The Light Brigade in Spain: Or, The Last Fight of Sir John MooreG. P. Putnam's sons, 1904 - 410 Seiten |
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... British Brigade of Light Infantry , consisting of the 43rd Light Infantry , 52nd Light Infantry , and the 95th Rifles , which were trained together as a war - brigade at Shorn- cliffe Camp in the years 1803-1805 , just a century ago ...
... British Brigade of Light Infantry , consisting of the 43rd Light Infantry , 52nd Light Infantry , and the 95th Rifles , which were trained together as a war - brigade at Shorn- cliffe Camp in the years 1803-1805 , just a century ago ...
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... British army armed with rifles at the period of the Peninsular War , all others carrying long smooth - bore muskets , known as " Brown Bess " , with long three - sided bayonets . The Baker rifle fired with precision up to 300 yards ...
... British army armed with rifles at the period of the Peninsular War , all others carrying long smooth - bore muskets , known as " Brown Bess " , with long three - sided bayonets . The Baker rifle fired with precision up to 300 yards ...
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... British army only about 30,000 strong , conceived the bold project of marching on Salamanca , and thus threatening Napoleon's " line of communications " with France - whence he drew all his supplies and ammunition . The effect was ...
... British army only about 30,000 strong , conceived the bold project of marching on Salamanca , and thus threatening Napoleon's " line of communications " with France - whence he drew all his supplies and ammunition . The effect was ...
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... British forces at the commencement of Moore's retreat from Sahagun . 130 2. Plan of the Battle of Corunna . 3. Plan of the City of Saragossa . 4. Plan of the Plaza Alvarez District The plans of Corunna and Saragossa are copied , by kind ...
... British forces at the commencement of Moore's retreat from Sahagun . 130 2. Plan of the Battle of Corunna . 3. Plan of the City of Saragossa . 4. Plan of the Plaza Alvarez District The plans of Corunna and Saragossa are copied , by kind ...
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... British guineas you Dons have been pocketing for I don't know how long ? Tell me that ! What have you got to show for ' em , eh ? -that's what I want to know . Here are we , without a stiver to our name , no pay for weeks , and no ...
... British guineas you Dons have been pocketing for I don't know how long ? Tell me that ! What have you got to show for ' em , eh ? -that's what I want to know . Here are we , without a stiver to our name , no pay for weeks , and no ...
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afrancesado Antonio army asked Astorga attack barricade Bembibre British Calatayud Captain O'Hare Cariñena Casa Alvarez Casa Vega cavalry Colonel commissary Corporal Wilkes Corunna Coso cried dark despatch Don Casimir Don Cristobal Don Fernan Don Miguel door dragoons Dugdale enemy escape eyes face fell fight fire followed French Frenchman Giles Grampus guerrilleros guns hand head heard hombre hope horse hour Jack's José Juanita La Romana lady landlord letter looked Lumsden Marshal Lannes Miguel Priego miles minutes monsieur mule musket night officers Padre Consolacion Paget Palafox passed Pepito Pomeroy quarter regiment ride road rode round ruins rush Salamanca Santa Engracia Santiago Sass Saragossa Señor Señorita sentry shouted side siege Sir John Moore smile soldiers Soult sound Spain Spaniards Spanish stood street tell Tio Jorge Tobar troopers turned Valdepeñas Valladolid Vallejo voice wall word yards
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 187 - I hope the people of England will be satisfied!" "I hope my country will do me justice!
Seite 187 - well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with "me.
Seite 8 - I can possibly avoid it, for there is none other that I like so much, and none else so much deserves it ; for we were the light regiment of the Light Division, and fired the first and last shot in almost every battle, siege, and skirmish, in which the army was engaged during the war.
Seite 161 - And if the enemy are in possession of Bembibre, which I believe, they have got a rare prize. They have taken or cut to pieces many hundred drunken British cowards — for none but unprincipled cowards would get drunk in the presence, nay in the very sight of the enemies of their country: and sooner than survive the disgrace of such infamous conduct, I hope that the first cannon-ball fired by the enemy may take me in the head...
Seite 8 - ... and I love them as I hope to do my better half, (when I come to be divided.) Wherever we were, they were ; and although the nature of our arm generally gave us more employment in the way of skirmishing, yet, whenever it came to a pinch, independent of a suitable mixture of them among us, we had only to look behind to see a line, in which we might place a degree of confidence, almost equal to our hopes in Heaven ; nor were we ever disappointed...