The Hussar, Volumen1H. Colburn, 1837 |
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... Spaniards were drawn up in force.- Though they did not see this formation , our chiefs suspected that such a thing might be , and they made their dispositions accord- ingly . The infantry was formed in an echel- lon line the grenadiers ...
... Spaniards were drawn up in force.- Though they did not see this formation , our chiefs suspected that such a thing might be , and they made their dispositions accord- ingly . The infantry was formed in an echel- lon line the grenadiers ...
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... Spaniards , and overthrew them in a moment . No pause was made , nor time given to rally , for the squadron of the 21st charged home ; and a round or two of grape from the three - pounders completed the defeat . We took the cannon and ...
... Spaniards , and overthrew them in a moment . No pause was made , nor time given to rally , for the squadron of the 21st charged home ; and a round or two of grape from the three - pounders completed the defeat . We took the cannon and ...
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... Spaniards did not think of returning to the attack . If they had done so , we should have been cut to pieces , almost without resistance . Maldonado , though not a fortified town , was a military station - that is to say , there was a ...
... Spaniards did not think of returning to the attack . If they had done so , we should have been cut to pieces , almost without resistance . Maldonado , though not a fortified town , was a military station - that is to say , there was a ...
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... Spaniards , it appeared , had laid for us an ambuscade , into which our precipitancy hurried us , and nothing now remained but to leave the cattle to themselves and fight our way back to Maldonado . But the odds against us were too ...
... Spaniards , it appeared , had laid for us an ambuscade , into which our precipitancy hurried us , and nothing now remained but to leave the cattle to themselves and fight our way back to Maldonado . But the odds against us were too ...
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... Spaniards held us in too much . respect , to press us back from our hazardous position . We maintained the fight as we best could , charging from time to time when an oppor- tunity offered , and then retreating again , so as to be in ...
... Spaniards held us in too much . respect , to press us back from our hazardous position . We maintained the fight as we best could , charging from time to time when an oppor- tunity offered , and then retreating again , so as to be in ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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