 | History - 1834 - 560 pages
...dissolve in their own corruption, or to be licked up by the flames of the burning houses as the defense became contracted. " The suburb, the greatest part...testimony to the constancy of the besieged. " Palafox being now sick, and the popular leaders, who had principally contributed to keep up the resolution... | |
 | History - 1834 - 562 pages
...dissolve in their own corruption, or to be licked up by the flames of the burning houses as the defense became contracted. " The suburb, the greatest part...dreadful testimony to the constancy of the besieged " Pulafox being now sick, and the popular leaders, who had principally contributed to keep up the resolution... | |
 | Arthur Thomas Malkin - History - 1835 - 440 pages
...in the hands of the French; 16,000 shells thrown during the bombardment, and the explosion of 45,000 pounds of powder in the mines, had shaken the city to its foundations, and the bones of more than 40,000 persons of every ag-e and sex bore dreadful testimony to the constancy of the besieged. " Palafox... | |
 | William Francis Patrick Napier - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1839 - 866 pages
...were from four to five hundred ; the living were unable to bury the dead, and thousands of carcases, scattered about the streets and court-yards, or piled...sex, bore dreadful testimony to the constancy of the besieged.1 Palafox was sick, and of the plebeian chiefs, the curate of St. Gil, the lemonade seller... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...atmosphere, and the predisposition to disease, that th« slightest wound gangrened and became incurable. The suburb, the greatest part of the walls, and onefourth...dreadful testimony to the constancy of the besieged. At this time the deaths were from four to five hundred daily: the living were unable to bury the dead;... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Fourth of July orations - 1845 - 108 pages
...corruption or to be licked up by the flames of the burning houses. The city was shaken to its foundation by sixteen thousand shells thrown during the bombardment,...fortyfive thousand pounds of powder in the mines, while the bones of forty thousand persons of every age and both sexes, bore dreadful testimony to the... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1846 - 42 pages
...corruption, or to be licked up by the flames of the burning houses. The city was shaken to its foundation by sixteen thousand shells thrown during the bombardment,...forty-five thousand pounds of powder in the mines, while the bones of forty thousand persons, of every age, and both sexes, bore dreadful testimony to... | |
 | English literature - 1846 - 860 pages
...corruption, or to be licked up by the flames of the burning houses. The city was shaken to its foundation by sixteen thousand shells thrown during the bombardment,...forty-five thousand pounds of powder in the mines, while the bones of forty thousand persons, of every age, and both sexes, bore dreadful testimony to... | |
 | Arthur Thomas Malkin - History - 1846 - 782 pages
...; 16,000 shells thrown during the bombardment, and the explosion of 45,000 pounds of powder in-the mines, had shaken the city to its foundations, and the bones of more than 40,000 persons of every age and sex bore dreadful testimony to the constancy of the besieged. " Palafox... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1847 - 850 pages
...the hands of the French ; 16,000 shells thrown during the bombardment, and the explosion of 45,000 pounds of powder in the mines, had shaken the city to its foundations ; and the bones of more than 40,000 persons, of every age and both sexes, bore dreadful testimony to the constancy of the besieged."... | |
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The suburb, the greatest part of the walls and one-fourth of the houses were in the hands of the French ; sixteen thousand shells thrown during the bombardment, and the explosion of forty-five thousand pounds of powder in the mines, had shaken the city... 
