 | English periodicals - 1831 - 608 pages
...rains, and it was impossible to retreat farther. " The French skirmishers, swarming on the right bank, opened a biting fire, which was returned as bitterly...by numberless echoes, and the smoke, rising slowly, ra> solved itself into an immense arch, spanning the whole chasm, and sparkling with the whirling fuzes... | |
 | Military art and science - 1831 - 942 pages
...rains, and it was impossible to retreat farther. " The French skirmishers, swarming on the right hank, opened a biting fire, which was returned as bitterly...flying shells. The enemy gathered fast and thickly ; hie columns were discovered forming behind the high rocks, and a dragoon was seen to try the depth... | |
 | William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1831 - 906 pages
...retreat farther. The .French skirmishers, swarming on the right bank, opened a biting fire, which wns returned as bitterly; the artillery on both sides...and sparkling with the whirling fuzes of the flying shell*. The enemy gathered fast and thickly ; his columns were discovered forming behind the high rocks,... | |
 | Heaton Bowstead Robinson - 1835 - 910 pages
...rains, and it was impossible to retreat further. The French skirmishers swarming on the right bank, opened a biting fire, which was returned as bitterly...spanning the whole chasm, and sparkling with the whirling fusees of the flying shells. The enemy gathered fast and thickly; his columns were discovered forming... | |
 | Memoirs - 1835 - 460 pages
...regiment, re91 beyond them the bridge of Castello Bom. The French skirmishers, swarming on the right bank, opened a biting fire, which was returned as bitterly...rising slowly, resolved itself into an immense arch, sparkling with the whirling phases of the flying shells. The enemy despatched a dragoon to try the... | |
 | Heaton Bowstead Robinson - 1836 - 442 pages
...rains, and it was impossible to retreat further. The French skirmishers swarming on the right bank, opened a biting fire, which was returned as bitterly...spanning the whole chasm, and sparkling with the whirling fusees of the flying shells. The enemy gathered fast and thickly ; his columns were discovered forming... | |
 | Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1839 - 890 pages
...impossible to retreat farther. The French skirmishers, swarming on the right bank, opened a biting lire, which was returned as bitterly; the artillery on both...spanning the whole chasm, and sparkling with the whirling fusees of the flying shells. The enemy gathered fast and thickly, his columns were discovered forming... | |
 | Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1842 - 454 pages
...rains, and it was impossible to retreat farther. The French skirmishers, swarming on the right bank, opened a biting fire, which was returned as bitterly...spanning the whole chasm, and sparkling with the whirling fusees of the flying shells. The enemy gathered fast and thickly, his columns were discovered forming... | |
 | Great Britain. Army, William Hamilton Maxwell - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1847 - 560 pages
...encounters which the annals of modern warfare record. "The French skirmishers, swarming on the right bank, opened a biting fire, which was returned as bitterly;...spanning the whole chasm, and sparkling with the whirling fuzees of the flying shells. The enemy gathered fast and thickly; his columns were discovered forming... | |
 | Sir William Francis Patrick Napier, William Francis Patrick Napier - France - 1851 - 552 pages
...impossible to retreat farther until nightfall. Soon the French skirmishers, swarming on the right bank, opened a biting fire, which was returned as bitterly...sparkling with the whirling fuzes of the flying shells. Fast and thickly the French gathered behind the high rocks and a dragoon was seen to try the depth... | |
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The French skirmishers, swarming on the right bank, opened a biting fire, which was returned as bitterly ; the artillery on both sides played across the ravine, the sounds were repeated by numberless echoes, and the smoke, rising slowly, resolved itself... 
