... and traverses, in the horn-work, on the ramparts of the curtain, and inside of the town opposite to the breach, and ready to pour a most destructive fire of musketry on both flanks of the approach to the top of the narrow ridge of the curtain. The Edinburgh Annual Register - Page ccivedited by - 1815Full view - About this book
| 1813 - 750 pages
...'polite to the breach, and ready to pour a most destructive ¡ire of musketry on * ' ' т ii-iKs of ihe approach to the top of the. narrow ridge of the curtain. Every *JA^~ that the moat determined bravery could attempt was rcjxaieuly tried in vain. •" 4-»*^ troops,... | |
| William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1813 - 442 pages
...itcouh} devise, so that great numbers of men were covered by entrenchments and traverses, in • he horn-work, on the ramparts of the; curtain, and inside of the town opposite to he breach, and ready to pour a most destructive fire of musketry on botlt Banks of he approach to the... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1814 - 830 pages
...defence which art could devise, so that great numbers of men were covered by entrenchments and tiaverses, in the horn-work, on the ramparts of the curtain,...curtain. Every thing that the most determined bravery tould attempt was repeatedly tried in vain by the troops, who were brought forward from the trenches... | |
| Francis L. Clarke, William Dunlap - Generals - 1814 - 446 pages
...• of the curtain, and inside the town opposite to the breach, and now stood ready to pour a roost destructive fire of musketry on both flanks of the...approach to the top of the narrow ridge of the curtain. In vain were the assailants brought forward from the trenches in succession— no roan outlived the... | |
| English poetry - 1814 - 1112 pages
...which military art and skill could devise ; and thus, covered themselves by intrenchments, they were ready to pour a most destructive fire of musketry on both flanks of the approach to that point where the breach was practicable. The British troops were brought forward from the trenches... | |
| Europe - 1815 - 772 pages
...hundred volunteers of the fourth division, under Major Rose, of the 20th foot. e«iv and traversed, iri the horn-work, on the ramparts of the curtain, and...could attempt was repeatedly tried in vain by the troops, who •were brought forward from the trenches in succession. No man outlived the attempt to... | |
| Hewson Clarke - 1815 - 888 pages
...means of defeiice which art could device, so that great numbers of men were covered by entrenchments, and traverses in the horn-work, on the ramparts of...to the breach, and ready to pour a most destructive 6re of musketry on both flanks of the approach to the top of the narrow ridge of the curtain. " Every... | |
| Edward Seymour (of the Inner temple.) - 1815 - 610 pages
...covered by intrenchraents and traverses, in the horn work, oh the ram'parls of the curtain; and inside the town opposite to the breach, and ready to pour a most destructive fire of musketry on both sides of the approach to the top of the narrow ridge of the curtain. " In this almost desperate state... | |
| Edward Baines - Europe - 1818 - 746 pages
...covered by intrenchments and traverses in the horn work, on the ramparts of the curtain — and within the town, opposite to the breach, and ready to pour...could attempt, was repeatedly tried in vain by the troops, who were brought forward from the trenches in succession. No man outlived the attempt to gain... | |
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