 | Art - 1807 - 728 pages
...Grape n-hot at the corners of all the streets, musketry , hand grenades, bricks, and n-tones, Irons the tops of all the houses ; every householder, with his negroes defended hi. dwelling, each of wmn-ich was in in-n-ella fortress ¿ and it is not perhaps too much to say, than-... | |
 | 1807 - 770 pages
...troops were exposed was violent in the extreme. Grape-shot, at the corners of all thestreets, musquetry, hand-grenades, bricks, and stones, from the tops of...each of which was in itself a fortress ; and it is not, perhaps, too much to say, that tha whole male population 0.1 226 Buenos Ayres was employed in... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1807 - 544 pages
...violent in the extreme. Grape shot atthe corners of all the streets, musketry* haiidgreivades, bricjcs, and stones from the tops of all the houses, every householder-. •with his negroes defended bit dwelling, each of which was in nMlt' a fortress, and it is not perhaps, too much to say, that the... | |
 | John Whitelocke - Argentina - 1808 - 252 pages
...prisoners. The nature of the fire to which the troops were exposed, was violent in the extreme. Grape shot at the corners of all the streets, musketry, hand-grenades,...each of which was in itself a fortress, and it is not, perhaps, too much to say, that the whole male population of Buenos Ayres was employed in its defence.... | |
 | John Whitelocke - Argentina - 1808 - 250 pages
...troops were eipoped, was violent in the extreme. Grape shot at the earners of all the streets, mnsk/try, hand-grenades, bricks and stones, from the tops .of...each of which was in itself a fortress, and it is not, perhaps, too much to say, that the whole male population of Buenos Ayres was employed in its defence.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1809 - 1484 pages
...troopi were exposed, was violent in the ex. treme. Grape shot at the earners of the streets, musquetry, handgrenades, bricks, and stones from the tops of...each of which was in itself a fortress ; and it is not perhaps too much to -say, that the whole male population of lluenos Ayres was employed in it* defence.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1809 - 1138 pages
...was violent in the ex. treme. Grape shot at the corners of the streets, musquetry, hand, grenades, bricks, and stones from the tops of all the houses...each of which was in itself a fortress ; and it is not perhaps too much to say. that the whole male population of Buenos Ayres was employed in its defence.... | |
 | Archibald Duncan - 1809 - 412 pages
...at the corners of all the streets, musketry, hand grenades, bricks and stones from the tops of ail 'the houses, every householder with his negroes defended...each of which was in itself a fortress, and it is not, perhaps, too much to say, thai the whole male population of Buenos Ayres was employed in its defence.... | |
 | Edward Baines - Europe - 1818 - 746 pages
...exposed was violent in the extreme. Grapeshot at the corners of the streets ; musketry, hand -grenades, bricks, and stones, from the tops of all the houses ; every householder, with his negroes, defending his dwelling, each of which was in itself a fortress ; and it is not, perhaps, too much to... | |
 | Edward Pelham Brenton - Great Britain - 1825 - 610 pages
...bricks, and stones, from the tops of the houses, added to the destructive fire of guns and musketry. " Every householder with his Negroes, defended his dwelling, each of which was in itself a fortress." " Such," says the General, " was the situation of the army on the morning of the 6th of July, when... | |
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The nature of the fire to which the Troops were exposed, was violent in the extreme. Grape-shot at the corners of all the streets, musketry, handgrenades, bricks, and stones from the tops of all the houses, every householder with his Negroes defended... 
