 Behind them was the plain in which the city stood, and beyond the city, thousands of carriages and animals and non-combatants, men, women and children, were crowding together, in all the madness of terror, and as the English shot went booming overhead...  Battles of the Nineteenth Century - Pagina 580door Archibald Forbes - 1896Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1835 - 1056 pagina’s
...overhead," says an eye-witness, " the vast 1 crowd started and swerved with a convulsive move- !313. ment, while a dull and horrid sound of distress arose ; but there was no hope, no stay for either army or multitude.'" Eighty pieces of cannon, jammed close1 Napier. together near Vittoria,... | |
 | William Francis Patrick Napier - 1836 - 748 pagina’s
...were crowding together, in all the madness of terror, and as the English shot went booming over head the vast crowd started and swerved with a convulsive...It was the wreck of a nation. However the courage of the French soldier was not yet quelled, Reille on whom every thing now depended, maintained his... | |
 | Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - 1836 - 754 pagina’s
...were crowding together, in all the madness of terror, and as the English shot went booming over head the vast crowd started and swerved with a convulsive...It was the wreck of a nation. However the courage of the French soldier was not yet quelled, Reille on whom every thing now depended, maintained his... | |
 | William Francis Patrick Napier - 1836 - 794 pagina’s
...were crowding together, in all the madness of terror, and as the English shot went booming over head the vast crowd started and swerved with a convulsive...It was the wreck of a nation. However the courage of the French soldier was not yet quelled, Rcille on whom every thing now depended, maintained his... | |
 | Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - 1839 - 1048 pagina’s
...madness of terror, and as the English shot wenl booming over-head the vast crowd started and swerved wilh a convulsive movement, while a dull and horrid sound of distress arose ; bul Ihcre was no hope, no slay for army or multitude. It was the wreck of a nation. However the courage... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1841 - 948 pagina’s
...off any of the carriages; and " as the English shot went booming overhead," says an eye-witness, " the vast crowd started and swerved with a convulsive...and horrid sound of distress arose ; but there was ' Napier. no l,Ope, no stay for either army or multitude."" Eighty pieces of cannon, jammed close together... | |
 | Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - 1842 - 500 pagina’s
...mile in front of Vittoria. Behind them was the plain in which the city stood, and beyond the city, thousands of carriages and animals and non-combatants,...It was the wreck of a nation. However the courage of the French soldier was not yet quelled, Reille on whom every thing now depended, maintained his... | |
 | 1847 - 166 pagina’s
...which the French could retreat, that to Pamplona, and on that, as the English shot boomed over head, the vast crowd started and swerved with a convulsive movement, while a dull horrid sound of distress arose, but there was no hope, no stay for either army or multitude. Even that... | |
 | William Francis Patrick Napier - 1852 - 570 pagina’s
...were huddling together in all the madness of terror, and as the English shot went booming OTer head, the vast crowd started and swerved with a convulsive...for army or multitude. It was the wreck of a nation. French courage was not yet quelled. Reille on whom every thing now depended maintained his post on... | |
 | Sir Archibald Alison - 1855 - 384 pagina’s
...off any of the carriages ; " and as the English shot went booming overhead," says an eyewitness, " the vast crowd started and swerved with a convulsive...distress arose ; but there •was no hope, no stay for either army or multitude." Eighty pieces of cannon, jammed close together, near Vittoria, on the only... | |
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