History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France: From the Year 1807 to the Year 1814, Volumen4T. & W. Boone, 1846 |
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Términos y frases comunes
affairs Agueda Albuera Alemtejo allies Almeida Andalusia Appendix Aragon arms arrived artillery attack Badajos Barcelona batteries battle besiegers Blake blockade BOOK breach brigade British Cadiz Campo Verde captain Codrington castle Catalonia cavalry centre CHAP Ciudad Rodrigo colonel columns command convoy corps cortes defence detachment Dorsenne Ebro Elbodon Elvas enemy enemy's England English Eroles Estremadura fire flank force fortress France French army front Gallicia garrison Guadiana Guinaldo guns hills hundred Igualada infantry junta l'armée l'empereur Lacy latter Lerida light division Lisbon lord Wellington Madrid majesté Marmont Meanwhile menaced Mequinenza military Montserrat Murcian Napoleon night officers operations Partidas passed Peninsula Peniscola Portugal Portuguese position posts province qu'il regency regiments reinforcements retired retreat river road Saguntum Sarsfield sent Sept Seville side siege soldiers Soult Spain Spaniards Spanish squadrons Stuart succour Suchet Tagus Taragona thousand tion Tortoza town troops Truxillo Valencia Wellesley whole
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Página 420 - ... the loud exhortations of the officers, and the continual clatter of the muskets, made a maddening din. Now a multitude bounded up the great breach as if driven by a whirlwind, but across the top glittered a range of swordblades, sharp-pointed, keen-edged on both sides, and firmly fixed in ponderous beams, which were chained together, and set deep in the ruins...
Página 354 - General Clause!, who had under his command that part of the army of the north, and one division of the army of Portugal, which was not in the action of the 21st, approached Vittoria on the 23d, when he heard of the action of the preceding day, and finding there the 6th division, which had just arrived, under the command of Major- General the Hon.
Página 429 - Nor would I be understood to select these as preeminent, many and signal were the other examples of unbounded devotion, some known, some that will never be known; for in such a tumult much passed unobserved, and often the observers fell themselves ere they could bear testimony to what they saw; but no age, no nation ever sent forth braver troops to battle than those who stormed Badajos.
Página 418 - ... the men of Albuera, were there smothered. Those who followed, checked not, but as if such a disaster had been expected, turned to the left, and thus came upon the face of the unfinished ravelin...
Página 427 - Shameless rapacity, brutal intemperance, savage lust, cruelty and murder, shrieks and piteous lamentations, groans, shouts, imprecations, the hissing of fires bursting from the houses, the crashing of doors and windows, and the reports of muskets used in violence, resounded for two days and nights in the streets of Badajos ! On the third, when the city was sacked, when the soldiers were exhausted by their own excesses, the tumult rather subsided than was quelled : the wounded men were then looked...
Página 424 - French guardhouse, at the barriergate, undiscovered, for the ripple of the waters smothered the sound of their footsteps; but just then the explosion at the breaches took place, the moon shone out, and the French sentinels, discovering the columns, fired. The British troops immediately springing forward under a sharp musketry began to hew down the wooden barrier at the covered way, while the Portuguese, being panic-stricken, threw down the scaling ladders.
Página 422 - ... Gathering in dark groups, and leaning on their muskets, they looked up with sullen desperation at the Trinidad, while the enemy, stepping out on the ramparts, and aiming their shots by the light of the fire-balls which they threw over, asked, as their victims fell, ' Why they did not come into Badajos...
Página 421 - ... heaped on each other, and the wounded, struggling to avoid being trampled upon, broke the formations ; order was impossible!
Página 418 - During these events, the tumult at the breaches was such as if the very earth had been rent asunder, and its central fires were bursting upwards uncontrolled.
Página 426 - Vincente was first carried, was strangely situated, for the streets were empty and brilliantly illuminated, and no person was seen; yet a low buzz and whisper were heard around, lattices were now and then gently opened, and from time to time shots were fired from underneath the doors of the houses by the Spaniards.