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 246by P. L. Macdougall - 1856 - 353 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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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