 | 1834 - 614 pages
...fixed in ponderous beams, which were chained together, and set deep in the ruins ; and for ten feet in front, the ascent was covered with loose planks,...on the spikes, rolled down upon the ranks behind. There the Frenchmen, shouting at the success of their stratagem, and leaping forward, plied their shot... | |
 | International peace society - 232 pages
...fixed in ponderous beams, which were chained together and set deep in the ruins ; and for ten feet in front, the ascent was covered with loose planks,...being set, the planks moved, and the unhappy soldiers, fulling forward on the spikes, rolled down upon the ranks behind. Then the Frenchmen, shouting at the... | |
 | 1834 - 734 pages
...fixed in ponderous beams, which were chained together, and set deep in the ruins; and lor ten foet in front the ascent was covered with loose planks...moved, and the unhappy soldiers, falling forward on the 1 spikes, rolled down upon the ranks behind. Then the Frenchmen, shouting at the success of their stratagem,... | |
 | 1834 - 604 pages
...set deep in the ruins ; and for ten feet in front, the ascent was covered with loose planks, otndded with sharp iron points, on which the feet of the foremost...on the spikes, rolled down upon the ranks behind. There the Frenchmen, shouting at the success of their stratagem, and leaping forward, plied their shot... | |
 | Memoirs - 1835 - 460 pages
...fixed in ponderous beams, which were chained together and set deep in the ruins ; and for ten feet in front the ascent was covered with loose planks...feet of the foremost being set, the planks moved, and 164 the unhappy soldiers, falling forward on the spikes, rolled down upon the ranks behind. Then the... | |
 | Thomas Smart Hughes - Great Britain - 1836 - 348 pages
...sword-blades, firmly fixed in ponderous beams, chained together, and set deep in the ruins : for ten feet in front, the ascent was covered with loose planks, studded with sharp iron points ; which, being pressed by the feet of the foremost, tilted up; and the wretched victims, falling forward... | |
 | Thomas Smart Hughes - Great Britain - 1836 - 530 pages
...swordblades, firmly fixed in ponderous beams, chained together, and set deep in the ruins : for ten feet in front, the ascent was covered with loose planks, studded with sharp iron points ; which, being pressed by the feet of the foremost, tilted up ; and the wretched victims, falling forward... | |
 | Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1842 - 516 pages
...fixed in ponderous beams, which were chained together and set deep in the ruins ; and for ten feet in front, the ascent was covered with loose planks,...their stratagem, and leaping forward, plied their shot wiih terrible rapidity, for every man had several muskets ; and each musket in addition to its ordinary... | |
 | Andrew Redman Bonar - 1845 - 472 pages
...set deep in the ruins ; and for ten feet in front the ascent was covered with loose planks, stndded with sharp iron points, on which the feet of the foremost...moved, and the unhappy soldiers, falling forward on the pikes, rolled down upon the ranks behind. Then the Frenchmen, shouting at the success of this stratagem,... | |
 | Thomas Smart Hughes - Great Britain - 1846 - 532 pages
...swordblades, firmly fixed in ponderous beams, chained together, and set deep in the ruins: for ten feet in front, the ascent was covered with loose planks, studded with sharp iron points ; which, being pressed by the feet of the foremost, tilted up ; and the wretched victims, falling forward... | |
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... foremost being set the planks moved, and the unhappy soldiers, falling forward on the spikes, rolled down upon the ranks behind. 
