... like a loosened cliff", went headlong down the steep : the rain flowed after in streams discoloured with blood, and eighteen hundred unwounded men, the remnant of six thousand unconquerable British soldiers, stood triumphant on the fatal hill ! CHAPTER... The Young Buglers: A Tale of the Peninsular War - Page 221by George Alfred Henty - 1880 - 336 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Francis Patrick Napier - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1833 - 740 pages
...went headlong down the steep. The rain flowed after in streams discoloured with blood, and fifteen hundred unwounded men, the remnant of six thousand...British soldiers, stood triumphant on the fatal hill ! CHAPTER VII. WHILE the fuzileers were striving on the height, the cavalry and Harvey's brigade continually... | |
| Books - 1831 - 652 pages
...went headlong down the ascent. Tbe rain flowed after in streams discoloured with blood, and fifteen hundred unwounded men, the remnant of six thousand...British soldiers, stood triumphant on the fatal hill !' — vol. iii. pp. 534—541. This passage affords another proof of the Colonel's curious felicity... | |
| Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1839 - 900 pages
...went headlong down the steep. The rain flowed after in streams discoloured with blood, and fifteen hundred unwounded men, the remnant of six thousand...British soldiers, stood triumphant on the fatal hill ! CHAPTER VII. Continuation of the battle of Albuera — Dreadful state of both armies — Soult retreat«... | |
| sir William Francis P. Napier - 1840 - 798 pages
...mass gave way and like a loosened cliff ~~^[ — went headlong down the steep : the rain flowed M»y- after in streams discoloured with blood, and eighteen...British soldiers, stood triumphant on the fatal hill ! CHAPTER VII. WHILE the fuzileers were striving on the height, the cavalry and Harvey's brigade continually... | |
| William Francis Patrick Napier - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1840 - 740 pages
...mass gave way and like a loosened cliff ^\ — went headlong down the steep : the rain flowed M »y- after in streams discoloured with blood, and eighteen...British soldiers, stood triumphant on the fatal hill ! CHAPTER VII. WHILE the fuzileers were striving on the height, the cavalry and Harvey's brigade continually... | |
| sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1841 - 894 pages
...the ascent. The rain flowed after in streams discoloured with blood ; and fifteen hundred nnwounded men, the remnant of six thousand unconquerable British soldiers, stood triumphant on the fatal hill (5)." conchmon Bcresford, seeing the heights thus gloriously won, immediately bnuic. took steps to... | |
| Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1842 - 454 pages
...the steep. The rain flowed after in streams discoloured with blood, and fifteen hundred un wounded men, the remnant of six thousand unconquerable British soldiers, stood triumphant on the fatal hill ! CHAPTER VII. Continuation of the battle of Albuera — Dreadful state of both armies — Soult retreats... | |
| Archibald Alison - Europe - 1843 - 524 pages
...headlong down the descent. The rain flowed after them in streams discolored with blood; and fifteen hundred unwounded men, the remnant of six thousand...British soldiers, stood triumphant on the fatal hill." Beresford, seeing the heights thus gloriously won, immediately prepared to secure the victory ; and,... | |
| William Francis Patrick Napier - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1867 - 470 pages
...fight, their efforts only increased the irremediable confusion, and the mighty mass, breaking oft' like a loosened cliff, went headlong down the steep...British soldiers, stood triumphant on the fatal hill 1 CHAPTER VII. WHILE the fuzileers were striving on the height, the cavalry and Harvey's brigade continually... | |
| William Francis Patrick Napier - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1851 - 478 pages
...with a horrid carnage it was pushed by the incessant vigour of the attack to the farthest edge of the hill. In vain did the French reserves mix with the...British soldiers, stood triumphant on the fatal hill ! CHAPTER VII. WHILE the fuzileers were striving on the height, the cavalry and Harvey's brigade continually... | |
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