History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France: From the Year 1807 to the Year 1814, Volumen4T. & W. Boone, 1834 |
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Términos y frases comunes
Agueda Albuera Alemtejo allies Ampurdan Andalusia Aragon arms arrived artillery attack Badajos Barcelona bastion batteries battle besiegers Blake blockade BOOK breach bridge brigade British Cadiz Campo Verde castle Catalans Catalonia cavalry centre CHAP Ciudad Rodrigo columns command convoy cortes defence detachment Dorsenne Ebro Elbodon Elvas enemy enemy's England English Eroles Estremadura fight Figueras fire flank force fortress French army front Gallicia garrison Guadiana Guinaldo guns Habert hills hundred Igualada infantry junta latter Lerida light division Lisbon lord Wellington Macdonald marched Marmont Meanwhile menaced Mequinenza military Montserrat Murcian Napoleon night officers operations Partidas passed Peninsula Peniscola Portugal Portuguese position posts regency regiments reinforcements retired retreat river road Saguntum Sarsfield sent Sept seventh corps Seville side siege soldiers Soult Spain Spaniards Spanish squadrons Stuart succour Suchet Tagus Taragona Tarifa Teruel thousand Tortoza town troops Truxillo Valencia Villa Campa
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Página 432 - Maria ? or the martial fury of that desperate soldier of the ninety-fifth, who, in his resolution to win, thrust himself beneath the chained sword-blades, and there suffered the enemy to dash his head to pieces with the ends of their muskets...
Página 433 - 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 431 - 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 - ... chained together and set deep in the ruins ; and for ten feet in front, the ascent was covered with loose planks, studded with sharp iron points, on which the feet of the foremost being set the planks moved, and the unhappy soldiers, falling forward on the spikes, rolled down upon the ranks behind.
Página 386 - O'Toole's attack was also successful, and at the other side of the town Pack's Portuguese, meeting no resistance, had entered the place, and the reserves also came in. Then throwing off the restraints of discipline the troops committed frightful excesses. The town was fired in three or four places, the soldiers menaced their officers, and shot each other ; many were killed in the market-place, intoxication soon increased the tumult...
Página 425 - Macleod, of the forty-third, a young man whose feeble body would have been quite unfit for war, if it had not been sustained by an unconquerable spirit, was killed.
Página 425 - Yet officers of all stations, followed more or less numerously by the men, were seen to start out, as if struck by a sudden madness, and rush into the breach, which, yawning and glittering with steel, seemed like the mouth of some huge dragon belching forth smoke and flame.
Página 422 - 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.