Adventures in the Rifle Brigade in the Peninsula, France and the Netherlands: From 1809 to 1815T. and W. Boone, 1830 - 351 pagini |
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... cavalry and infantry ; the wind blowing so strong , that the long tail of each particular horse stuck as stiffly out in the face of the one behind , as if the whole had been strung upon a cable and dragged by the leaders . We turned out ...
... cavalry and infantry ; the wind blowing so strong , that the long tail of each particular horse stuck as stiffly out in the face of the one behind , as if the whole had been strung upon a cable and dragged by the leaders . We turned out ...
Pagina 29
... cavalry , some in- fantry , and they seemed such respectable re- presentatives of their spectral predecessors , that , in the haze of the following morning , we thought that they had been joined by some well - fed ones from the rear ...
... cavalry , some in- fantry , and they seemed such respectable re- presentatives of their spectral predecessors , that , in the haze of the following morning , we thought that they had been joined by some well - fed ones from the rear ...
Pagina 69
... cavalry on the right , and again compelled to fall back ; but , fortunately , at this moment we were reinforced by the arrival of the second brigade , and , with their aid , we once more stormed their position and secured the well ...
... cavalry on the right , and again compelled to fall back ; but , fortunately , at this moment we were reinforced by the arrival of the second brigade , and , with their aid , we once more stormed their position and secured the well ...
Pagina 75
... cavalry , and , while we were retiring through it with the order and precision of a common field - day , they kept dan- cing around us , and every instant threatening a charge , without daring to execute it . We took up our new position ...
... cavalry , and , while we were retiring through it with the order and precision of a common field - day , they kept dan- cing around us , and every instant threatening a charge , without daring to execute it . We took up our new position ...
Pagina 82
... It turned out to be only a patrole of French cavalry , who retired on receiving a few shots from our piquets , and we saw no more of them for a considerable time . CHAP . VII . March to Estremadura . At Soito 82 ADVENTURES IN.
... It turned out to be only a patrole of French cavalry , who retired on receiving a few shots from our piquets , and we saw no more of them for a considerable time . CHAP . VII . March to Estremadura . At Soito 82 ADVENTURES IN.
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action afternoon amused Arcangues arms arrival artillery attack baggage battalion battle battle of Salamanca battle of Vittoria Bayonne began Bidassoa body breach bridge brigade British camp cannonade carrying cavalry CHAP chateau Ciudad Rodrigo Colonel Barnard commenced cuirassiers dark daylight dragoons enemy enemy's fight fire flank followed force French army front gallant galloped garrison ground guns halted head horse hour immediately infantry instantly James Kempt joined La Haye Sainte La Rhune look Lord Wellington ment miles morning mountain movement musketry neighbouring never night o'clock obliged occasion occupied officer opposite ourselves Pampeluna passed piquet Portuguese position proceeded Pyrenees quarters rear regiment remained retired retreat rifles river road round shot Sabugal Salamanca scene sent sentries shot side siege Sir Rowland Hill skirmishers soldiers soon Spaniards stood storm thing tion told took town troops village whole wounded yards
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Pagina viii - Their dearest action in the tented field ; And little of this great world can I speak, More than pertains to feats of broil and battle ; And therefore little shall I grace my cause, In speaking for myself; yet by your gracious patience, I will a roun'd...
Pagina viii - For since these arms of mine had seven years' pith, Till now, some nine moons wasted, they have used Their dearest action in the tented field ; And little of this great world can I speak, More than pertains to feats of broil and battle ; And therefore little shall I grace my cause, In speaking for myself; yet by your...
Pagina 115 - the current of soldiers setting toward the centre of the town, I followed the stream, which conducted me into the great square ;-on one side of which the late garrison were drawn up as prisoners; and the rest of it was filled with British and Portuguese intermixed, without any order or regularity. I had been there but a very short time, when they all commenced firing, without any ostensible cause : some fired at the doors and windows, some at the roofs of houses, and others at the clouds ; and, at...
Pagina 35 - Who is that fellow there," (pointing to the enemy's sentry, close to us,) and, on being told that he was a Frenchman, " Then why the devil don't you shoot him ! " Repeated acts of civility passed between the French and us during this tacit suspension of hostilities.
Pagina 45 - ... at the time fixed, with his haversack in his hand. A haversack on service is a sort of dumb waiter. The mess have a good many things in common, but the contents of the haversack are exclusively the property of its owner ; and a well regulated one ought never to be without the following furniture, unless when the perishable part is consumed, in consequence of every other means of supply having failed, viz.
Pagina 335 - ... for men's lives were held very cheap there. " For the two or three succeeding hours there was no variety with us, but one continued blaze of musketry. The smoke hung so thick about, that, although not more than eighty yards asunder, we could only distinguish each other by the flashes of the pieces.
Pagina 49 - ... did, nor do I care three buttons what this or t'other person thinks he did, I shall limit all my descriptions to such events as immediately concerned the important personage most interested in this history. " Be it known, then, that I was one of a crowd of skirmishers who were enabling the French ones to carry the news of their own defeat through a thick wood at an infantry canter when I found myself all at once within a few yards of one of their regiments in line, which opened such a fire that...
Pagina 338 - This movement had carried us clear of the smoke, and, to people who had been for so many hours enveloped in darkness, in the midst of destruction, and naturally anxious about the result of the day, the scene which now met the eye conveyed a feeling of more exquisite gratification than can be conceived. It was a fine summer's evening, just before sunset. The French were flying in one confused mass. British lines were seen in close pursuit, and in admirable order, as far as the eye could reach to the...
Pagina 46 - ... a sausage, a little tea and sugar, a knife, fork, and spoon, a tin cup, (which answers to the names of tea-cup, soup-plate, wine-glass, and tumbler,) a pair of socks, a piece of soap, a tooth-brush, towel, and comb, and half a dozen cigars.
Pagina 315 - Buonaparte's theory, the victory was theirs, by all the rules of war, for they held superior numbers, both before and behind us ; but the gallant old Picton, who had been trained in a different school, did not choose to confine himself to rules in those matters : despising the force in his rear, he advanced, charged, and routed those in his front, which created such a panic among the others, that they galloped back through the intervals in his division, with no other object in view but their own...