 Bolton's fall, when the Imperial Guards, led on by Marshal Ney, about half past seven o'clock, made their appearance from a corn-field, in close columns of grand divisions, nearly opposite, and within a distance of fifty yards from the muzzles of the...  Stories of Waterloo ... - Sida 305efter William Hamilton Maxwell - 1833 - 384 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 1817 - 586 sidor
...Marshal Ney about half past seven o'clock, made their appearance from a corn-field, in close columnsvof grand divisions, nearly opposite, and within a distance...muzzles of the guns.* Orders were given to load with cannister shot, and literally five rounds from each gun were fired with this destructive species of... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - 1833 - 404 sidor
...adjust its range, and combat the terrors of a peasant, while a storm of shot fell round them ; — to tax the courage of this man must proceed alone from...Napoleon superior to that of his heavy cavalry. " The cuirassiers * walked their horses round a square, to find an open.ing through which they might penetrate.... | |
 | Sir Archibald Alison - 1855 - 442 sidor
...their appearance from a com-üeld in close columns of grand divisions, nearly opposite, and within fifty yards from the muzzles of the guns, orders were...canister-shot, and literally five rounds were fired with this species of shot before they showed the least symptom of retiring. At the twenty-ninth round,... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - 1858 - 310 sidor
...sustain a fame that none dare question. " When the Imperial Guard, led on by Marshal Ney, about half-past seven o'clock, made their appearance from a corn-field,...load with canister-shot, and literally five rounds from each gun were fired with this species of shot before they showed the least symptom of retiring.... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 718 sidor
...their appearance from a corn-field in close columns of grand divisions, nearly opposite, and within fifty yards from the muzzles of the guns, orders were...canister-shot, and literally five rounds were fired with this species of shot before they showed the least symptom of retiring. At the twenty-ninth round,... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - 1907 - 726 sidor
...their appearance from a corn-field in close columns of grand divisions, nearly opposite, and within fifty yards from the muzzles of the guns, orders were...canister-shot, and literally five rounds were fired with this species of shot before they showed the least symptom of retiring. At the twenty-ninth round,... | |
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