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Adige advanced guard advantage Alvinzi apply Principle Archduke Arcola Arleux artillery Austrian army Austrian position Austrian right Balaklava base battalions battle of Prague Bevern Blenheim bridge camp campaign cavalry centre column command communication corps Courbe covered Craterus crossed Danube Daun defeated defended detached direction distance divisions echellon effect Elbe enable enemy enemy's entrenched exposed fire flank march formed fortress fractions Frederick French army front frontier Gheet ground guns heights infantry interior lines invading Kollin Kray left bank left flank left wing Legnago line of operations line of retreat manœuvre Mantua Marlborough Marshal Maxim Mehaigne miles military Moravia Moreau movement Napoleon nature oblique oblique order occupied officers opposed parallel passage passed Peninsular war Pirna Porus possession Prague Prince Charles protected Prussian rear reinforce retired Rhine right bank right wing river road Sainte Suzanne Schwerin siege soldier squadrons superior theatre troops Turenne Verona village whole force
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Page 245 - In vain did Soult by voice and gesture animate his Frenchmen ; in vain did the hardiest veterans, extricating themselves from the crowded columns, sacrifice their lives to gain time for the mass to open out on such a fair field ; in vain did the mass itself bear up, and, fiercely striving, fire indiscriminately upon friends and foes, while the horsemen hovering on the flank threatened to charge the advancing line.
Page 246 - No sudden burst of undisciplined valour, no nervous enthusiasm weakened the stability of their order, their flashing eyes were bent on the dark columns in their front, their measured tread shook the ground, their dreadful volleys swept away the head of every formation, their deafening shouts overpowered the dissonant cries that broke from all parts of the tumultuous crowd, as slowly and with a horrid carnage it was pushed by the incessant vigour of the attack to the farthest edge of the hill.
Page 246 - Nothing could stop that astonishing infantry. No sudden burst of undisciplined valour, no nervous enthusiasm weakened the stability of their order, their flashing eyes were bent on the dark columns in their front, their measured...
Page 246 - French reserves, joining with the struggling multitude, endeavour to sustain the fight; their efforts only increased the irremediable confusion, and the mighty mass giving way like a loosened cliff, went headlong down the ascent. The rain flowed after in streams discoloured with blood, and fifteen hundred unwounded men, the remnant of six thousand unconquerable British soldiers, stood triumphant on the fatal hill ! MOVEMENT OF CAVALRY SUPPORTS ALEXANDER WILLIAM KINGLAKE, The Invasion of the Crimea.