Works, Volumen15,Partes8-9Chapman & Hall, 1865 |
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... side of Olmütz and of the River ( east side lies ' mostly under water ) , there is the bombarding ; seventy - one heavy " " " 6 28th May - 26th June 1758 . guns ; Chap . XII . 23 SIEGE OF OLMUTZ .
... side of Olmütz and of the River ( east side lies ' mostly under water ) , there is the bombarding ; seventy - one heavy " " " 6 28th May - 26th June 1758 . guns ; Chap . XII . 23 SIEGE OF OLMUTZ .
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... side too . Loudon , on the west side , goes by Muglitz , Hof ; * making a long deep bend far to westward and hillward of all the Prussian posted corps and precautions , and altogether hidden from them ; Loudon aims to be in Troppau ...
... side too . Loudon , on the west side , goes by Muglitz , Hof ; * making a long deep bend far to westward and hillward of all the Prussian posted corps and precautions , and altogether hidden from them ; Loudon aims to be in Troppau ...
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... side ; infantry on the left , cavalry on the right , as the ground is leveller there . Length of the Train in statute miles , as it jumbles along at this point , is not given ; but we know it was many miles ; that horses and wagoners ...
... side ; infantry on the left , cavalry on the right , as the ground is leveller there . Length of the Train in statute miles , as it jumbles along at this point , is not given ; but we know it was many miles ; that horses and wagoners ...
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... side of Olmütz , mazing up and down : Friedrich observing him , till he should ripen to something definite , followed his bombarding the while ; perhaps having hopes of wager of battle ensuing . Of the disaster at Dom- 2d - 8th July ...
... side of Olmütz , mazing up and down : Friedrich observing him , till he should ripen to something definite , followed his bombarding the while ; perhaps having hopes of wager of battle ensuing . Of the disaster at Dom- 2d - 8th July ...
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... side of the Rhine , finds the French drawn - up at Crefeld ( June 23d ) ; 47,000 of them versus 33,000 : in altogether intricate ground ; canal- ditches , osier - thickets , farm - villages , peat - bogs . Ground defensible ' against ...
... side of the Rhine , finds the French drawn - up at Crefeld ( June 23d ) ; 47,000 of them versus 33,000 : in altogether intricate ground ; canal- ditches , osier - thickets , farm - villages , peat - bogs . Ground defensible ' against ...
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Página 221 - ... more address to lead an audience from despondency to sudden exultation, than Accident had here prepared to excite the passions of a whole People. They despaired ; they triumphed ; and they wept, — for Wolfe had fallen in the hour of victory ! Joy, grief, curiosity, astonishment, were painted in every countenance : the more they inquired, the higher their admiration rose. Not an incident but was heroic and affecting.
Página 243 - Teutschland, with such pieties and unconquerable silent valours, such opulences human and divine, amid its wreck of new and old confusions, is not to be cut in Four, and made to dance to the piping of Versailles or another. Far the contrary ! To Versailles itself there has gone forth, Versailles may read it or not, the writing on the wall : ' Thou art weighed in the balance, and found wanting...
Página 127 - ... history of every wound, and grow themselves soldiers, before they find strength for the field. But this were nothing, did we not feel the alternate insolence of either army, as it happens to advance or retreat...
Página 138 - I have seen what I never thought to be possible, — a single line of infantry break through three lines of cavalry, ranked in order of battle, and tumble them to ruin...
Página 175 - ... (loss not at all considerable, in a War of such dimensions !) " The British troops behaved upon this occasion with as much " generosity as courage; and it deserves admiration, that, in an affair " of this kind, the town and the inhabitants suffered very little; which " is owing to the good order Brigadier Burgoyne kept up even in the