 ... Cosso, being gained, a battery was established that raked that great thoroughfare above ground, while under it, six galleries were carried, and six mines loaded to explode at the same moment. But the spirit of the French army was now exhausted. They...  The History of England - Page 96by Thomas Smart Hughes - 1836Full view - About this book
 | William Francis Patrick Napier - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1832 - 568 pages
...spirit of the French army was now exhausted. They had laboured and fought without intermission for fifty days ; they had crumbled the walls with their...of a subterranean warfare, famine pinched them, and Zaragoza was still unconquered ! " Before this siege," they exclaimed, " was it ever known, that twenty... | |
 | History - 1834 - 560 pages
...thi' spirit of the French army was now exhausted; they had labored and fought without intermission for fifty days; they had crumbled the walls with their...surface of the earth, they had spared neither fire nor the sword, their bravest men were falling in the obscurity of a subterranean warfare; famine pinched... | |
 | History - 1834 - 562 pages
...spirit of the French army was now exhausted ; they had labored and fought without intermission for fifty days; they had crumbled the walls with their...mines, and carried the breaches with their bayonets, — fighti.-ig above and beneath the surface of the earth, they had spared neither fire nor the sword,... | |
 | Arthur Thomas Malkin - History - 1835 - 440 pages
...spirit of the French army was now exhausted ; they had laboured and fought without intermission for fifty days ; they had crumbled the walls with their...burst the convents with their mines, and carried the walls with their bayonets. Fighting above and beneath the surface of the earth, they had spared neither... | |
 | Arthur Thomas Malkin - World history - 1835 - 750 pages
...spirit of the French army was now exhausted ; they had laboured and fought without intermission for fifty days ; they had crumbled the walls with their bullets, burst the convents with their mines. anil carried the walls with their bayonets. Fighting above and beneath the surface of the earth, they... | |
 | William Francis Patrick Napier - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1839 - 866 pages
...spirit of the French army was now exhausted. They had laboured and fought without intermission for fifty days; they had crumbled the walls with their...of a subterranean warfare, famine pinched them, and Zaragoza was still unconquered ! "Before this siege," they exclaimed, "was it ever known, that twenty... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...spirit of the French army was now exhausted; they had laboured and fought without intermission for fifty days; they had crumbled the walls with their...surface of the earth, they had spared neither fire nor the sword; their bravest men were falling in the obscurity of a subterranean warfare ; famine pinched... | |
 | Thomas Smart Hughes - 1846 - 500 pages
...Saguntum and Numantia equally exhibited it. Before the middle of February, the spirit of the besiegers was nearly exhausted: 'they had labored and fought,'...of a subterranean warfare; famine pinched them; and Saragossa was still unconquered!' one determined and energetic garrison. The French, — Marshal Lasnes,... | |
 | Arthur Thomas Malkin - Greece - 1846 - 792 pages
...spirit of the French army was now exhausted ; they had laboured and fought without intennission for fifty days ; they had crumbled the walls with their...bullets, burst the convents with their mines, and carried ^he walls with their bayonets. Fighting above and beneath the surface of the earth, they had spared... | |
 | David Hume - 1859 - 238 pages
...citadel, garrisoned by heroic men, resolved to die for its defence. The French had laboured and fought without intermission fifty days ; they had crumbled...carried the breaches with their bayonets; fighting abo re and beneath the surface of the earth, they had spaiod neither fire nor sword ; their bravest... | |
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