The Young Buglers: A Tale of the Peninsular WarThe next day, the bulk of Beresford's army returned to the neighborhood of Badajos, which they again invested, while a long convoy of wounded started for Lisbon. The Scudamores accompanied it as far as Campo Major, where a large hospital had been prepared for those too ill to bear the journey. Peter was still unconscious. Fever had set in upon the day after the battle, and for three weeks he lay between life and death. |
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... cavalry , scarcely offered any resistance , his men broke and fled in disorder , and the panic would have spread to the whole Spanish army , had not General Albuquerque brought up 3000 more cavalry and held the French at bay , while ...
... cavalry , scarcely offered any resistance , his men broke and fled in disorder , and the panic would have spread to the whole Spanish army , had not General Albuquerque brought up 3000 more cavalry and held the French at bay , while ...
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... cavalry now galloped up towards the portion of the line held . by the Spanish , and discharged their pistols at them , where- upon 10,000 Spanish infantry and the whole of their artillery broke and fled in wild confusion . For miles ...
... cavalry now galloped up towards the portion of the line held . by the Spanish , and discharged their pistols at them , where- upon 10,000 Spanish infantry and the whole of their artillery broke and fled in wild confusion . For miles ...
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... cavalry , ready to charge should the French endeavour to turn the British left by pushing round its foot . Fifty paces from the officers of the Norfolk Rangers sat Sir Arthur Wellesley , on horseback , watching attentively through a ...
... cavalry , ready to charge should the French endeavour to turn the British left by pushing round its foot . Fifty paces from the officers of the Norfolk Rangers sat Sir Arthur Wellesley , on horseback , watching attentively through a ...
Page 125
... cavalry regiment dashed down upon their flank , and they retired again in great disorder . Every incident of the fight could be seen from the British position on the hill , and the troops almost held their breath with excitement as the ...
... cavalry regiment dashed down upon their flank , and they retired again in great disorder . Every incident of the fight could be seen from the British position on the hill , and the troops almost held their breath with excitement as the ...
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... cavalry were ordered to charge them . The ground was , however , quite unfit for cavalry . Colonel Arentschild , a very experienced officer , who commanded the German Hussars , drew up his regiment at the edge of a deep cleft which ...
... cavalry were ordered to charge them . The ground was , however , quite unfit for cavalry . Colonel Arentschild , a very experienced officer , who commanded the German Hussars , drew up his regiment at the edge of a deep cleft which ...
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