Recollections of Military Service, in 1813, 1814 & 1815, Through Germany, Holland, and France: Including Some Details of the Battles of Quatre Bras and Waterloo |
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... brought the enemy to action on the 16th , whom he entirely defeated and dispersed , with the loss of 2000 killed and wounded , and 1500 prisoners , with eight pieces of cannon . A grand plan of co - operation was now begun to be acted ...
... brought the enemy to action on the 16th , whom he entirely defeated and dispersed , with the loss of 2000 killed and wounded , and 1500 prisoners , with eight pieces of cannon . A grand plan of co - operation was now begun to be acted ...
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... brought forward the whole of the French cavalry , and made a desperate charge on the centre of the Allies , which for a time was forced ; but a charge of six regiments of Austrian cuirassiers , which nothing could withstand , restored ...
... brought forward the whole of the French cavalry , and made a desperate charge on the centre of the Allies , which for a time was forced ; but a charge of six regiments of Austrian cuirassiers , which nothing could withstand , restored ...
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... brought up , fixed , and commenced firing . It must not be supposed , however , that we had been doing all this unobserved by the enemy from the town , or that we did not receive from them some very striking inti- mations of their ...
... brought up , fixed , and commenced firing . It must not be supposed , however , that we had been doing all this unobserved by the enemy from the town , or that we did not receive from them some very striking inti- mations of their ...
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... brought some despatches from the Ad- miral , for General Graham . In their passage up , they had to pass several forts , which fired a few shots , but without effect . Though they had to repass the same forts , that circumstance did not ...
... brought some despatches from the Ad- miral , for General Graham . In their passage up , they had to pass several forts , which fired a few shots , but without effect . Though they had to repass the same forts , that circumstance did not ...
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... brought the disastrous intelligence , that the general who had been left with the troops before the town , and whose instructions were to watch the place , until Sir Thomas arrived to his assistance with the light brigade , had most ...
... brought the disastrous intelligence , that the general who had been left with the troops before the town , and whose instructions were to watch the place , until Sir Thomas arrived to his assistance with the light brigade , had most ...
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Page 34 - Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.
Page 265 - With no friend but his sword, and no fortune but his talents, he rushed into the lists where rank, and wealth, and genius had arrayed themselves, and competition fled from him as from the glance of destiny. He knew no motive...
Page 264 - Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne, a sceptred hermit, wrapt in the solitude of his own originality. A mind bold, independent, and decisive — a will, despotic in its dictates — an energy that distanced expedition, and a conscience pliable to every touch of interest, marked the outline of this extraordinary...
Page 265 - Subsidiary to this, there was no creed that he did not profess, there was no opinion that he did not promulgate; in the hope of a dynasty, he upheld the Crescent; for the sake of a divorce, he bowed before the Cross ; the orphan of St. Louis, he became the adopted child of the Republic; and, with a parricidal ingratitude, on the ruins both of the throne and tribune, he reared the throne of his despotism.
Page 244 - The lancer couch'd his ruthless spear, And hurrying as to havoc near, The cohorts' eagles flew. In one dark torrent, broad and strong, The advancing onset...
Page 270 - Kings may learn from him that their safest study, as well as their noblest, is the interest of the people ; the people are taught by him that there is no despotism so stupendous against which they have not a resource; and to those who would rise upon the ruins of both, he is a living lesson that if ambition can raise them from the lowest station, it can also prostrate them from the highest.
Page 214 - Each fights, as in his arm th' important day And all the fate of his great monarch lay : A thousand glorious actions, that might claim Triumphant laurels, and immortal fame, Confus'd in crowds of glorious actions lie, And troops of heroes undistinguish'd die.
Page 270 - ... a model, and without a shadow. His fall, like his life, baffled all speculation. In short, his whole history was like a dream to the world, and no man can tell how or why he was awakened from the reverie.
Page 61 - Advancing at the head of their victorious forces, each upon his own side, the Emperor of Russia, the King of Prussia, and the Crown Prince of Sweden, met and greeted each other in the great square of the city, where they were soon joined by the Emperor of Austria.
Page 158 - Recover those eagles which you had at Ulm, at Austerlitz, at Jena, at Eylau, at Friedland, at Tudela, at Eckmuhl, at Essling, at Wagram, at Smolensko, at Moscow, at Lutzen, at Wurken, at Montmirail.