 | William Coxe - 1820 - 438 páginas
...calculation of the number of draught horses, to draw this artillery, amounts to sixteen thousand horses, by which you will see the difficulties we meet with ; but we hope to overcome them. In the mean time, we send daily parties into France, which occasions great terror... | |
 | William Coxe, John Wade - 1848 - 516 páginas
...aie using our utmost endeavours to get some cannon by land, which meets with infinite difficulties; but we must overcome them, or we shall have very little fruit of our vietory. The duke of Vendome is not contented with having the canal before him, but he is also intrenching,... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1870 - 648 páginas
...supposed to discover • — ^ — . and to profit by any even the slightest error of Marl- 1708. borough and Eugene. There were other and most serious obstacles....chiefs. Vendome sent out from Ghent a division of 18,000 men, and Berwick advanced with part of his army to Mortagne, each in the hope during its slow... | |
 | William Coxe - 1872 - 522 páginas
...calculation of the number of draught horses, to draw this artillery, amounts to sixteen thousand horses, by which you will see the difficulties we meet with ; but we hope to overcome them. In the mean time, we send daily parties into France, which occasions great terror... | |
 | John Hill Burton - 1880 - 360 páginas
...Holland. The calculation of the number of draughthorses to draw this artillery amounts to 16,000 horses, by which you will see the difficulties we meet with ; but we hope to overcome them. In the meantime we send daily parties into France, which occasion great terror."... | |
 | John Hill Burton - 1880 - 356 páginas
...Holland. The calculation of the number of draughthorses to draw this artillery amounts to 16,00(3 horses, by which you will see the difficulties we meet with ; but we hope to overcome them. In the meantime we send daily parties into France, which occasion great terror."... | |
 | Charles Townshend Wilson - 1883 - 616 páginas
...are using our utmost endeavours to get some cannon by land, which meets with infinite difficulties, but we must overcome them, or we shall have very little fruit of our victory." l It will be remembered that, in order to be present at Audenarde, Eugene had shot ahead of his army... | |
 | William Coxe - 1886 - 552 páginas
...calculation of the number of draught horses, to draw this artillery, amounts to sixteen thousand horses, by which you will see the difficulties we meet with ; but we hope to overcome them. In the mean time, we send daily parties into France, which occasions great terror... | |
 | Winston Churchill - 2002 - 1096 páginas
...calculation of the number of draught horses, to draw this artillery, amounts to sixteen thousand horses, by which you will see the difficulties we meet with; but we hope to overcome them. In the meantime we send daily parties into France, which occasions great terror.... | |
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To transport these by land would call for vast exertion and expose them to considerable risk. Still Marlborough persevered. " We have ordered " he writes " twenty battering pieces to be brought from Maestricht ; and we have taken measures for sixty more... 