Hamilton's Campaign with Moore and Wellington During the Peninsular WarPress of Prescott & Wilson, 1847 - 163페이지 |
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Albuera allies Almeida approach Arapiles arrived artillery assailants Astorga attack attempt Badajos battalions battle Benevente bridge brigade British cavalry centre charge Ciudad Rodrigo Colonel command commenced confusion contest corps Corunna covered crossed detachment directed Douro driven back drove Elvina enemy enemy's column engagement fell fifth divisions force formed French army front gain possession gallantry garrison ground guard guns heavy fire heights hill horse hundred immediately infantry instantly killed and wounded light troops Lord Wellington loss Marmont Marshal Marshall Soult Massena ment Mondego morning moved movement night o'clock occupied officers piquets Portugal Portuguese position prisoners Prussians ramparts ravine reached rear received regiment repulsed reserve retired retreat river road Romana Salamanca sion Sir Arthur Wellesley Sir David Baird Sir Harry Burrard Sir John Moore Sir Rowland Hill Sir Thomas Graham soldiers Soult Spanish armies supported Tagus thousand tion town village Vittoria whole Zadorra
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64 페이지 - Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow, But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
64 페이지 - Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him, — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done When the clock struck the hour for retiring : And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory.
64 페이지 - We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow. Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him — But little he'll reck if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him.
60 페이지 - It is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me ;" and in that manner, so becoming to a soldier, Moore was borne from the fight.
64 페이지 - Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried.
62 페이지 - I hope the people of England will be satisfied!" "I hope my country will do me justice!
63 페이지 - No coffin could be procured, and the officers of his staff wrapped the body, dressed as it was, in a military cloak and blankets. The interment was hastened : for about eight in the morning some firing was heard, and the officers feared that if a serious attack were made, they should be ordered away, and not suffered to pay...
56 페이지 - ... a vast column of smoke and dust, shooting out fiery sparks from its sides, arose perpendicularly and slowly to a great height, and then a shower of stones, and fragments of all kinds, bursting out of it with a roaring sound, killed several persons who remained too near the spot. A stillness, only interrupted by the lashing of the waves on the shore, succeeded, and the business of the war went on.
151 페이지 - Soldiers ! this day is the anniversary of Marengo and of Friedland, which twice decided the destiny of Europe. Then, as after Austerlitz, as after Wagram, we were too generous ! We believed in the protestations and in the oaths of princes, whom we left on their thrones. Now, however, leagued together, they aim at the independence and the most sacred rights of France.
151 페이지 - Let us, then, march to meet them. Are they and we no longer the same men? ' Soldiers, at Jena, against these same Prussians, now so arrogant, you were one...