 | 1834 - 614 pagina’s
...ascent was covered with loose planks, studded with sharp iron points, on which the feet of the foremost being set, the planks moved, and the unhappy soldiers,...on the spikes, rolled down upon the ranks behind. There the Frenchmen, shouting at the success of their stratagem, and leaping forward, plied their shot... | |
 | 1834 - 604 pagina’s
...ascent was covered with loose planks, otndded with sharp iron points, on which the feet of the foremost being set, the planks moved, and the unhappy soldiers,...on the spikes, rolled down upon the ranks behind. There the Frenchmen, shouting at the success of their stratagem, and leaping forward, plied their shot... | |
 | 1834 - 734 pagina’s
...ascent was covered with loose planks studded with sharp iron points, on which the feet of the foremost being set, the planks moved, and the unhappy soldiers, falling forward on the 1 spikes, rolled down upon the ranks behind. Then the Frenchmen, shouting at the success of their stratagem,... | |
 | Memoirs - 1835 - 460 pagina’s
...studded with sharp iron points, on which, the feet of the foremost being set, the planks moved, and 164 the unhappy soldiers, falling forward on the spikes,...rolled down upon the ranks behind. Then the Frenchmen, exulting at the success of their stratagem, and leaping forward, plied their shot with terrible rapidity... | |
 | Andrew Redman Bonar - 1845 - 472 pagina’s
...ascent was covered with loose planks, stndded with sharp iron points, on which the feet of the foremost being set the planks moved, and the unhappy soldiers, falling forward on the pikes, rolled down upon the ranks behind. Then the Frenchmen, shouting at the success of this stratagem,... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1847 - 850 pagina’s
...ascent was covered with loose planks, studded with sharp iron points, on which the feet of the foremost being set, the planks moved, and the unhappy soldiers...had several muskets, and each musket, in addition to the ordinary charge, contained a small cylinder of wood stuck full of leaden slugs, which scattered... | |
 | T. M. Hughes - 1847 - 382 pagina’s
...ascent was covered with loose planks, studded with sharp iron points, on which the feet of the foremost being set the planks moved, and the unhappy soldiers,...on the spikes, rolled down upon the ranks behind." (Ibid.) " Two hours spent in these vain efforts convinced the soldiers that the breach of the Trinidad... | |
 | Dawson William Turner - 1864 - 178 pagina’s
...ascent was covered with loose planks, studded with sharp iron points, on which the feet of the foremost being set the planks moved, and the unhappy soldiers, falling forward on the spikes, rolled down npon the ranks behind. Then the Frenchmen, shouting at the success of their stratagem, and leaping... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 860 pagina’s
...loose planks studded with iron points, on which the feet of the foremost being set, the planks slipped, O n + trie success of their stratagem, and leaping forward, plied their shot with terrible rapidity, for... | |
 | Peninsular veteran - 1878 - 264 pagina’s
...ascent was covered with loose planks studded with sharp iron points, on which the feet of the foremost being set, the planks moved, and the unhappy soldiers,...rolled down upon the ranks behind. Then the Frenchmen, exulting at the success of their stratagem, and leaping forward, plied their shot with terrible rapidity... | |
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... on both sides, and firmly fixed in ponderous beams, which were chained together and set deep in the ruins ; and for ten feet in front the ascent was covered with loose planks studded with sharp iron points, on which the feet of the foremost being... 
