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" 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... "
The Theory of War ... - Page 246
by P. L. Macdougall - 1856 - 353 pages
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The United Service Journal and Naval and Military Magazine, Part 1

English periodicals - 1833 - 610 pages
...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 I "I". «l , and fifteen hundred unwounded...
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The Monthly Review

Books - 1831 - 652 pages
...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. Tbe rain flowed after in streams discoloured with blood, and fifteen hundred unwounded men,...
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Memoirs of a sergeant, late in the forty-third light infantry regiment ...

Memoirs - 1835 - 460 pages
...mountain torrent. But it was in vain : the effort only served to increase 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 of six thousand British soldiers...
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Life of ... the duke of Wellington

Andrew Redman Bonar - 1845 - 472 pages
...multitnde, 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 ram flowed after in streams discoloured with blood, and 1,500 unwounded men, the remnant...
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The history of England, from the accession of George iii., 1760 ..., Volume 5

Thomas Smart Hughes - 1846 - 500 pages
...multitude, endeavor 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, discolored with blood; and 1500 uriwounded men, the remnant...
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English Battles and Sieges in the Peninsula: Extracted from His Peninsula War

William Francis Patrick Napier - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1852 - 570 pages
...was pushed by the incessant vigour of the attack to the farthest edge of the height. There the French reserve, mixing with the struggling multitude, endeavoured...loosened cliff went headlong down the steep . the rain flowed after in streams discoloured with blood, and eighteen hundred unwounded men, the remnant...
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The Great Battles of the British Army

Charles Mac Farlane - 1853 - 550 pages
...multitudes, 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 1,500 unwounded men, the remnant...
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Sketches of Celebrated Canadians: And Persons Connected with Canada, from ...

Henry James Morgan - Canada - 1862 - 808 pages
...farthest edge of the heights. There the enemy's reserve, mixing with the struggling multitude, endeavored to restore the fight, but only augmented the irremediable...like a loosened cliff, went headlong down the steep, and eighteen hundred unwounded men, the remnant of six thousand unconquerable British soldiers, stood...
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A manual of English literature

Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 pages
...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 afier in streams discoloured with blood, and fifteen hundred unwounded men,...
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John Cassell's illustrated history of England. The text, to the ..., Volume 6

Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 650 pages
...multitudes, 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 one thousand five hundred unwounded...
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