 | William Francis Patrick Napier - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1833 - 740 pages
...bands, showed that the river was impassable. The monotonous tones of a French drum were then heard. The next instant, the head of a noble column darkened...drummer and an officer in a splendid uniform, leaped forward together, and the whole rushed on with loud cries. The depth of the ravine at first deceived... | |
 | English periodicals - 1831 - 608 pages
...monotonous tones of a French drum were then heard, and in another instant, the head of a noble column was at the long narrow bridge. A drummer and an officer in a splendid uniform, leaped forward together, and the whole rushed on with loud cries. The depth of the ravine at first deceived... | |
 | Military art and science - 1831 - 942 pages
...monotonous tones of a French drum were then heard, and in another instant, the head of a noble column was at the long narrow bridge. A drummer and an officer in a splendid uniform, leaped forward together, and the whole rushed on with loud cries. The depth of the ravine at first deceived... | |
 | Books - 1831 - 652 pages
...tones of a French drum were then heard, and, in another instant, the head of a noble column was at the long narrow bridge. A drummer, and an officer in a splendid uniform, leapud forward together, and the whole rushed on with loud cries. The depth of the ravine at first... | |
 | Antislavery movements - 1833 - 370 pages
...was at the long narrow bridge. A drummer and an officer in splendid uniform leaped forward together, and the whole rushed on with loud cries : the depth of the ravine at first deceived the soldiers' aim, and two-thirds of the passage were won ere an English shot had brought down an enemy;... | |
 | Heaton Bowstead Robinson - 1835 - 910 pages
...hostile bands showed the river was impassable. The monotonous tones of a French drum were then heard: the next instant, the head of a noble column darkened...drummer, and an officer in a splendid uniform, leaped forward together, and the whole rushed on with loud cries. " The depth of the ravine at first deceived... | |
 | Memoirs - 1835 - 460 pages
...at the long narrow bridge. A drummer, and an officer in splendid uniform, leaped forward together, and the whole rushed on with loud cries. The depth of the ravine at first deceived the soldier's aim on our side, and two-thirds of the passage were won before an English shot had brought... | |
 | Heaton Bowstead Robinson - 1836 - 442 pages
...hostile bands showed the river was impassable. The monotonous tones of a French drum were then heard ; the next instant, the head of a noble column darkened...drummer, and an officer in a splendid uniform, leaped forward together, and the whole rushed on with loud cries. " The depth of the ravine at first deceived... | |
 | Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1839 - 900 pages
...bands, showed that the river was impassable. The monotonous tones of a French drum were then heard. The next instant, the head of a noble column darkened...drummer and an officer in a splendid uniform, leaped forward together, and the whole rushed on with loud cries. The depth of the ravine at first deceived... | |
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French drum were then heard, and in another instant, the head of a noble column was at the long narrow bridge. A drummer and an officer in a splendid uniform leaped forward together, and the whole rushed on with loud cries. The depth of the ravine at... 
