| 1813 - 750 pages
...spirit and promptness, that many of the enemy fell in their enclosed barracks, which were set on fir« by our troops ; — at this point the further energies...end — light and adverse winds continued, and our larger vessels were still far off.. The enemy turned the heavy ordnance of the battery to the interior... | |
| William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1813 - 442 pages
...which was executed \viih such spirit and promptness, that ma ny of the enemy fell in their enclosed barracks, which were set on fire by our troops ; —...reduced by fieldpieces, had we been provided with ihem : the fire of the gun-boats proved inefficient to attain that end — light and adverse winds... | |
| Benjamin Flower - 1813 - 438 pages
...enemy tell in their enclosed banacks, which »ere set on fire by our troops ;— at this point ˇhe further energies of the troops became unavailing....battery could not be carried by assault, nor reduced by field pieces, had we been provided with them : the fire of the &un boats proved inefficient to attain... | |
| English poetry - 1814 - 1112 pages
...Drummond, which was executed with such spirit and promptness, that many of the enemy fell in their enclosed barracks, which were set on fire by our troops : at...that end : light and adverse winds continued, and our larger vessels were still far off. The enemy turned the heavy ordnance of the battery to the interior... | |
| Thomas H. Palmer - United States - 1814 - 548 pages
...Drummond, which was executed with such spirit and promptness, that many of the enemy fell in their enclosed barracks, which were set on fire by our troops; at...end — light and adverse winds continued, and our larger vessels were still far off. The enemy turned the heavy ordnance of the battery to the interior... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1814 - 830 pages
...Drummond, which was executed with such spirit and promptness, that many of the enemy fell in their enclosed barracks, which were set on fire by our troops, —...battery could not be carried by assault, nor reduced by field pieees, had we been provided with them: the fire of the gun-boats proved inefficient to attain... | |
| Walter Scott - Europe - 1815 - 770 pages
...Drummond, which was executed with such spirit and promptness, that many of the enemy fell in their enclosed barracks, which were set on fire by our troops ; at...end — light and adverse winds continued, and our larger vessels were still far off. The enemy turned the heavy ordnance of the battery to the interior... | |
| Europe - 1815 - 772 pages
...Drummond, which was executed with such spirit and promptness, that many of the enemy fell in their enclosed barracks, which were set on fire by our troops ; at...been provided with them : the fire of the gun-boats proted inefficient to attain that end — light and adverse winds continued, and our larger vessels... | |
| William James - Ontario - 1818 - 520 pages
...Drumraoud, which was executed with such spirit and promptness, that many of the enemy fell in their enclosed barracks, which were set on fire by our troops ; —...that end : light and adverse winds continued, and our larger vessels were still far off. The enemy turned the heavy ordnance of the battery to the interior... | |
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