 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1841 - 894 páginas
...terrible cne%, my : and then was seen with what a strength and majesty the Brih ish soldier tights. In vain did Soult by voice and gesture animate his...veterans, extricating themselves from the crowded column, sacrifice their lives to gain time and space for the mass to open out on such a fair field... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1843 - 524 páginas
...History of the Peninsular War, " they closed on their terrible enemy ; and then was seen with what strength and majesty the British soldier fights. In...veterans, extricating themselves from the crowded column, sacrifice their lives to gain time and space for the mass to open out on such a fair field... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1843 - 1252 páginas
...enemy; and then was infantry seen wjth what a strength and majesty the British gams the _ " . day. soldier fights. In vain did Soult by voice and gesture...veterans, extricating themselves from the crowded column, sacrifice their lives to gain time and space for the mass to open out on such a fair field... | |
 | Andrew Redman Bonar - 1845 - 472 páginas
...iron tempest, reeled an) staggered like sinking ships. Snddenly and stern) recovering, they closed on their terrible enemies and then was seen with what a strength and maje^ the British soldier fights. " In vain did Soult, by voice and gesture, an mate his Frenchmen... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1846 - 738 páginas
...says Colonel Napier, in strains of sublime military eloquence, ' they closed on their terrible enemy ; and then was seen with what a strength and majesty...hardiest veterans, extricating themselves from the erowded column, saerifice their lives to gain time and space for the mass to open out on such a fair... | |
 | J. T. Headley - 1846 - 400 páginas
...it. Those brave British soldiers closed sternly on their foes as in a death struggle. Says Napier, "In vain did Soult, by voice and gesture, animate...crowded columns, sacrifice their lives to gain time for the mass to open out on such a fair field ; in vain did the mass itself bear up, and fiercely striving,... | |
 | Joel Tyler Headley - 1846 - 402 páginas
...it. Those brave British soldiers closed sternly on their foes as in a death struggle. Says Napier, "In vain did Soult, by voice and gesture, animate...crowded columns, sacrifice their lives to gain time for the mass to open out on such a fair field ; in vain did the mass itself bear up, and fiercely striving,... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1846 - 772 páginas
...their terrible enemy ; and then was eeen with what a strength and majesty the British soldier lights. In vain did Soult by voice and gesture animate his...veterans, extricating themselves from the crowded column, sacrifice, their lives to gain time and .«pace for the mass to open out on such a fair field... | |
 | Thomas Smart Hughes - 1846 - 500 páginas
...recovering, they closed on their terrible enemies; and then was seen with what strength and majesty a British soldier fights: in vain did Soult, by voice...his Frenchmen ; in vain did the hardiest veterans, 12 Now governor, geneial of British India. >'•'• Napier, vol. iii. p. 63y, extricating themselves... | |
 | William Francis Patrick Napier - 1867 - 470 páginas
...tempest, reeled and staggered like sinking ships ; but suddenly and sternly recovering they closed on their terrible enemies, and then was seen with...majesty the British soldier fights. In vain did Soult with voice and gesture animate his Frenchmen, in vain did the hardiest veterans break from the crowded... | |
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In vain did Soult, by voice and gesture, animate his Frenchmen ; in vain did the hardiest veterans, extricating themselves from the crowded columns, sacrifice their lives to gain time for the mass to open out on such a fair field ; in vain did the mass... 
