The Light Brigade in Spain: Or, The Last Fight of Sir John MooreG. P. Putnam's sons, 1904 - 410 Seiten |
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... roads , and wheeled round into the high- way towards Salamanca , he saw , some hundred yards ahead , several dark forms on both sides of the road , creep- ing along with stealthy movements in the same direction . Carrying his gaze ...
... roads , and wheeled round into the high- way towards Salamanca , he saw , some hundred yards ahead , several dark forms on both sides of the road , creep- ing along with stealthy movements in the same direction . Carrying his gaze ...
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... road . Jack clicked the lock oi his pistol . After an instant's hesitation the men turned in a body and vanished into the darkness . " Many thanks ! " said the pedestrian . " I was never more glad to see a British officer . Those ...
... road . Jack clicked the lock oi his pistol . After an instant's hesitation the men turned in a body and vanished into the darkness . " Many thanks ! " said the pedestrian . " I was never more glad to see a British officer . Those ...
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... roads were passable for wheeled transport . All the guns might have come by Guarda and saved a hundred miles ; but the Portuguese engineers assured me the road was too difficult . Farther north there is another division under Sir David ...
... roads were passable for wheeled transport . All the guns might have come by Guarda and saved a hundred miles ; but the Portuguese engineers assured me the road was too difficult . Farther north there is another division under Sir David ...
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... out of the town as quickly as you can , and wait for me some two miles along the Valladolid road . Don't say a word to anyone about me , mind . ” " Very good , sir ! " An Hidalgo Giles dropped the boots and departed on his 46.
... out of the town as quickly as you can , and wait for me some two miles along the Valladolid road . Don't say a word to anyone about me , mind . ” " Very good , sir ! " An Hidalgo Giles dropped the boots and departed on his 46.
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... road to Medina del Campo where Giles was patiently waiting with the mule . The big private was sitting on a heap of stones , holding the reins with one hand while with the other he flung pebbles across the road in idle preoccupation ...
... road to Medina del Campo where Giles was patiently waiting with the mule . The big private was sitting on a heap of stones , holding the reins with one hand while with the other he flung pebbles across the road in idle preoccupation ...
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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...