 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
 | Joseph O'Connor - 1911 - 360 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...city was sacked, when the soldiers were exhausted with their own excesses, the tumult rather subsided than was quelled. The wounded men were then looked... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 2003 - 388 páginas
...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...excesses, the tumult rather subsided than was quelled." (Vol. iii, 377.) And again: This storm seemed to be a signal from hell for the perpetration of villainy... | |
 | 1834 - 604 páginas
...reports of muskets used in violence, resounded for two days and nights in the streets of Badajo: ! on the third, when the city was sacked, when the soldiers...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,... | |
 | Various - 1868 - 644 páginas
...of doors and windows, and the reports of muskets used in violence, resounded for two nights and days in the streets of Badajoz. On the third, when the...own excesses, the tumult rather subsided than was quelled.J And so at St. Sebastian : — This storm seemed to be the signal of Hell for the perpetration... | |
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