege, and of these, including seven hundred Portuguese, three thousand five hundred had been... | |
 | Heaton Bowstead Robinson - 1835 - 910 pagina’s
...reports of muskets used in violence, resounded for two days and nights in the streets of Badajoz ! On the third, when the city was sacked, when the soldiers...excesses, the tumult rather subsided than was quelled."* * Lieutenant Macpherson, the officer whose gallant efforts to ascend the ladder have already been mentioned,... | |
 | Heaton Bowstead Robinson - 1836 - 498 pagina’s
...reports of muskets used in violence, resounded for two days and nights in the streets of Badajoz ! On the third, when the city was sacked, when the soldiers...excesses, the tumult rather subsided than was quelled."* * Lieutenant Macpherson, the officer whose gallant efforts to ascend the ladder have already been mentioned,... | |
 | Henry Southern, George William Frederick Villiers Earl of Clarendon - 1837 - 220 pagina’s
...reports of muskets used in violence, resounded for two days and nights in the streets of Badajoz ! On the third, when the city was sacked, when the soldiers...wounded men were then looked to, the dead disposed of ! " Such, unfortunately, was the conduct of troops, veterans in comparison to those of the Legion,... | |
 | Thomas Farr - 1838 - 358 pagina’s
...reports of muskets used in violence, re" sounded for two days and nights in the " streets of Badajoz ! On the third, when " the city was sacked, when the...men were then " looked to — the dead disposed of ! " L. " Such unfortunately was the conduct of " troops," says the pamphlet on Spanish policy, " veterans... | |
 | Thomas Farr - 1838 - 362 pagina’s
...reports of muskets used in violence, re" sounded for two days and nights in the " streets of Badajoz ! On the third, when " the city was sacked, when the...men were then " looked to — the dead disposed of ! " " Such unfortunately was the conduct of " troops," says the pamphlet on Spanish policy, " veterans... | |
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