| William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1813 - 442 pages
...could be immediately given. - The column, in filing out of the right of the trenches, was as before exposed to a heavy fire of shells and grape-shot, and a mine was exploded in the left angle of the counterscarp of the horn-work, which did great damage, but did not check the ardour of the troops in... | |
| 1813 - 592 pages
...could be imme* dlately given. The column, in filing out of the right of the trenches, was, as before, exposed to a heavy fire of shells and grape-shot, and a mine was exploded in the left angle of the ronntencarp of the horn-work, which did great damage, but did not check the ardour of the troops in... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1814 - 830 pages
...could be irnmedir ately given. The column, in filing out of the right of the trenches, was, as before, exposed to a heavy fire of shells and grape-shot, and a mine w?s exploded in the left angle of the counterscarp of the horn-work, which did great damage, but did... | |
| Hewson Clarke - 1815 - 888 pages
...description of this awful business. " The column, in filing out of the right of the trenches, was, as before, exposed to a heavy fire of shells and grape-shot ; and a mine was exploded in the left angle of the counterscarp of the horn-work, which, did great damage, but did not check the ardor of the troops-... | |
| Europe - 1815 - 772 pages
...circumstances, could be immediately given. The column, in firing out of the right trenches, was, as before, exposed to a heavy fire of shells and grape-shot, and a mine was exploded in the left angle of the counterscarp of the hornwork, which did great damage, but did not check the ardour of the troops in... | |
| Walter Scott - Europe - 1815 - 770 pages
...circumstances, could be immediately given. The column, in firing out of the right trenches, was, as before, exposed to a heavy fire of shells and grape-shot, and a mine was exploded in the leftangle of the counterscarp of the hornwork, which did great damage, but did not check the ardour... | |
| John Philippart - Great Britain - 1820 - 480 pages
...be immediately given. .. .. " The column in filing out of the right of the trenches was, as before, exposed to a heavy fire of shells and grape-shot, and a mine was exploded in the left angle of the counterscarp of the horn-work, which did great damage, but did not check the ardor of the troops in... | |
| Thomas Hamilton - 1829 - 488 pages
...storming party consisting of seven hundred and fifty volunteers from the different divisions of the army.* As the column filed out of the trenches, it became...fallacious than the external appearance of the breach. * The storming party consisted of one hundred and fifty men of the light division, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel... | |
| William Hamilton Maxwell - Generals - 1852 - 562 pages
...rushed forward to the breaches. " The column, in filing out of the right of the trenches was, as before, exposed to a heavy fire of shells and grapeshot, and a mine was exploded in the left angle of the counterscarp of the hornwork, which did great damage, but did not check the ardour of the troops in... | |
| William Hamilton Maxwell - 1858 - 310 pages
...feat of arms, that I shall give it to you. " The column in filing out of the trenches was, as before, exposed to a heavy fire of shells and grape-shot, and a mine was exploded in the left angle of the counterscarp of the horn-work, which did great damage, but did not check the ardour of the troops in... | |
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