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... A Traveller's Rambling Reminiscences of the Spanish War - Página 24por Thomas Farr - 1838 - 335 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - 1839 - 900 páginas
...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 Badajoz!...wounded men were then looked to, the dead disposed of! Five thousand men and officers fell during this siege, and of these, including seven hundred Portuguese,... | |
| 1840 - 844 páginas
...reports of muskets used in violence, resounded for two dnys and nights in the streets of Badajos ! О» the third, when the city was sacked, when the soldiers...wounded men were then looked to, the dead disposed of." " Tbe scene that now surpassed all that can be imagined ; drunkenness, cruelty, and debauchery, the... | |
| Charles Sumner - 1845 - 108 páginas
...the houses, the crashing of doors and windows, and the report of muskets used in violence, resounded for two days and nights in the streets of Badajoz...sacked, when the soldiers were exhausted by their excesses, the tumult rather subsided than was quelled ! The wounded were then looked to, the dead disposed... | |
| Charles Sumner - 1846 - 42 páginas
...the houses, the crashing of doors and windows, and the report of muskets used in violence, resounded for two days and nights in the streets of Badajoz...third, when the city was sacked, when the soldiers were ship and commerce between the two nations and every individual thereof, impressing upon each citizen... | |
| 1846 - 910 páginas
...crashing of doors and windows, and the report of muskets used in violence, resounded for two days nnd nights in the streets of Badajoz ! On the third, when...sacked, when the soldiers were exhausted by their excesses, the tumult rather subsided than was quelled! The wounded were then looked to — the dead... | |
| T. M. Hughes - 1847 - 382 páginas
...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 Badajoz!...wounded men were then looked to, the dead disposed of." (Ibid.) Let this scene be for ever engraven on our minds—let its horrors be a response to the insane... | |
| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1847 - 850 páginas
...from houses, the crashing of doors and windows, and the reports of muskets used in violence, retounded for two days and nights in the streets of Badajoz!...excesses, the tumult rather subsided than was quelled ! " A gallows was erected in the principal square of the town, on which, by Wellington's orders, several... | |
| Henry Wright Phillott - 1849 - 224 páginas
...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...wounded men were then looked to, the dead disposed of ! History of the Peninsular War. IT. But to understand the remarkable movements which were now about... | |
| Andrew Redman Bonar - 1850 - 474 páginas
...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...tumult rather subsided, than was quelled. The wounded were then looked to, and the dead disposed of. " Five thousand men and officers fell during the siege,... | |
| Charles Sumner - 1850 - 436 páginas
...the houses, the crashing of doors and windows, and the report of muskets used in violence, resounded for two days and nights in the streets of Badajoz...sacked, when the soldiers were exhausted by their excesses, the tumult rather subsided than was quelled ! The wounded were then looked to, the dead disposed... | |
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