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" ... by the incessant vigour of the attack to the farthest edge of the hill. In vain did the French reserves... "
The United Service Journal and Naval and Military Magazine - Page 272
1833
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The Monthly Review

Books - 1831 - 652 pages
...foot by foot, and with a horrid carnage, it was driven by the incessant vigour of the attack to the farthest edge of the hill. In vain did the French...like a loosened cliff, went headlong down the ascent. Tbe rain flowed after in streams discoloured with blood, and fifteen hundred unwounded men, the remnant...
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Memoirs of a sergeant, late in the forty-third light infantry regiment ...

Memoirs - 1835 - 460 pages
...the hope of averting this mountain torrent. But it was in vain : the effort only served to increase the irremediable confusion ; and the mighty mass giving...The rain flowed after in streams discoloured with blood ; and of six thousand British soldiers who performed these wonders, fifteen hundred unwounded...
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The History of England, Volume 6

Thomas Smart Hughes - Great Britain - 1836 - 348 pages
...foot by foot, and with a horrid carnage, it was driven by the incessant vigor of the attack to the farthest edge of the hill. In vain did the French reserves, joining with the struggling multitude, endeavor to sustain the fight : their efforts only increased the irremediable confusion ; and the mighty...
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History of Europe (from 1789 to 1815).

sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1840 - 918 pages
...foot by foot, and with a horrid carnage, it was driven by the incessant vigour of the attack to the farthest edge of the hill. In vain did the French...the irremediable confusion ; and the mighty mass, at length giving way like a loosened i Nap. u. cliff, went headlong down the ascent. The rain flowed...
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History of Europe from the commencement of the French ..., Volumes 7-8

sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1841 - 894 pages
...foot by foot, and with a horrid carnage, it was driven by the incessant vigour of the attack to the farthest edge of the hill. In vain did the French...the irremediable confusion ; and the mighty mass, at length giving way like* loosened clifT, went headlong down the ascent. The rain flowed after in...
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History of Europe (from 1789 to 1815).

sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1843 - 1252 pages
...foot by foot, and with a horrid carnage, it was driven by the incessant vigour of the attack to tie farthest edge of the hill. In vain did the French...the irremediable confusion ; and the mighty mass, at length giving way like a loosened cliff, , went headlong down the ascent. The rain flowed 541. vict....
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History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution ..., Volume 1

Archibald Alison - Europe - 1843 - 524 pages
...foot by foot, and with a horrid carnage, it was driven by the incessant vigor of the attack to the farthest edge of the hill. In vain did the French reserves, joining with the struggling multitude, endeavor to sustain the fight: their efforts only increased the irremediable confusion; and the mighty...
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Life of ... the duke of Wellington

Andrew Redman Bonar - 1845 - 472 pages
...foot by foot and with a horrid carnage it was driven by the incessant vigour of the attack, to the farthest edge of the hill. In vain did the French reserves, joining with the struggling multitnde, endeavour to sustain the fight ; their efforts only increased the irremediable confusion,...
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Hansard's Parliamentary Debates

Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1846 - 738 pages
...foot, and with a horrid carnage, it was driven by the incessant vigour of the attack to the furthest edge of the hill. In vain did the French reserves,...endeavour to sustain the fight ; their efforts only inereased the irremediable confiision, and the mighty mass, at length giving way like a loosened cliff,...
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The History of England, from the Accession of George III, 1760, to ..., Volume 5

Thomas Smart Hughes - Great Britain - 1846 - 500 pages
...foot by foot, and with a horrid carnage, it was driven by the incessant vigor of the attack to the farthest edge of the hill. In vain did the French reserves, joining with the struggling multitude, endeavor to sustain the fight: their efforts only increased the irremediable confusion; and the mighty...
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