 | 1855 - 534 pages
...rifles. They swept proudly past, glittering in the morning sun in all the pride and splendour of war. We could scarcely believe the evidence of our senses...charge an army in position? Alas! it was but too true. They advanced in two lines, quickening their psce as they closed. A more fearful spectacle was never... | |
 | William Freke Williams - 1854 - 952 pages
...rifles. They swept proudly past, glittering in the morning sun in all the pride and splendour of war. We could scarcely believe the evidence of our senses...position ? Alas ! it was but too true ; their desperate valour knew no bounds, and far indeed was it removed from its so-called better part — discretion.... | |
 | George Brackenbury - Crimea (Ukraine) - 1855 - 148 pages
...rifles. They swept proudly past, glittering in the morning sun in all the pride and splendour of war. We could scarcely believe the evidence of our senses...position ! Alas ! it was but too true — their desperate valour knew no bounds, and far indeed was it removed from its so-called better part, discretion. They... | |
 | George Brackenbury - Crimean War, 1853-1856 - 1855 - 600 pages
...rifles. They swept proudly past, glittering in the morning sun in all the pride and splendour of war. We could scarcely believe the evidence of our senses...position ! Alas ! it was but too true — their desperate valour knew no bounds, and far indeed was it removed from its so-called better part, discretion. They... | |
 | Sir William Howard Russell - Crimean War, 1853-1856 - 1858 - 710 pages
...rifles. They swept proudly past, glittering in the morning sun in all the pride and splendour of war. We could scarcely believe the evidence of our senses! Surely that handful of men were not going to charge an army in position? Alas! it was but too true—their desperate valour knew... | |
 | William Frederick Mylius - 1860 - 500 pages
...upon both flanks. The British numbered only GOO sabres, under Lord Cardigan. " We," says the writer, " could scarcely believe the evidence of our senses....of men are not going to charge an army in position !" They advanced in two lmes, quickening their pace as they closed towards the enemy. At the distance... | |
 | Arthur Bailey Thompson - Great Britain - 1865 - 748 pages
...rifles. They swept proudly past, glittering in the morning sun, in all the pride and splendour of war. We could scarcely believe the evidence of our senses...position ? Alas ! it was but too true ; their desperate valour knew no bounds, and far indeed, was it removed from its so-called better part— discretion.... | |
 | Readers - 1866 - 408 pages
...rifles. They swept proudly past, glittering in the morning sun in all the pride and splendour of war. We could scarcely believe the evidence of our senses....position ? Alas ! it was but too true. Their desperate valour knew no bounds, and far indeed was it removed from its so-called better part — discretion.... | |
 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1866 - 408 pages
...rifles. They swept proudly past, glittering in the morning sun in all the pride and splendour of war. We could scarcely believe the evidence of our senses....of men are not going to charge an army in position 1 Alas ! it was but too true. Their desperate valour knew no bounds, and far indeed was it removed... | |
 | Joseph Irving - Great Britain - 1871 - 1060 pages
...rifles. They swept proudly past, glittering in the morning sun in all the pride and splendour of war. We could scarcely believe the evidence of our senses...position ? Alas ! it was but too true ; their desperate valour knew no bounds, and far indeed was it removed from its so-called better part— discretion.... | |
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They swept proudly past, glittering in the morning sun in all the pride and splendour of war. We could scarcely believe the evidence of our senses ! Surely that handful of men are not going to charge an army in position... 
