The Light Brigade in Spain: Or, The Last Fight of Sir John MooreG. P. Putnam's sons, 1904 - 410 Seiten |
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... Frenchmen , and I don't care if Boney comes with a million . " " I admire your confidence and spirit , Mr. Dugdale , " said Vaughan dryly . 66 Though I'm hanged if I know what we're fighting Boney in Spain for , " added Dugdale . " Not ...
... Frenchmen , and I don't care if Boney comes with a million . " " I admire your confidence and spirit , Mr. Dugdale , " said Vaughan dryly . 66 Though I'm hanged if I know what we're fighting Boney in Spain for , " added Dugdale . " Not ...
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... Frenchmen started back , looked fearfully around , and then , unmindful of their dead comrade on the ground , set spurs ... Frenchman on the road , and bring him here for dog's burial . " 66 ' No doubt , no doubt , Padre , " said Antonio ...
... Frenchmen started back , looked fearfully around , and then , unmindful of their dead comrade on the ground , set spurs ... Frenchman on the road , and bring him here for dog's burial . " 66 ' No doubt , no doubt , Padre , " said Antonio ...
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... Frenchmen have stripped us bare , and are verily capable of eating our children . " " Come , landlord , " said Jack ... Frenchman knocked a hole in mine last night . " Jack sat down on a bench within the bar - room , and listened to the ...
... Frenchmen have stripped us bare , and are verily capable of eating our children . " " Come , landlord , " said Jack ... Frenchman knocked a hole in mine last night . " Jack sat down on a bench within the bar - room , and listened to the ...
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... Frenchmen could not hear or understand . Jack went up to one of the men and asked him to bring out his mule . The ostler turned from the horse he was grooming and looked at Jack with an air of incivility , if not downright insolence ...
... Frenchmen could not hear or understand . Jack went up to one of the men and asked him to bring out his mule . The ostler turned from the horse he was grooming and looked at Jack with an air of incivility , if not downright insolence ...
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... Frenchman , an enemy of his country , except under compulsion , and it was now evident to Jack that he was regarded ... Frenchmen about the inn to make it safe for him to enter into long explanations . Then another thought came which ...
... Frenchman , an enemy of his country , except under compulsion , and it was now evident to Jack that he was regarded ... Frenchmen about the inn to make it safe for him to enter into long explanations . Then another thought came which ...
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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...