 | William Francis Patrick Napier - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1833 - 740 pages
...extricating themselves from the crowded columns, sacrifice their lives to gain time for the mass to open out on such a fair field ; in vain did the mass itself...bear up, and fiercely striving, fire indiscriminately upon friends and foes while the horsemen hovering on the flank threatened to charge the advancing line.... | |
 | English periodicals - 1833 - 610 pages
...his Frenchmen ; in vain did the hardiest veterans, extricating themselves from the crowded columns, sacrifice their lives to gain time for the mass to...threatened to charge the advancing line. Nothing could itop that astonish-, ing infantry. No sudden burst of undisciplined valour, no nervous enthusiasm,... | |
 | Books - 1831 - 652 pages
...extricating themselves from the crowded columns, sacrifice their lives to gain time for the mass to open out on such a fair field ; in vain did the mass itself...bear up, and fiercely striving, fire indiscriminately upon friends and foes, while the horsemen hovering on the flank threatened to charge the advancing... | |
 | Thomas Smart Hughes - Great Britain - 1836 - 348 pages
...extricating themselves from the crowded columns, sacrifice their lives to gain time for the mass to open out on such a fair field ; in vain did the mass itself...friends and foes; while the horsemen, hovering on the flank, threatened to charge the advancing line. Nothing could stop that astonishing infantry : no sudden... | |
 | Memoirs - 1835 - 460 pages
...from the crowded columns, sacrifice their lives to gain time for the mass to open out, on so fair a field ; in vain did the mass itself bear up, and fiercely striving, fire indiscriminately upon friends and foes, while the horsemen, hovering on the flank, threatened to charge the advancing... | |
 | Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1839 - 900 pages
...extricating themselves from the crowded columns, sacrifice their lives to gain lime for the mass to open out on such a fair field ; in vain did the mass itself...bear up, and fiercely striving, fire indiscriminately upon friends and foes, while the horsemen hovering on the Qank threatened to charge the advancing line.... | |
 | Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1839 - 890 pages
...extricating themselves from the crowded columns, sacrifice their lives lo gain time for the mass to open out on such a fair field ; in vain did the mass itself bear up, and Gcrcely striving, fire indiscriminately upon friends and foes, while the horsemen hovering on the flank... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1840 - 918 pages
...themselves from the crowded column, sacrifice their lives to gain time and space for the mass to open out on such a fair field ; in vain did the mass itself...indiscriminately on friends and foes, while the horsemen hover* Ante, vii. 342. ing on the flanks threatened to charge the advancing CHAP. line. Nothing could... | |
 | sir William Francis P. Napier - 1840 - 798 pages
...veterans break from the crowded columns and sacrifice their lives to gain time for the mass to open out on such a fair field ; in vain did the mass itself...bear up, and fiercely striving, fire indiscriminately upon friends and foes, while the horsemen hovering on the flank threatened to charge the advancing... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1841 - 894 pages
...themselves from the crowded column, sacrifice their lives to gain time and space for the mass to open out on such a fair field ; in vain did the mass itself bear up, and, fiercely striving, lire indiscriminately on friends and foes, while tho horsemen hovering on the flanks threatened to... | |
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In vain did Soult, by voice and gesture, animate his Frenchmen ; in vain did the hardiest veterans, extricating themselves from the crowded columns, sacrifice their lives to gain time for the mass to open out on such a fair field ; in vain did the mass... 
