The Battle of Waterloo: Containing the Accounts Published by Authority, British and Foreign, and Other Relative Documents, with Circumstantial Details, Previous and After the Battle, from a Variety of Authentic and Original Sources : to which is Added an Alphabetical List of the Officers Killed and Wounded, from 15th to 26th June, 1815, and the Total Loss of Each RegimentJ. Booth, 1815 - 98 sivua |
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Tulokset 1 - 5 kokonaismäärästä 29
Sivu ii
... town was one universal scene of bustle : the soldiers were seen assembling from all parts in the Place Royale , with their knap- sacks upon their backs ; some taking leave of their wives and children ; others sitting down uncon ...
... town was one universal scene of bustle : the soldiers were seen assembling from all parts in the Place Royale , with their knap- sacks upon their backs ; some taking leave of their wives and children ; others sitting down uncon ...
Sivu v
... town to join the army . Sir Thomas Picton mounted upon his charger , in soldier - like style , with his reconnoitring - glass slung across his shoulder , left Brussels in the highest spirits , never to return . The Duke of Wellington ...
... town to join the army . Sir Thomas Picton mounted upon his charger , in soldier - like style , with his reconnoitring - glass slung across his shoulder , left Brussels in the highest spirits , never to return . The Duke of Wellington ...
Sivu ix
... town at full speed , as if the enemy were at their heels ; and immediately the heavy baggage waggons , which had been harnessed from the moment of the first alarm , set off full gallop down La Montagne de la Cais , and through every ...
... town at full speed , as if the enemy were at their heels ; and immediately the heavy baggage waggons , which had been harnessed from the moment of the first alarm , set off full gallop down La Montagne de la Cais , and through every ...
Sivu xi
... town , and who had , it is supposed , met with some straggling party of the enemy . It was also said , that a foraging party of French had come bravadoing to the gates of the city , summoning it to surrender . A considerable number of ...
... town , and who had , it is supposed , met with some straggling party of the enemy . It was also said , that a foraging party of French had come bravadoing to the gates of the city , summoning it to surrender . A considerable number of ...
Sivu xiii
... town and vil- lage , when it was believed that the French were vic- torious - the execrations with which their very names were uttered - the curses , not loud but deep , which fear half repressed , betrayed how rooted and sincere was ...
... town and vil- lage , when it was believed that the French were vic- torious - the execrations with which their very names were uttered - the curses , not loud but deep , which fear half repressed , betrayed how rooted and sincere was ...
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Allied Armies arms arrived artillery attack Baron battalion battle of Waterloo Bonaparte brave brigade British Brunswick Brussels Capt Captain cavalry charge Charleroi Colonel column command corps Cuirassiers dead division Duke of Wellington Emperor enemy enemy's engaged English army Ensign Europe F. G. sev fell Field Marshal field of battle fire flank Fleurus force fought France French army Genappe glory heights honour horses Imperial Guard infantry K. G. L. sev killed and wounded King's German Legion Lieut Light Dragoons Ligny Lord Wellington Lordship loss Majesty's Major Marshal Blucher Marshal Grouchy Marshal Prince Blucher military morning Napoleon Napoleon Bonaparte night Nivelles numbers o'clock occupied officers Paris Picton pieces of cannon Plate position Prince Regent prisoners Prussian army Quatre Bras regiment retreat road Royal Highness Sambre Sir Thomas Picton soldiers town troops victory village Wavre whole wood
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Sivu 92 - Waterloo, has been pleased, in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty...
Sivu 53 - A victim to the factions which distract my country, and to the enmity of the greatest powers of Europe, I have terminated my political career, and I come, like Themistocles, to throw myself upon the hospitality of the British people.
Sivu 52 - My political life is terminated, and I proclaim my son under the title of Napoleon II., Emperor of the French.
Sivu 8 - Sainte, as the detachment of the light battalion of the legion which occupied it had expended all its ammunition, and the enemy occupied the only communication there was with them. The enemy repeatedly charged our infantry with his cavalry, but these attacks were uniformly unsuccessful, and they afforded opportunity to our cavalry to charge ; in one of which, Lord E.
Sivu 65 - ... and it was utterly impossible to rally a single corps. The enemy, who perceived this astonishing confusion, immediately attacked with their cavalry, and increased the disorder, and such was the confusion, owing to night coming on, that it was impossible to rally the troops, and point out to them their error. Thus a battle terminated, a day of false manoeuvres rectified, the greatest success ensured for the next day, — all was lost by a moment of panic terror.
Sivu 18 - Prussian columns, so that only two brigades of the 4th corps had arrived at the covered position which was assigned to them. The decisive moment was come ; there was not an instant to be lost. The generals did not suffer it to escape. They resolved immediately to begin the attack with the troops which they had at hand.
Sivu 36 - Chief of the General Staff of the French army; the Count de Bondy, Prefect of the Department of the Seine, being furnished with the full powers of his Excellency, the Marshal Prince of Echmuhl, Commander in Chief of the French army on one side; and MajorGeneral Baron Muffling...
Sivu 61 - Blucher, who was going towards Wavre, where he appeared to wish to take a position. At ten o'clock in the evening, the English army occupied Mount St.
Sivu 20 - ... hurrah ! and an instant after, the town was ours. It was here that, among ma.ny other equipages, the carriage of Napoleon was taken : he had just left it to mount on horseback, and, in his hurry, had forgotten in it his sword and hat.
Sivu 13 - Blucher resolved to give battle ; Lord Wellington having already put in motion, to support him, a strong division of his army, as well as his whole reserve, stationed in the environs of Brussels, and the fourth corps of the Prussian army being also on the point of arriving.