 ... early. Gathering in dark groups and leaning on their muskets, they looked up with sullen desperation at the Trinidad, while the enemy, stepping out on the ramparts, and aiming their shots by the light of the fire-balls which they threw over, asked...  Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country - Page 193edited by - 1854Full view - About this book
 | 1834 - 614 pages
...the troops did not much notice it after the partial failure of one attack, which had been made early. Gathering in dark groups, and leanIng on their muskets, they looked up with sullen desperation on the Trinidad, while the enemy, stepping out on the ramparts, and aiming their shot by the .light... | |
 | William Francis Patrick Napier - 1834 - 642 pages
...troops did not much notice it after the parAprff t'a^ fa^ure of one attack which had been made early. Gathering in dark groups and leaning on their muskets,...victims fell, " Why they did not come into Badajos?" In this dreadful situation, while the dead were lying in heaps and others continually falling, the... | |
 | William Francis Patrick Napier - 1846 - 636 pages
...troops did not much notice it after the partial failure of one attack which had been April] made early. Gathering in dark groups and leaning on their muskets...as their victims fell, " Why they did not come into Badajosr 1812 col. Shaw JJ .,„. In this dreadful situation, while the dead were lying in heaps and... | |
 | 1834 - 426 pages
...the troops did not much notice it after the partial failure of one attack, which had been made early. Gathering in dark groups, and leaning on their muskets,...as their victims fell, ' Why they did not come into Badajoz?' " In this dreadful situation, while the dead were lying in heaps and others continually falling,... | |
 | 1834 - 604 pages
...the troops did not much notice it after the partial failure of one attack, which had been made early. Gathering in dark groups, and leaning on their muskets, they looked up with sullen desperation on the Trinidad, while the enemy, stepping out on the ramparts, and aiming their shot by the .light... | |
 | Memoirs - 1835 - 460 pages
...spent in these vain efforts convinced the soldiers that the breach of the Trinidad was impregnable. Gathering in dark groups, and leaning on their muskets, they looked up with sullen desperation ; while the enemy, stepping out on the ramparts, and aiming their shots by the light of the fire-balls... | |
 | Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - 1839 - 900 pages
...the troops did not much notice it after the partial failure of one attack which had been made early. Gathering in dark groups and leaning on their muskets,...which they threw over, asked, as their victims fell, " fPliy they did not come into Badajos ?" In this dreadful situation, while the dead were lying in... | |
 | Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - 1839 - 890 pages
...the troops did not much notice it after the partial failure of one attack which had been made early. Gathering in dark groups and leaning on their muskets,...ramparts, and aiming their shots by the light of the Gre-balls which they threw over, asked, as their victims fell, " Why they did not come into Badajos?"... | |
 | Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - 1842 - 516 pages
...it after the partial failure of one attack which had been mnde early. Gathering in dark groups nnd leaning on their muskets, they looked up with sullen...over, asked, as their victims fell, " Why they did not cmne into Badajoz f" In this dreadful situation, while the dead were lying in heaps and others continually... | |
 | Andrew Redman Bonar - 1845 - 472 pages
...the troops did not much notice it after the partial failure of one attack which had been made early. Gathering in dark groups, and leaning on their muskets, they looked up with sullen desperation at Trinidad, while the enemy, stepping out on the ramparts, and aiming their shots by the light of the... | |
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