 | Walter Scott - 1812 - 626 páginas
...eight prisoners with their horses. The two women carried each a pistol, and one of than, by name Marta Fraile, saved her husband, by shooting a dragoon who was about to attack him on one side. The French general, to whom elpence of time was of more consequence than any cost of lives, pressed... | |
 | 1812 - 620 páginas
...eight prisoners with their horses. The two women carried each a pistol, and one of them, by name Marta Fraile, saved her husband, by shooting a dragoon who was about to attack him on one side. The French general, to whom expence of time was of more consequence than any cost of lives, pressed... | |
 | 1812 - 624 páginas
...spirit of Scanderbeg, instead of contenting himself with merely effecting his own retreat, chargeda post of cavalry, routed them, and carried away eight prisoners with their horses. The two women carried each a pistol, and one of them, by name Marta Fraile, saved her husband, by shooting a dragoon... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1812 - 628 páginas
...they took their wives behind them : they sallied out, and their leader, in the spirit of Scanderbeg, instead of contenting himself with merely effecting his own retreat, charged a post of cavalry, routedthem, and carried away eight prisoners with their horses. The two women carried each a pistol,... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1827 - 836 páginas
...men took their wives behind them : they sallied out, and their leader, in the spirit of Scanderbeg, instead of contenting himself with merely effecting...were armed with pistols, and one of them, by name Marta Fraile, saved her husband, by shooting a dragoon who was about to attack him on one side. state... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1828 - 622 páginas
...men took their wives behind them ; they sallied out, and their leader, in the spirit of Scanderbeg, instead of contenting himself with merely effecting...them, and carried away eight prisoners with their jhorses. The two women were armed with pistols, and one of them, by name Marta Fraile, CHAP. XXXI.... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1828 - 576 páginas
...jjorses. The two women were armed with pistols, and one of them, by name Marta Fraile, CHAP. XXXI. saved her husband, by shooting a dragoon who was about to attack him on one side. July. The British army meantime, though it could state of the render no assistance, was far from being... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - 1845 - 304 páginas
...men took their wives behind them ; they sallied out, and their leader, in the spirit of Scanderbeg, instead of contenting himself with merely effecting...dragoon who was about to attack him on one side."* in a summons, desiring Herrasti to choose " between an honourable capitulation, and the terrible vengeance... | |
 | Great Britain. Army, William Hamilton Maxwell - 1847 - 560 páginas
...men, took their wives behind them ; they sallied out, and their leader, in the spirit of Scanderbeg, instead of contenting himself with merely effecting...dragoon who was about to attack him on one side." CIUDAD RODRIQO. 153 Ney, it is said, annoyed at the obstinacy with which the fortress held out, until... | |
 | Charles William Vane Marquis of Londonderry - 1848 - 470 páginas
...men, took their wives behind them. They sallied out, and their leader in the spirit of Bcanderberg, instead of contenting himself with merely effecting...of them, by name Maria Fraile, saved her husband by •hooting a dragoon who was about to attack him on one side." — Southey. force did not exceed 30... | |
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Plaza ; the two of his company who were married men took their wives behind them ; they sallied out, and their leader, in the spirit of Scanderbeg, instead of contenting himself with merely effecting his own retreat, charged a post of cavalry, routed... 
