 | Monthly literary register - 1811 - 766 sider
...same time his right wing stood on the plain, on the edge of the wood, within cannon shot. A retreat in the face of such an enemy, already within reach of the eaiy communication by the sea-beach, must have involved the whole allied army in all the danger of... | |
 | 1880 - 632 sider
...the same time his right wing stood on the plain on the edge of the wood within cannon shot. A retreat in the face of such an enemy, already within reach...unavoidable confusion of the different corps arriving on the narrow ridge of Bermeja nearly at the same time. Trusting to the known heroism of the British troops,... | |
 | 1811 - 768 sider
...same time his right wing stood on the plain, on the edge of the wood, within cannon-shot. A retreat in the face of such an Enemy, already within reach of the easy communication by the sea-beach, must have involved the whole allied army in all the danger of being attacked during the... | |
 | 1811 - 840 sider
...same lime his right wing stood on the plain, on the edge of the wood, within cannon-shot. A retreat in the face of such an enemy, already within reach of the, easy communication by the sea-beach, must hare involved the whole allied army in all th« danger of being attacked during the... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1811 - 844 sider
...same time lii.t right wing stood on iln- plain, on the edge of the wood, within cannon-shot. A retreat in the face of such an enemy, already within reach of the easy communication by the «»ab«acb, must have involved the whole allied army in all the danger of being attacked during the... | |
 | 1811 - 724 sider
...rearli of the easy communication by the sealieaeh, must'have involved the whole alii -d army iu all t'uc danger of being attacked during the unavoidable confusion of the different corps arriving on tlie uarr*w ridge of Bei'iucsa nearly at the some time. Trusting to the known heroism Of British troops,... | |
 | 1813 - 744 sider
...same time his right wing stood on the plain at the edge of the wood, within cannon shot. A retreat ir. the face of such an enemy, already within reach of the easy communication by the sea bank, must have involved the whole of the allied army in all the danger of being attacked during the... | |
 | 1812 - 1038 sider
...same time his right wing stood on the plain, on the edge of the Wood, within cannon-shot. A retreat in the face of such an enemy, already within reach of the easy commuti'cation by the sea-be-.ich, must have involved the whole allied army in ail the danger of being... | |
 | 1813 - 532 sider
...countermarching had been to support the troops in maintaining the heights ; " but a retreat," he says, " in the face of such an enemy (already within reach...unavoidable confusion of the different corps arriving on the narrow ridge of Bermeja nearly at the same time." Trusting, therefore, to the courage of his men,... | |
 | 1813 - 544 sider
...countermarching had been to support the troops in maintaining the heights ; " but a retreat," he says, " in the face of such an enemy ( already within reach...involved the whole allied army in all the danger of being CHAP. 11.] 295 attacked during the unavoidable confusion of the different corps arriving on the narrow... | |
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But before we could get ourselves quite disentangled from the wood, the troops on the Barrosa hill were seen returning from it, while the enemy's left wing was rapidly ascending. At the same time, his right wing stood on the plain, on the edge of the... 
