The fifteen decisive battles of the world, from Marathon to Waterloo, Volume 2Richard Bentley, 1851 |
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... officers and men ; and still more dearly by the opportunity which Duke William had gained of effecting an unopposed landing on the Sussex coast . The whole of William's shipping had as- sembled at the mouth of the Dive , a little river ...
... officers and men ; and still more dearly by the opportunity which Duke William had gained of effecting an unopposed landing on the Sussex coast . The whole of William's shipping had as- sembled at the mouth of the Dive , a little river ...
Page 85
... officers in the camp . Her tactics in action were simple enough . As she herself de- scribed it " I used to say to them ' Go boldly in among the English , ' and then I used to go boldly in myself . " * Such , as she told her inquisitors ...
... officers in the camp . Her tactics in action were simple enough . As she herself de- scribed it " I used to say to them ' Go boldly in among the English , ' and then I used to go boldly in myself . " * Such , as she told her inquisitors ...
Page 88
... and he and another English officer replied by bidding her go home and keep her cows , and by ribald jests , that brought tears of shame and indignation into her eyes . But though the English leaders vaunted aloud 88 JOAN OF ARC'S VICTORY.
... and he and another English officer replied by bidding her go home and keep her cows , and by ribald jests , that brought tears of shame and indignation into her eyes . But though the English leaders vaunted aloud 88 JOAN OF ARC'S VICTORY.
Page 105
... officers , which was offered by the English fleet putting into Plymouth ; and we may look on Raleign as one of the group that was assembled at the Bowling Green on the Hoe . Many other brave men and skilful mariners , besides the chiefs ...
... officers , which was offered by the English fleet putting into Plymouth ; and we may look on Raleign as one of the group that was assembled at the Bowling Green on the Hoe . Many other brave men and skilful mariners , besides the chiefs ...
Page 106
... officers of the fleet were engaged , when a small armed vessel was seen running before the wind into Plymouth harbour , with all sails set . Her commander landed in haste , and eagerly sought the place where the English Lord - Admiral ...
... officers of the fleet were engaged , when a small armed vessel was seen running before the wind into Plymouth harbour , with all sails set . Her commander landed in haste , and eagerly sought the place where the English Lord - Admiral ...
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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...