 | Adventure and adventurers - 1825 - 840 pages
...The men gallantly ascended the breach against an equally gallant resistance ; and it was not until after a sharp struggle, that the bayonets of the assailants...the summit of the rampart. There, behind an interior Rtrenchment, the garrison redoubled their defensive efforts ; but nothing rould long resist the ardour... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1826 - 370 pages
...ascended the breach against an equally gallant resistance ; and it was not until after a sharp straggle, that the bayonets of the assailants prevailed, and...retrenchment, the garrison redoubled their defensive efforts ; out nothing could long resist the ardour of the attacking columns, and the French gave way at the... | |
 | John Thomas Jones - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1827 - 520 pages
...manner against an equally gallant risistance, and it was not till after a sharp struggle of some minutes that the bayonets of the assailants prevailed and...gained them a footing on the summit of the rampart. The defenders then concentrated behind the retrenchment, which they obstinately maintained, and a second... | |
 | Woolwich roy. military acad - 1843 - 418 pages
...manner against an equally gallant resistance, and it was not till after a sharp struggle of some minutes that the bayonets of the assailants prevailed, and...gained them a footing on the summit of the rampart. The defenders then concentrated behind the retrenchment, which they obstinately maintained, and a second... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - Generals - 1852 - 562 pages
...against an equally gallant resistance ; and it was not till after a sharp struggle of some minutes that the bayonets of the assailants prevailed, and...gained them a footing on the summit of the rampart. The defenders then concentrated behind the retrenchment, which they obstinately maintained, and a second... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - Generals - 1852 - 562 pages
...gallant resistance ; and it was not till after a sharp struggle of some minutes that the bayonets of tlio assailants prevailed, and gained them a footing on the summit of the rampart. The defenders then concentrated behind the retrenchment, which they obstinately maintained, and a second... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - 1858 - 310 pages
...against an equally gallant resistance ; and it was not till after a sharp struggle of some minutes that the bayonets of the a'ssailants prevailed, and...gained them a footing on the summit of the rampart. The defenders then concentrated behind the retrenchment, which they obstinately maintained, and a second... | |
 | sir Francis Bond Head (1st bart.) - 1869 - 452 pages
...manner, against an equally gallant resistance, and it was not till after a sharp struggle of some minutes that the bayonets of the assailants prevailed and...gained them a footing on the summit of the rampart. The defenders then concentrated behind the retrenchment, which they obstinately maintained, and a second... | |
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... M'Kinnon's brigade instantly pushed up the breach, in conjunction with the 5th and 91th regiments, which arrived at the same moment along the ditch from their right. The men mounted in a most gallant manner against an equally gallant resistance ;... 