The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume 1J. Cumberland, 1828 |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 467 - The English uniform, which had hitherto served as a rallying point for the old garrison wherever it appeared, was now in the dusk mistaken for French, the newly arrived Turks not distinguishing between one hat and another in the crowd, and thus many a severe blow from the sabre was parried by our officers, among whom Colonel Douglas, Mr.
Pagina 323 - People of Egypt! you will be told that I am come to destroy your religion : do not- believe it. Reply, that I am come to restore your rights, to punish usurpatois ; and that I reverence more than the Mameloucs themselves, God, his prophet Mahomet, and the Koran!
Pagina 467 - ... and then close with them, according to the Turkish mode of war. The column thus mounted the breach unmolested, and descended from the rampart into the Pasha's garden, where, in a very few minutes, the bravest and most advanced amongst them lay headless corpses, the sabre, with the addition of a dagger in the other hand, proving more than a match for the bayonet...
Pagina 466 - This amicable contest, as to who should defend the breach, occasioned a rush of Turks to the spot, and thus time was gained for the arrival of the first body of Hassan Bey's troops.
Pagina 467 - Buonaparte will, no doubt, renew the attack, the breach being, as above described, perfectly practicable for fifty men abreast ; indeed the town is not, nor ever has been defensible, according to the rules of art ; but according to every other rule, it must and shall be defended...
Pagina 421 - Jean d'Acre, where they would have played over again the same scene that they had done at Jaffa. In justice to the lives of my soldiers, as every general ought to consider himself as their father, and them as his children, I could not allow this. To leave as a guard a portion of my army, already small and reduced in number, in consequence of the breach of faith of those wretches ; was impossible. Indeed, to have acted otherwise than as I did, would probably have caused the destruction of my whole...
Pagina 468 - Tis on the issue of this conflict, that depends the opinion of the multitude of spectators on the surrounding hills, who wait only to see how it ends to join the victor ; and with such a reinforcement for the execution of his known projects, Constantinople and even Vienna must feel the shock.
Pagina 208 - The kings of Sardinia and Naples, the Pope, and the Duke of Parma, are separated from the coalition. You have expelled the English from Leghorn, Genoa, and Corsica. Still higher destinies await you. You will prove yourselves worthy of them. Of all the foes who have combined to stifle our Republic in its birth, the Emperor alone remains.
Pagina 467 - Savage, midshipman of the Theseus. The enemy began a new breach, by an incessant fire directed to the southward of the lodgment, every shot knocking down whole sheets of a wall, much less solid than that of the tower, on which they had expended so much time and ammunition. The...
Pagina 466 - Many fugitives returned with us to the breach, which we found defended by a few brave Turks, whose most destructive missile weapons were heavy stones, which, striking the assailants on the head, overthrew the foremost down the slope, and impeded the progress of the rest. A succession, however, ascended to the assault, the heap of ruins between the two parties serving as a breastwork for both, the muzzles of their muskets touching, and the spear-heads of the standards locked.