 | William Francis Patrick Napier - 1833 - 740 pagina’s
...retreat. Cole's fuzileers, flanked by a battalion of the Lusitanian legion under colonel Hawkshawe, soon mounted the hill, drove off the lancers, recovered...enemy's heavy masses, which were increasing and pressing onwards as to an assured victory : they wavered, hesitated, and then vomiting forth a storm of fire,... | |
 | 1833 - 610 pagina’s
...Cole in person led the Fusileer brigade up the heights. " Such a gallant Hue issuing from the midst of smoke, and rapidly separating itself from the confused...broken multitude, startled the enemy's heavy masses, * Concluded from p, I'M. which were increasing and pressing forward as to an assured victory ; they... | |
 | 1831 - 652 pagina’s
...the lancers, recovered the captured guns, and appeared on the right of Houghton's brigade, exactly as Abercrombie passed it on the left. ' Such a gallant...enemy's heavy masses, which were increasing and pressing onwards as to an assured victory ; they wavered, hesitated, and then vomiting forth a storm of fire,... | |
 | William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1831 - 906 pagina’s
...the lancers, recovered the captured guns, and appeared on the right of Houghton's brigade, exactly as Abercrombie passed it on the left. Such a gallant...enemy's heavy masses, which were increasing and pressing onwards as to an assured victory : they wavered, hesitated, and then vomiting forth a storm of fire,... | |
 | Memoirs - 1835 - 460 pagina’s
...dispersed the Lancers, recovered the captured guns, and soon appeared on the right of Houghton's brigade. Such a gallant line, issuing from the midst of the...enemy's heavy masses, which were increasing and pressing onwards as to an assured victory : they wavered, hesitated, and then vomiting forth a storm of fire,... | |
 | Thomas Smart Hughes - 1836 - 348 pagina’s
...language that demands insertion, while it defies emulation : — ' Such a gallant line,' he says, ' issuing from the midst of the smoke, and rapidly separating...multitude, startled the enemy's heavy masses, which were in creasing and pressing onwards, as to an assured victory : they wavered, hesitated ; and then, vomiting... | |
 | Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - 1839 - 890 pagina’s
...lancers, recovered five of the captured guns and one colour, and appeared on the right of Houghloti's brigade precisely as Abercrombie passed it on the...enemy's heavy masses, which were increasing and pressing onwards as to an assured victory : they wavered, hesitated, and then vomiting forth a storm of lire,... | |
 | Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - 1839 - 900 pagina’s
...colour, and appeared on the right of Itoughlon's brigade precisely as Abercrombie passed it on (he left. Such a gallant line, issuing from the midst...enemy's heavy masses, which were increasing and pressing onwards as to an assured victory : they wavered, hesitated, and then vomiting forth a storm of tire,... | |
 | William Francis Patrick Napier - 1840 - 740 pagina’s
...reserves were coming forward to reinforce the front column of the French, the remnant of Houghton s brigade could no longer maintain its ground, the field...enemy's heavy masses, which were increasing and pressing c v f p ' onwards as to an assured victory : they wavered, —^,-— hesitated, and then vomiting forth... | |
 | Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - 1842 - 454 pagina’s
...under Colonel Hawkshawe, soon mounted the hill, drove off the lancers, recovered five of the caplured guns and one colour, and appeared on the right of...from the midst of the smoke, and rapidly separating ilself from the confused and broken multitude, startled the enemy's heavy masses, which were increasing... | |
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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 masses, which were increasing and pressing onwards as to an assured victory; they wavered, hesitated, and... 
