They Saw it Happen: An Anthology of Eyewitness's Accounts of Events in British History, 1689-1897, Volum 3Blackwell, 1958 - 311 sider |
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Side 39
... fire thundering out as regularly as on parade , and the French horse fell back repulsed . ' This letter from one of their officers illustrates exactly the method and effect of this platoon - fire in the last battle in which an English ...
... fire thundering out as regularly as on parade , and the French horse fell back repulsed . ' This letter from one of their officers illustrates exactly the method and effect of this platoon - fire in the last battle in which an English ...
Side 80
... fire under those circumstances would prove me to be no officer . While I was thus speaking , one of the soldiers having received a severe blow with a stick , stepped a little on one side and instantly fired , on which turning to and ...
... fire under those circumstances would prove me to be no officer . While I was thus speaking , one of the soldiers having received a severe blow with a stick , stepped a little on one side and instantly fired , on which turning to and ...
Side 86
... fire . The others were very shortly afterwards posted to the north and south of him , at small distances asunder , and began their cannon- ade . They were all fixed to the stations allotted them in a masterly manner . Our batteries ...
... fire . The others were very shortly afterwards posted to the north and south of him , at small distances asunder , and began their cannon- ade . They were all fixed to the stations allotted them in a masterly manner . Our batteries ...
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Admiral appeared arms army attack ball battle became boats boys British cannon Captain Hardy carriage cavalry Chartist cheers Colonel crowd dead deck Disraeli dress Duke of Wellington E. F. Benson Edinburgh Review enemy enemy's England English extract eyes fire fleet followed French Further Reading gave gentlemen George George II Greville Memoirs guard guns hand head heard Horace Walpole horse hour House infantry John John Woolman killed King King's Lady letter Lieutenant London looked Lord Hervey Lord Nelson Lord Palmerston Lord Raglan Lord Wellington Lordship marched minutes morning Murray never night o'clock officers Oxford passed person poor Prince prisoners Queen Queen Victoria regiment returned round Rovers Royal seemed sent ship shot shout side signal soldiers soon Source speech squadron streets struck told took town troops victory walked Whig whole wounded