 | Walter Scott - France - 1827 - 436 pages
...repaid their audacity. Nothing in war was ever seen more desperate than the exertions of the Mamelukes. Failing to force their horses through the French squares,...they became frantic with despair, they hurled at the immovable phalanxes, which they could not break, their pistols, their poniards, and their carabines.... | |
 | American literature - 1827 - 654 pages
...repaid their audacity. Nothing in war was ever seen more desperate than the exertions of the Mamelukes. Failing to force their horses through the French squares,...they became frantic with despair, they hurled at the immovable phalanxes, which they could not break, their pistols, their poniards* and their carabines.... | |
 | Walter Scott - France - 1827 - 532 pages
...their audacity. Nothing in war was ever seen more desperate than the exertions of the Mamelukes. Faibng to force their horses through the French squares,...they became frantic with despair, they hurled at the immovable phalanxes, which they could not break, their pistols, their poniards, and their carabines.... | |
 | Walter Scott - France - 1832 - 1094 pages
...individuals were tee« to wheel them round and rein them tact on the ranks, that they might disorder thtn by kicking. As they became frantic with despair, they hurled at the immonbls phalanxe», which thtv could nothreil, tbeir pistols, their poniards, and their csrabioeL... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1833 - 720 pages
...repair, their audacity. Nothing in war was ever seen more desperate than the exertions of the Mamelukes. Failing to force their horses through the French squares,...round, and rein them back on the ranks, that they mighi disorder them by kicking. As they became frantic with despair, they hurled at the immovable phalanxes,... | |
 | Walter Scott - France - 1835 - 456 pages
...repaid their audacity. Nothing in war was ever seen more desperate than the exertions of the Mamelukes. Failing to force their horses through the French squares,...they became frantic with despair, they hurled at the immovable phalanxes, which they could not break, their pistols, their poniards, and their carabines.... | |
 | Walter Scott - France - 1836 - 518 pages
...ever seen more desperate than the exertions of the Mamelukes. Failing to force their horse« througb the French squares, individuals were seen to wheel...they became frantic with despair, they hurled at the immovable phalanxes, which they could notbreakp their pistols, their poniards, and their carabines.... | |
 | William Russell - Europe - 1839 - 696 pages
...exertions of the Mamelukes. Finding it impossible to force their horses through the French squares, they were seen to wheel them round, and rein them back...they became frantic with despair, they hurled at the immoveable phalanxes, which they could not break, their pistols, their poniards, and their carbines.... | |
 | William Russell - Europe - 1841 - 690 pages
...exertions of the Mamelukes. Finding it impossible to force their horses through the French squares, they were seen to wheel them round, and rein them back...they became frantic with despair, they hurled at the immoveable phalanxes, which they could not break, their pistols, their poniards, and their carbines.... | |
 | Europe - 1854 - 482 pages
...repaid their audacity. Nothing in war was ever seen more desperate than the exertions of the Mamelukes. Failing to force their horses through the French squares,...they became frantic with despair, they hurled at the immovable phalanxes, which they could not break, their pistols, poinards and carabines. Those who fell... | |
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Failing to force their horses through the French squares, individuals were seen to wheel them round and rein them back on the ranks, that they might disorder them by kicking. As they became frantic with despair, they hurled at the immovable phalanxes,... 
