Deeds that Won the Empire: Historic Battle ScenesSmith, Elder, & Company, 1898 - 328 pagina's |
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Deeds That Won The Empire: Historic Battle Scenes [Illustrated Edition] W. H. Fitchett Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2015 |
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admiral Adour anchor ANNE BRONTË army artillery attack Badajos battalions batteries battle bayonets betwixt boats Brest brigade British British fleet British line British ships broadside broke Busaco captain captured carried cavalry charge CHARLOTTE BRONTË Chesapeake Chevrette Ciudad Rodrigo Cochrane Collingwood column command Conflans crew Crown 8vo daring dashed deck defence desperate Didon ditch drifted enemy England English fell fierce fight fire fire-ships flag flagship flame flank flung fought French fleet French ship Frenchman frigate furious gallant Guard guns Hawke Hermione hill huge infantry instantly La Haye Sainte leaped lieutenant light division Lord meanwhile miles muskets Napier Napoleon naval Nelson night officers Peninsular war quarter-deck Quebec reached regiment ridge round sailors sails Santissima Trinidad Shannon shot shout side Sidney Smith siege signal slope soldiers Soult Spaniards Spanish squadron stern storm swept swift tempest thunder Toulon Trafalgar troops tumult victory watched Waterloo Wellington whole Wolfe wounded yards
Populaire passages
Pagina 23 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Pagina 99 - Her home is on the deep. With thunders from her native oak She quells the floods below — As they roar on the shore, When the stormy winds do blow ; When the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow.
Pagina 249 - Front, flank, and rear, the squadrons sweep To break the Scottish circle deep That fought around their king. But yet, though thick the shafts as snow, Though charging knights like whirlwinds go, Though billmen ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring; The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood The instant that he fell.
Pagina 321 - May the Great God, whom I worship, grant to my Country, and for the benefit of Europe in general, a great and glorious Victory; and may no misconduct in any one tarnish it; and may humanity after Victory be the predominant feature in the British Fleet.
Pagina 317 - Among the wise and the bold . Let the bell be toll'd : And a reverent people behold The towering car, the sable steeds : Bright let it be with its blazon'd deeds, Dark in its funeral fold.
Pagina 223 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms — the day Battle's magnificently stern array...
Pagina 217 - Nelson and the North, Sing the glorious day's renown, When to battle fierce came forth All the might of Denmark's crown, And her arms along the deep proudly shone ; By each gun the lighted brand In a bold determined hand, And the Prince of all the land Led them on.
Pagina 243 - The lancer couch'd his ruthless spear, And hurrying as to havoc near, The cohorts' eagles flew. In one dark torrent, broad and strong, The advancing onset roll'd along, Forth harbinger'd by fierce acclaim, That, from the shroud of smoke and flame, Peal'd wildly the imperial name.
Pagina 175 - We have fed our sea for a thousand years And she calls us, still unfed, Though there's never a wave of all her waves But marks our English dead: We have strawed our best to the weed's unrests To the shark and the sheering gull. If blood be the price of admiralty, Lord God, we ha