The great battles of the British army1869 |
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... Duke Robert and his brother Henry I. fought against each other for the continental dominions of the family , the king owed his decisive victory to his English army . " This battle , " observes old John Speed , " was fought , and ...
... Duke Robert and his brother Henry I. fought against each other for the continental dominions of the family , the king owed his decisive victory to his English army . " This battle , " observes old John Speed , " was fought , and ...
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... Duke of Marlborough . But it was under Edward III . , whose long reign ex- tended from the year 1327 to the year 1377 , that our armies were spread far over the continent , and that the nation was famed by almost fabulous or incredible ...
... Duke of Marlborough . But it was under Edward III . , whose long reign ex- tended from the year 1327 to the year 1377 , that our armies were spread far over the continent , and that the nation was famed by almost fabulous or incredible ...
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... Duke of Normandy had fallen upon the gallant Earl of Derby , and was endeavouring , with the Hower of the French army , to drive the English from Guienne . One of Edward's principal objects was to create an alarm which should draw the ...
... Duke of Normandy had fallen upon the gallant Earl of Derby , and was endeavouring , with the Hower of the French army , to drive the English from Guienne . One of Edward's principal objects was to create an alarm which should draw the ...
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... Duke of Normandy from Guienne , where the Earl of Derby was almost reduced to extremities , notwith- standing the gallant assistance of Sir Walter Manny , who had removed a small body from Brittany to Gascony . As soon as the French ...
... Duke of Normandy from Guienne , where the Earl of Derby was almost reduced to extremities , notwith- standing the gallant assistance of Sir Walter Manny , who had removed a small body from Brittany to Gascony . As soon as the French ...
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... duke was slain , with most of his knights . The Black Prince then charged a body of German cavalry , who were soon put to flight . But even here it seems to have been rather the arrow of the English yeo- manry than the lance of the ...
... duke was slain , with most of his knights . The Black Prince then charged a body of German cavalry , who were soon put to flight . But even here it seems to have been rather the arrow of the English yeo- manry than the lance of the ...
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Seite 327 - In vain did Soult with voice and gesture animate his Frenchmen, in vain did the hardiest veterans break from the crowded columns and sacrifice their lives to gain time for the mass to open out on such a fair field ; in vain did the mass itself bear up, and, fiercely striving, fire indiscriminately...
Seite 284 - I hope the People of England will be satisfied! - I hope my Country will do me justice!
Seite 286 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, - And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.
Seite 414 - Macdonald, and afterwards of Colonel Home ; and I am happy to add, that it was maintained throughout the day with the utmost gallantry by these brave troops, notwithstanding the repeated efforts of large bodies of the enemy to obtain possession of it. This attack upon the right of our centre was...
Seite 283 - It is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me ;" and in that manner, so becoming to a soldier, Moore was borne from the fight.
Seite 190 - I begged the general officers to consult together for the public utility. They are all of opinion, that (as more ships and provisions have now got above the town) they should try, by conveying up a corps of four or five thousand men (which is nearly the whole strength of the army, after the Points of Levi and Orleans are left in a proper state of defence), to draw the enemy...
Seite 423 - ... express to you the regret and sorrow with which I look round me, and contemplate the loss which I have sustained, particularly in your brother. The glory resulting from such actions, so dearly bought, is no consolation to me, and I cannot suggest it as any to you and his friends ; but I hope that it may be expected that this last one has been so decisive, as that no doubt remains that our exertions and our individual losses will be rewarded by the early attainment of our just object. It is then...
Seite 191 - In this situation, there is such a choice of difficulties that I own myself at a loss how to determine. The affairs of Great Britain, I know, require the most vigorous measures ; but then the courage of a handful of brave men should be exerted only where there is some hope of a favourable event.
Seite 327 - ... by the incessant vigour of the attack to the farthest edge of the hill. In vain did the French reserves...
Seite 478 - Sutlej with its infantry and artillery. I considered it probable that some act of aggression would be committed by parties of plunderers, for the purpose of compelling the British Government to interfere, to which course the Sikh chiefs knew I was most averse ; but...