| John Philippart - 1820 - 480 ページ
...destructive fire of musketry on both flanks of the approach to the top of the narrow ridge of the curtain. Every thing that the most determined bravery could...attempt was repeatedly tried in vain by the troops, who Merc brought forward from the trenches in succession. No man out-lived the attempt to gain the ridge... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1823 - 854 ページ
...destructive fire of musketry on both flanks of the approach to the top of the narrow ridge of the curtain. Every thing that the most determined bravery could...tried in vain by the troops, who were brought forward from the trenches in succession. No man outlived the attempt to gain the ridge : and though the slope... | |
| David Stewart - 1825 - 596 ページ
...interesting, as tending to show the character and habits of Highland soldiers as contrasted with those of former times. The siege of St Sebastian, which...General Graham, — confiding in the perfection to which the artillery had been brought, and in the unshaken steadiness of the troops, — with admirable... | |
| Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - 1838 - 696 ページ
...destructive fire of musketry on both flanks of the approach to the top of the narrow ridge »f the curtain. 'Every thing that the most determined bravery could...tried in vain by the troops, who were brought forward from the trenches in succession. No man outlived the attempt to gain the ridge: and though the slope... | |
| Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - 1838 - 806 ページ
...destructive fire of musketry on both flanks of the approach to the top of the narrow ridge of the curtain. 'Every thing that the most determined bravery could...tried in vain by the troops, who were brought forward from the trenches in succession. No man outlived the attempt to gain the ridge: and though the slope... | |
| Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - 1838 - 692 ページ
...destructive fire of musketry on both flanks of the approach to the top of the narrow ridge of the curtain. 'Every thing that the most determined bravery could...tried in vain by the troops, who were brought forward from the trenches in succession. No man outlived the attempt to gain the ridge: and though the slope... | |
| James Browne - 1838 - 532 ページ
...exertions to force the breach, and every thing that bravery could attempt was repeatedly tried by the men who were brought forward in succession from the trenches ; but each time, on attaining the summit, all who attempted to remain were destroyed by a heavy fire from the entrenched ruins within, so that... | |
| William Hamilton Maxwell - 1852 - 562 ページ
...of musketry on both flanks of the approach to the top of the narrow ridge of the curtain. Everything that the most determined bravery could attempt was...tried in vain by the troops, who were brought forward from the trenches in succession. No man outlived the attempt to gain the ridge ; and though the slope... | |
| Edward Baines - 1855 - 618 ページ
...destructive fire of musketry on both flanks of the approach to the top of the narrow ridge of the curtain. fe o - from the trenches in succession. No man outlived the attempt to gain the ridge ; yet a secure lodgment... | |
| William Hamilton Maxwell - 1858 - 310 ページ
...musketry on both flanks of the approach to the top of the narrow ridge of the curtain. " Everything that the most determined bravery could attempt was...tried in vain by the troops, who were brought forward from the trenches in succession. No man outlived the attempt to gain the ridge : and though the slope... | |
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