 | Thomas Arnold - English literature - 1876 - 564 pages
...went headlong down the ascent. The rain flowed after in streams discolored with blood ; and fifteen hundred unwounded men, the remnant of six thousand...British soldiers, stood triumphant on the fatal hill." Biography : its Divisions ; Diaries, Letters. This branch of literature opens with autobiographies,... | |
 | Joel Tyler Headley - 1876 - 708 pages
...went headlong down the steep, The rain flowed after in streams, discoloured with blood, and fifteen hundred unwounded men, the remnant of six thousand...unconquerable British soldiers \ stood triumphant on the Mtt." The fight was done, and fifteen thousand men lay piled in mangled heaps along that hill and in... | |
 | James Birchall - Great Britain - 1876 - 970 pages
...volleys, until at length, the French gave way like a loosened cliff, and went headlong down the steep. Eighteen hundred unwounded men, the remnant of six thousand unconquerable British soldiers, were all that then stood triumphant on the fatal hill. The Portuguese and Germans, with the victorious... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1878 - 316 pages
...the mighty mass gave way, and like a loosened cliff went headlong down the steep ; the rain flowed after in streams discoloured with blood, and eighteen hundred unwounded men, the remnant of sis thousand unconquerable British soldiers, stood triumphant on the fatal hill. 192. To the Earl of... | |
 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1879 - 238 pages
...the mighty mass, breaking off like a loosened cliff, went headlong down the steep : the rain flowed after in streams discoloured with blood, and eighteen...British soldiers, stood triumphant on the fatal hill. XXL WATERLOO GREEN. , [While the French were being pressed hard in Spain, Napoleon's empire broke down... | |
 | Titus Livius - 1879 - 348 pages
...the mighty mass gave way, and like a loosened cliff went headlong down the steep ; the rain flowed after in streams discoloured with blood, and eighteen...British soldiers, stood triumphant on the fatal hill. 192. To the Earl of Chesterfield. — 7th January, 1755. — Seven years, my Lord, have now passed,... | |
 | Palaestra Oxoniensis - 1879 - 176 pages
...the mighty mass gave way, and like a loosened cliff went headlong down the steep ; the rain flowed after in streams discoloured with blood, and eighteen...British soldiers, stood triumphant on the fatal hill. 192. To the Earl of Chesterfield.— 7th January, 1755. — Seven years, my Lord, have now passed,... | |
 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1879 - 708 pages
...the mighty mass, breaking off like a loosened cliff, went headlong down the steep : the rain flowed after in streams discoloured with blood, and eighteen...British soldiers, stood triumphant on the fatal hill. XXI. WATERLOO. GREEN. [While the French were being pressed hard in Spain, Napoleon's empire broke down... | |
 | Gordon Campbell - Real property - 1879 - 152 pages
...the steep ; the rain flowed after in streams discoloured with blood, and eighteen hundred unwouuded men, the remnant of six thousand unconquerable British soldiers, stood triumphant on the fatal hill. 192. To the Earl of Chesterfield.— 7th January, 1755. — Seven years, my Lord, have now passed,... | |
 | George Alfred Henty - Fiction - 1880 - 416 pages
...the mighty mass breaking off like a loosened cliff, went headlong down the steep ; the rain flowed after in streams discoloured with blood, and eighteen...British soldiers, stood triumphant on the fatal hill" While this dreadful fight was going on, Hamilton's and Collier's Portuguese divisions, ten thousand... | |
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... like a loosened cliff, went headlong down the steep ; the rain flowed after in streams discoloured with blood, and eighteen hundred unwounded men, the remnant of six thousand unconquerable British soldiers, stood triumphant on the fatal hill. 
