The fifteen decisive battles of the world, from Marathon to Waterloo, Volume 2Richard Bentley, 1851 |
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... force they could never have founded the enduring free English constitu- tion . It was the Conquest that infused into them a new virtue , and the political liberties of Eng- land arose from the situation in which the Anglo- Saxon and the ...
... force they could never have founded the enduring free English constitu- tion . It was the Conquest that infused into them a new virtue , and the political liberties of Eng- land arose from the situation in which the Anglo- Saxon and the ...
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... force , Harold at length tempted them to quit their close order by a pretended flight . Then the English columns burst in among them , and a carnage ensued , the extent of which may be judged of by the exhaustion and inactivity of ...
... force , Harold at length tempted them to quit their close order by a pretended flight . Then the English columns burst in among them , and a carnage ensued , the extent of which may be judged of by the exhaustion and inactivity of ...
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... forces from the southern and midland counties ; and also directed his fleet to reassemble off the Sussex coast . rold was well received in London , and his sum- mons to arms was promptly obeyed by citizen , by thane , by sokman , and by ...
... forces from the southern and midland counties ; and also directed his fleet to reassemble off the Sussex coast . rold was well received in London , and his sum- mons to arms was promptly obeyed by citizen , by thane , by sokman , and by ...
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... force or freewill thou hast made Duke William an oath on the bodies of saints . Why then risk thyself in the battle with a perjury upon thee ? VOL . II . 66 To us , who have sworn nothing , this is BATTLE OF HASTINGS . 25.
... force or freewill thou hast made Duke William an oath on the bodies of saints . Why then risk thyself in the battle with a perjury upon thee ? VOL . II . 66 To us , who have sworn nothing , this is BATTLE OF HASTINGS . 25.
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... force . Whether he died of that blow I know not , but it was said that he fell under it , and rose no more . " The standard was beaten down , the golden standard was taken , and Harold and the best of his friends were slain ; but there ...
... force . Whether he died of that blow I know not , but it was said that he fell under it , and rose no more . " The standard was beaten down , the golden standard was taken , and Harold and the best of his friends were slain ; but there ...
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Page 257 - This article is inadmissible in every extremity ; sooner than this army will consent to ground their arms in their encampment, they will rush on the enemy, determined to take no quarter.
Page 257 - Burgoyne to Great Britain, upon condition of not serving again in North America during the present contest...
Page 222 - Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day — Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Page 104 - In that memorable year, when the dark cloud gathered round our coasts, when Europe stood by in fearful suspense to behold what should be the result of that great cast in the game of human politics, what the craft of Home, the power of Philip, the genius of Farnese could achieve against the islandqueen, with her Drakes and Cecils, — in that agony of the Protestant faith and English name.
Page 286 - Quite alone, and left to myself, I rode away on the heights to the left, and could plainly survey the favourable position of the French : they were standing in the form of a semicircle, in the greatest quiet and security ; Kellermann, on the left wing, being the easiest to reach .... I...
Page 48 - ... bold, and of noble carriage. In the front of the battle where the Normans thronged most, he came bounding on swifter than the stag, many Normans falling before him and his company. He rushed straight upon a Norman who was armed and riding on a...
Page 244 - While resolute recruits, accustomed to the use of firearms, and all partially trained by service in the provincial militias, were thus flocking to the standard of Gates and Arnold at Saratoga, and while Burgoyne was engaged at Fort Edward in providing the means for the further advance of his army through the intricate and hostile country that still lay before him, two events occurred, in each of which the British sustained loss and the Americans obtained advantage, the moral effects of which were...
Page 182 - I know the danger, yet a battle is absolutely necessary, and I rely on the bravery and discipline of the troops, which will make amends for our disadvantages.
Page 226 - The time will therefore come when one hundred and fifty millions of men will be living in North America,* equal in condition, the progeny of one race, owing their origin to the same cause, and preserving the same civilization, the same language, the same religion, the same habits, the same manners, and imbued with the same opinions, propagated under the same forms. The rest is uncertain, but this is certain ; and it is a fact new to the world — a fact fraught with such portentous consequences as...
Page 194 - In sixtyfour years she has advanced her frontier eight hundred and fifty miles towards Vienna, Berlin, Dresden, Munich, and Paris ; she has approached four hundred and fifty miles nearer to Constantinople ; she has possessed herself of the capital of Poland, and has advanced to within a few miles of the capital of Sweden*, from which, when Peter the First mounted the throne, her frontier was distant three hundred miles. Since that time she has stretched herself forward about one thousand miles towards...