 | 1834 - 614 pages
...moved, and the unhappy soldiers, falling forward on the spikes, rolled down upon the ranks behind. There the Frenchmen, shouting at the success of their stratagem,...contained a small cylinder of wood, stuck full of leaden slugs, which scattered like hail when they were discharged. " Again the assailants rushed up... | |
 | International peace society - 232 pages
...being set, the planks moved, and the unhappy soldiers, fulling forward on the spikes, rolled down upon the ranks behind. Then the Frenchmen, shouting at...contained a small cylinder of wood, stuck full of leaden slugs, which scattered like hail when they were discharged. " Again the assailants rushed up... | |
 | William Francis Patrick Napier - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1846 - 636 pages
...being set, the planks moved, and the unhappy soldiers, falling forward on the spikes, rolled down upon the ranks behind. Then the Frenchmen, shouting at...rushed up the breaches, and ' again the sword-blades, immoveable and impassable, stopped their charge, and the hissing shells and thundering powder-barrels... | |
 | William Francis Patrick Napier - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1834 - 642 pages
...being set the planks moved, and the unhappy soldiers, falling forward on the spikes, rolled down upon the ranks behind. Then the Frenchmen, shouting at...charge contained a small cylinder of wood stuck full of leaden slugs, which scattered like hail when they were discharged. Again the assailants rushed up the... | |
 | 1834 - 426 pages
...being set, the planks moved, and the unhappy soldiers, falling forward on the spikes, rolled down upon the ranks behind. Then the Frenchmen, shouting at...charge, contained a small cylinder of wood stuck full of leaden slugs, which scattered like hail when they were discharged. Again the assailants rushed up the... | |
 | 1834 - 764 pages
...being set, the planks moved, and the unhappy soldiers, falling forward on the spikes, rolled down upon the ranks behind. Then the Frenchmen, shouting at...charge, contained a small cylinder of wood stuck full of leaden slugs, which scattered like hail when they were discharged. Again the assailants rushed up the... | |
 | 1834 - 604 pages
...moved, and the unhappy soldiers, falling forward on the spikes, rolled down upon the ranks behind. There the Frenchmen, shouting at the success of their stratagem,...contained a small cylinder of wood, stuck full of leaden slugs, which scattered like hail when they were discharged. " Again the assailants rushed up... | |
 | 1834 - 734 pages
...set, the planks moved, and the unhappy soldiers, falling forward on the 1 spikes, rolled down upon the ranks behind. Then the Frenchmen, shouting at...musket, in addition to its ordinary charge, contained u small cylinder of wood stuck lull of leaden slugs, which scattered like hail when they were discharged.... | |
 | Memoirs - 1835 - 460 pages
...soldiers, falling forward on the spikes, rolled down upon the ranks behind. Then the Frenchmen, exulting at the success of their stratagem, and leaping forward, plied their shot with terrible rapidity ; fur every man had several muskets, and each musket, in addition to its ordinary charge, contained... | |
 | Thomas Smart Hughes - Great Britain - 1836 - 348 pages
...French, shouting at the success of their stratagem, plied their muskets, of which every man had several; and each musket, in addition to its ordinary charge, contained a small wooden cylinder, stuck full of leaden slugs, which scattered f• / like hail in the discharge : again... | |
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... chained together and set deep in the ruins; and for ten feet in front the ascent was covered with loose planks, studded with sharp iron points, on which the feet of the foremost being set, the planks moved, and the unhappy soldiers, falling forward... 
