 | 1840 - 844 páginas
...drunkards." The following extract is to the same purport. It relates to the storming of Ciudad Rodrigo. " Throwing off the restraints of discipline, the troops...excesses. The town was fired in three or four places, the 'olditrs menaced their officers, and shot each other; many were killed in the market-place ; intoxication... | |
 | Andrew Redman Bonar - 1845 - 472 páginas
...whe, though wounded, had been amongst the foremost at the breach, received the Governor's sword. " The allies now plunged into the streets from all quarters,...officers, and shot each other ; many were killed in the marketplace. Intoxication soon increased the tumult ; disorder every where prevailed, and at last,... | |
 | Thomas Smart Hughes - 1846 - 532 páginas
...scenes of this night, its terrors could hardly be surpassed. ' Throwing off,' says colonel Napier, ' the restraints of discipline, the troops committed...soldiers menaced their officers, and shot each other; intoxication soon increased the tumult ; and at last, the fury rising to absolute madness, a fire was... | |
 | T. M. Hughes - 1847 - 382 páginas
...understood." (Ibid.) The vital contest lasted only a few minutes, but cost the gallant Crawfnrd's life. " Throwing off the restraints of discipline, the troops...officers, and shot each other; many were killed in the market-place, intoxication soon increased the tumult, disorder everywhere prevailed, and at last, the... | |
 | Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - 1867 - 534 páginas
...foremost at the lesser breach, received the governor's sword. Now into the streets plunged the assailants from all quarters, for O'Toole's attack was also successful,...and at the other side of the town Pack's Portuguese and the reserves meeting no resistance had entered. Throwing off the restraints of discipline the troops... | |
 | David Hume - 1859 - 238 páginas
...Cindad Rodrigo was attended with fearful scenes. Colonel Napier says : — " Throwing off the restraint of discipline the troops committed frightful excesses:...soldiers menaced their officers, and shot each other ; intoxication soon increased the tumult ; and at t the fury rising to absolute madness, a fire was... | |
 | Peninsular veteran - 1878 - 264 páginas
...quarters; after which, throwing off the restraints of discipline, frightful excesses were committed. The town was fired in three or four places; the soldiers...officers, and shot each other; many were killed in the market-place; intoxication soon increased the disorder ; and at last, the fury rising to an absolute... | |
 | Henry Stewart (M.A.) - 1879 - 392 páginas
...Gurwood received the governor's sword. " Now," says Napier, " into the streets plunged the assailants from all quarters, for O'Toole's attack was also successful,...and at the other side of the town Pack's Portuguese and the reserves, meeting no resistance, had entered. Throwing off the restraints of discipline the... | |
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... prevailed, and at last, the fury rising to an absolute madness, a fire was wilfully lighted in the middle of the great magazine, when the town and all in it would have been blown to atoms, but for the energetic courage of some... 
