Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" Though this attack has failed, it would be great injustice not to assure your Lordship, that the troops conducted themselves with their usual gallantry, and only retired, when I thought si further perseverance in the attack would have occasioned a useless... "
Journals of Sieges Carried on by the Army Under the Duke of Wellington, in ... - Page 47
by Sir John Thomas Jones (bart.) - 1827
Full view - About this book

The Monthly Magazine, Volume 36

Art - 1813 - 682 pages
...Though this attack has failed, it wonld be great injustice not to assure \oiir Lordship, that the trnops conducted themselves with their usual gallantry, and...when I thought a further perseverance in the attack uonld have occasioned a useless ^acпticc of brave mm. Majorgeneral Hay, ¡Major Frazer, Colnnel the...
Full view - About this book

The Military [afterw.] Royal military panorama or Officer's companion, Volume 3

1813 - 750 pages
...the whole r\*!i<:r tbe direction of Major-General Osnald, commanding the ith division. — _ *^bough this attack has failed, it would be great injustice not to assure •****" Lordship, that the troops conducted themselves with their usual g-aly ; and only retired,...
Full view - About this book

The Military Panorama, Or, Officer's Companion, Volume 3

Military art and science - 1813 - 754 pages
...trenches; the whole under the direction of Major-General Oswald, commanding the ¡ith division. Though thia attack has failed, it would be great injustice not...themselves with their usual gallantry ; and only retired, wiicn I thought a further perseverance in the attack would have occasioned a useless sacrifice of hrave...
Full view - About this book

The Royal Military Chronicle or British Officers Monthly Register and Mentor ...

The Royal Military Chronicle or British Officers Monthly Register and Mentor VOL VII - 1813 - 750 pages
...division. Though tbis attack has failed, it would be frcat injustice not to assure your I -Tib-hip, that the troops conducted themselves with their usual...thought a further perseverance in the attack would live occasioned a useless sacrifice of brave men. Major-General Hay, Major Frazer, Colonel the honourable...
Full view - About this book

The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and ..., Volumes 54-55

History - 1814 - 800 pages
...in the trençhf-s : the whole under the direction of Major-General Oswald, commanding 5th division. Though this attack has failed, it would be great injustice not to assure •formidable heights. It is impos•etble that Í can extoítoo highly the TondVct of Maj'or-Generat...
Full view - About this book

History of Napoleon Bonaparte, and wars of Europe, by W.B. Heweston, Volume 3

William B. Hewetson - 1815 - 458 pages
...trenches : the whole under the direction of major-general Oswald, commanding the fifth division. " Though this attack has failed, it would be great injustice...with their usual gallantry, and only retired when t thought a further perseverance in the attack would have occasioned a useless sacrifice of brave men....
Full view - About this book

The Edinburgh Annual Register, for 1808-26, Volume 6

Europe - 1815 - 772 pages
...throw over to many hand-grenades on the troops, that it became necessary to desist from the attack. Though this attack has failed, it would be great injustice not to assure your lordship that the troop* conducted themselves with their usual gallantry, and only retired when I thought a further perseverance...
Full view - About this book

The Edinburgh Annual Register

Walter Scott - Europe - 1815 - 770 pages
...throw over so many hand-grenades on the troops, that it became necessary to desist from the attack. Though this attack has failed, it would be great injustice not to assure your lordship that the troopi conducted themselves with their usual gallantry, and only retired when I thought a further perseverance...
Full view - About this book

The Royal Military Calendar, Or Army Service and Commission Book ..., Volume 2

John Philippart - Great Britain - 1820 - 480 pages
...the trenches; the whole under the direction of Major-General Oswald, commanding the 5th division. " Though this attack has failed, it would be great injustice...usual gallantry, and only retired, when I thought si further perseverance in the attack would have occasioned a useless sacrifice of brave men. Major-General...
Full view - About this book

Annual Register, Volume 55

Edmund Burke - History - 1823 - 854 pages
...reserve, in the trenches i the whole under the direction of majorgeneral Oswald, commanding 5th division. Though this attack has failed, it would be great injustice not to !98 assure your lordship, that the troops conducted themselves with their usual gallantry, and only...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF