 | William Hamilton Maxwell - 1845 - 654 pagina’s
...resumed his operations on the 6th of August, marching on the capital by the route of Segovia, f * " The hill of La Serna offered a frightful spectacle...bodies. A few minutes only had the combat lasted, and aboTe a hundred had fallen; fifty-one werekilled outright; and in several places man and horse had... | |
 | William Francis Patrick Napier - 1852 - 570 pagina’s
...the military truth, — that cavalry are not able to cope with veteran infantry, save by surprise. The hill of La Serna offered a frightful spectacle of the power of the musket. The track of the Germans was marked by their huge bodies. A few minutes only had the combat lasted... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1898 - 872 pagina’s
...Three squares were broken and 1,400 prisoners captured. Yet a great price was paid for this triumph. ' The hill of La Serna offered a frightful spectacle...track of the Germans was marked by their huge bodies. ... In several places man and horse had died simultaneously, and so suddenly that, falling together... | |
 | Sir Cornelius Francis Clery - 1875 - 364 pagina’s
...that cavalry alone are not able to cope with veteran infantry save by surprise. The hill of La Serena offered a frightful spectacle of the power of the musket, that queen of weapons.' If this verdict be true of the old fire-arm, how indisputable it has been rendered by the introduction... | |
 | James Grant - 1880 - 620 pagina’s
...twenties; and though the squares effected their retreat, Bock made many (if not nearly all) prisoners. "The hill of La Serna offered a frightful spectacle of the power of the musket. The track of the Germans was marked by their huge bodies. A few minutes only had the combat lasted,... | |
 | William Francis Patrick Napier - 1878 - 654 pagina’s
...conviction of this military truth, that cavalry are not able to cope with veteran infantry save by surprise. The hill of La Serna offered a frightful spectacle...A few minutes only had the combat lasted and above ioo had fallen ; 5i were killed outright ; and in several places man and horse had died simultaneously,... | |
 | Edward Fraser - 1913 - 478 pagina’s
...paid by the victors. Napier describes the field of battle as he saw it after the combat was over : " The track of the Germans was marked by their huge bodies. A few minutes only had the contest lasted, and above 100 had fallen — fifty-one were killed outright. In several places man... | |
 | 1838 - 608 pagina’s
...conviction of this military truth, that cavalry are not able to cope with veteran infantry save by surprise. The hill of La Serna offered a frightful spectacle...the combat lasted, and above a hundred had fallen." It is well for Colonel Napier that his fame rests upon too firm and brilliant a foundation, to be obscured... | |
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The hill of La Serna offered a frightful spectacle of the power of the musket, that queen of weapons, and the track of the Germans was marked by their huge bodies. A few minutes only had the combat lasted and above a hundred had fallen... 