The SubalternW. Blackwood, 1826 - 373 頁 |
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... tirailleurs , advanced , with loud shouts , and every show of de- termination . To remain where we were , was to expose ourselves to the risk of being cut to pieces in a hollow way , the banks of which were higher than our heads , and ...
... tirailleurs , advanced , with loud shouts , and every show of de- termination . To remain where we were , was to expose ourselves to the risk of being cut to pieces in a hollow way , the banks of which were higher than our heads , and ...
第 130 頁
George Robert Gleig. confusion ; but the French tirailleurs are by no means in disorder when they appear so . They are admirable skirmishers ; and they gave our people , this day , a good deal of employment , before they again betook ...
George Robert Gleig. confusion ; but the French tirailleurs are by no means in disorder when they appear so . They are admirable skirmishers ; and they gave our people , this day , a good deal of employment , before they again betook ...
第 174 頁
... tirailleurs ; but neither did the latter succeed in driving their opponents through it , nor could the former deliver themselves from the an- noyance of continual assaults . It was peculiarly the business of the corps to which I ...
... tirailleurs ; but neither did the latter succeed in driving their opponents through it , nor could the former deliver themselves from the an- noyance of continual assaults . It was peculiarly the business of the corps to which I ...
第 331 頁
... on which my reader and I have so long looked , was abandoned . The tirailleurs fled , the riflemen pursued , the little column in scarlet pushed on in good order and with a quick pace , whilst on the brow of CHAPTER XXII . 331.
... on which my reader and I have so long looked , was abandoned . The tirailleurs fled , the riflemen pursued , the little column in scarlet pushed on in good order and with a quick pace , whilst on the brow of CHAPTER XXII . 331.
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第 58 頁 - Of these various noises, the greater number now began to subside, as night passed on ; and long before dawn there was a fearful silence. Sleep had succeeded inebriety with the bulk of the army, — of the poor wretches who groaned and shrieked three hours ago, many...
第 50 頁 - This was the first time that a town was stormed by daylight since the commencement of the war, and the storming party were enabled distinctly to perceive the preparations which were making for their reception. There was, therefore, something, not only interesting but novel, in beholding the muzzles of the enemy's cannon, from the castle and other batteries, turned in such a direction as to flank the breaches ; whilst the glancing of bayonets, and the occasional rise of caps and feathers, gave notice...
第 42 頁 - Nor was this all that was done to annoy the assailants — night after night petty sorties were made, with no other apparent design than to disturb the repose and to harass the spirits, of the besiegers ; for the attacking party seldom attempted to advance farther than the first parallel, and it was uniformly beaten back by the piquets and reserve. During the last ten days, the besieging army had been busily employed in bringing up ammunition, and in dragging into battery one of the most splendid...
第 145 頁 - We hastened towards the house, and just as we neared the door, a ca9adore rushed out, and attempted to elude us. But he was hotly pursued and taken. When he was brought back, we entered the cottage, and to our horror, we saw an old woman, in all probability the wife of the aged peasant, lying dead in the kitchen. The desperate Portuguese pretended not to deny having perpetrated these murders.
第 84 頁 - Nor were we disappointed ; — we found both, and both greatly superior in quality to any which had fallen to our lot since we landed. The reader will easily believe that a man who has spent some of the best years of his life amid scenes of violence and bloodshed, must have witnessed many spectacles highly revolting to the purest feelings of our nature ; but a more appalling picture of war passed by — of war in its darkest colours, — those which distinguish it when its din is over — than was...
第 44 頁 - In the meantime, however, the enemy had not been remiss in their endeavours to silence the fire of the besiegers, and to dismount their guns. They had, indeed, exercised their artillery with so much good-will, that most of the cannon found in the place, after its capture, were unserviceable, being melted at the touchholes, or otherwise damaged from too frequent use. But they fought, on the present occasion, under every imaginable disadvantage; for not only was our artillery much more than a match...