 I saw him late in the evening of that great day, when the advancing flashes of cannon and musketry, stretching as far as the eye could command, shewed in the darkness how well the field was won ; he was alone, the flush of victory was on his brow, and...  Estremadura, Leon, Gallicia, the Asturias, the Castiles (old and new), the ... - Page 513by Richard Ford - 1855Full view - About this book
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - Generals - 1852 - 562 pages
...to his wreath, the admirable historian of his wars thus describes him as he stood : — " I saw him late in the evening of that great day, when the advancing...was won ; he was alone, the flush of victory was on liis brow, and his eyes were eager and watchful, but his voice was calm, and even gentle. More than... | |
 | Richard Ford - 1852 - 80 pages
...thus the full bowl was again dashed from his lips. " I saw him," says Napier — a soldier pourtraying a soldier, — " late in the evening of that great...flashes of cannon and musketry, stretching as far as the eye<could command, showed in the dark how well the field was " won. He was alone — the flush of victory... | |
 | Great Britain - 1853 - 888 pages
...meeting with the Duke on the victorious field of Salamanca, which he has thus recorded : — " I saw him late in the evening of that great day, when the advancing...darkness how well the field was won. He was alone, the flu»h of victory was on his brow, and his eyes were eager and watchful ; but his voice was calm and... | |
 | William Chambers - New Zealand - 1854 - 560 pages
...which he chiefly prided himself. ' I saw him,' remarks the historian, General Napier — ' I saw him late in the evening of that great day, when the advancing flashes of cannon and musketry shewed how well the field was won : he was alone. The flush of victory was upon his brow, and his eyes... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1859 - 636 pages
...which he chiefly prided himself. ' I saw him,' remarks the historian, General Napier — •' I saw him late in the evening of that great day, when the advancing flashes of cannon and musketry shewed how well the field was won : he was alone. The flush of victory was upon his brow, and his eyes... | |
 | William Chambers - Biography - 1859 - 600 pages
...which he chiefly prided himself. ' I saw him,' remarks the historian, General Napier — ' I saw him late in the evening of that great day, when the advancing flashes of cannon and musketry shewed how well the field was won : he was alone. The flush of victory was upon his brow, and his eyes... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1898 - 872 pages
...and shook the colossal structure of Napoleon's power to its very base NAPIER. I saw him [Wellington] late in the evening of that great day, when the advancing...musketry, stretching as far as the eye could command in the darkness, showed how well the field was won ; he was alone, the flush of victory was on his... | |
 | Henry George O'Shea - 1865 - 718 pages
...seen at every point precisely where his presence was most required." ' I saw him,' writes Napier, ' late in the evening of that great day, when the advancing...far as the eye could command, showed in the darkness ho* well the field was won. He was alone ; the flush of victory was on his brow, and his eyes were... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1867 - 606 pages
...time, of such a victory ; but Napier thus describes his calm bearing in the evening : — ' I saw him late in the evening of that great day, when the advancing...eye could command, showed in the darkness how well tho field WHS won ; he was alone, the flush of victory was on his brow, and his eyes were eager and... | |
 | Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1890 - 564 pages
...battle from him ; yet he fought it as if his genius disdained such trial of its strength. I saw him late in the evening of that great day, when the advancing flashes of cannon and musketry strftching as far as the eye could command showed in the darkness how well the field was won ; he was... | |
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