Personal and Military History of Philip Kearny, Major-general United States Volunteers ...Rice and Gage, 1869 - 516 стор. |
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... Austrians in 1859 , from Monte Bello to Solferino . Although a tropical land , the vicissitudes of the temperature are as fearful as those which convert iron into steel . In the mountain regions , only a short distance from the coast ...
... Austrians in 1859 , from Monte Bello to Solferino . Although a tropical land , the vicissitudes of the temperature are as fearful as those which convert iron into steel . In the mountain regions , only a short distance from the coast ...
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... Austrians on the summit of the Julian Alps , when cavalry charged and artillery manœuvred on fields of ice , while the infantry waded to the attack through deep snow drifts . Some of the fortresses which constituted the " Armour of ...
... Austrians on the summit of the Julian Alps , when cavalry charged and artillery manœuvred on fields of ice , while the infantry waded to the attack through deep snow drifts . Some of the fortresses which constituted the " Armour of ...
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... Austrian masses . " There are seven American officers following the Piedmontese army . I am going to the baths of ... Austrians might have won the battle , or maintained their position , had they held out with greater tenacity or been ...
... Austrian masses . " There are seven American officers following the Piedmontese army . I am going to the baths of ... Austrians might have won the battle , or maintained their position , had they held out with greater tenacity or been ...
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... Austrians in the initiative collisions - like the army of the Potomac in too many cases - were defeated rather through the demerits of their own leaders ; through the meddling of the central government ; through the unusual wet ...
... Austrians in the initiative collisions - like the army of the Potomac in too many cases - were defeated rather through the demerits of their own leaders ; through the meddling of the central government ; through the unusual wet ...
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... Austrians is said to be one which was seldom trav- ersed by tourists , but was visited by General KEARNY in 1834 , in just such a wet season as in 1859. The following remarks , com- piled from a journal kept at that time , may be ...
... Austrians is said to be one which was seldom trav- ersed by tourists , but was visited by General KEARNY in 1834 , in just such a wet season as in 1859. The following remarks , com- piled from a journal kept at that time , may be ...
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ABD-EL-KADER admiration advance Algiers arms army Army of Virginia arrived artillery attack Austrians batteries battle battle of Williamsburg BIRNEY BLUCHER brave Brevet brigade Brigadier-General Bull Run camp campaign Captain cavalry Centreville Chantilly charge Colonel column command Company death division Dragoons DUKE DUKE OF ORLEANS enemy enemy's engaged Fair Oaks Fairfax Court House fell field fight fire flank force forward fought French front gallant glorious ground Harrison's Landing headquarters HEINTZELMAN hero honor HOOKER horse hundred infantry Jersey KEARNY's killed letter Lieutenant loss Major-General Manassas MCCLELLAN ment Mexican Mexico miles military morning mountains NAPOLEON never night officers passed patriotic PHIL PHILIP KEARNY POPE position Potomac rear rebel received regiment remarked retreat Richmond river road Saumur says sent soldier STEPHEN WATTS KEARNY STONEWALL JACKSON success sword thousand tion troops victory Washington WATTS Williamsburg wounded writer York Volunteers
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Сторінка 444 - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, - alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass Which now beneath them, but above shall grow In its next verdure, when this fiery mass Of living valour, rolling on the foe And burning with high hope shall moulder cold and low.
Сторінка 136 - Forward, the Light Brigade ! Charge for the guns ! " he said : Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. " Forward, the Light Brigade...
Сторінка 14 - I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
Сторінка 52 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men...
Сторінка 255 - Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, . Cannon behind them, Volleyed and thundered. Stormed at with shot and shell, While horse and hero fell, They that had fought so well Came through the jaws of Death Back from the mouth of Hell, All that was left of them, Left of Six Hundred.
Сторінка 191 - When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak Of one that...
Сторінка 136 - Then they rode back, but not, Not the six hundred. Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon behind them...
Сторінка 428 - Yet, Freedom ! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, Streams like the thunder-storm against the wind ; Thy trumpet voice, though broken now and dying, The loudest still the tempest leaves behind...
Сторінка 386 - I am clear that one of two courses should be adopted : first, to concentrate all our available forces to open communication with Pope ; second, to leave Pope to get out of his scrape, and at once use all our means to make the capital perfectly safe.
Сторінка 264 - Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night: and I will come upon him while he is weary and weak handed, and will make him afraid: and all the people that are with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only...