The Bivouac, Band 2E. L. Carey and A. Hart, 1837 |
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aide-de-camp Andalusia appeared arms Arrah Ashfield avenge Badajoz Barbara Maxwell baron beauty Bidassoa bivouac blood bosom bride brigade brother Captain Phillips Catalina chamber Clinton cloak Colonel O'Connor command companion concealed daring dark daugh dead death deep despatched desperate division door dreadful Ellen enemy escaped exclaimed eyes fancy father fear fell fire Flyn fortune French gallant George Selby Gillian gipsy Grenada Guerilla hand happy heard heart honour hour husband inquired Juan Moreno kinsmen Lady Featherstone lady's letter light look lord Lord Wellington marriage Mary Howard Miss Woodhouse mistress morning mountain murder never night noble O'Brien officer Orthez Pamplona passed pistols Pyrenees reached regiment replied retired returned ruined rushed sally port says scene Selby's sentry soldier Spaniard storming party strange stranger Terence thee thing thou tirailleur troops turned Ulick vengeance Vicente voice waited whispered wife woman wretched Wyndham
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Seite 31 - I am one, my liege, Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world Have so incensed, that I am reckless what I do, to spite the world.
Seite 13 - From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night, The hum of either army stilly sounds, That the fix'd sentinels almost receive The secret whispers of each other's watch...
Seite 53 - At last the debouches were choked up with the dead and wounded, and a further passage to the breach rendered impracticable from the heap of corpses that were piled upon each other. Then, in that desperate moment, when hope might have been supposed to be over, an expedient unparalleled in the records of war was resorted to. The British batteries opened on the curtain, and the...
Seite 30 - Abril, had accumulated plunder, principally in specie, amounting in value to half a million of reals. One of the band, when captured by the French, to save his life discovered the secret, and offered to lead a party to the place where the treasure was deposited. His proposal was accepted. An alguazil, with an escort of cavalry, proceeded to the wood of Villa Viciosa, and there booty was found worth more than the value affixed to it by the deserter. Returning in unsuspecting confidence, the party...
Seite 65 - ... in mere wantonness, and the liquors running through the kennel. Many a harrowing scream saluted the ear of the passer-by; many a female supplication was heard asking in vain for mercy. • How could it be otherwise, when it is remembered that twenty thousand furious and licentious madmen were loosed upon an immense population, among which many of the loveliest women upon earth might be found ? All within that devoted city was at the disposal of an infuriated army, over whom, for the time, control...
Seite 29 - ... on a scale of frightful magnitude. One, pretending to be a functionary of the junta, made Ladrada a scene of bloodshed. By night his victims were despatched ; and to the disgrace of woman, his wife was more sanguinary than himself. Castanos at length arrested their blood-stained career ; and Pedrazeula was hanged and beheaded, and Maria, his infamous confederate, garotted. Castile was overrun by banditti; and one gang, destroyed by a Guerilla chief named Juan Abril, had accumulated plunder, principally...
Seite 26 - Empecinado's followers, who were surprised in the mountains of Guadarama, were nailed to the trees, and left there to expire slowly by hunger and thirst. To the same trees, before a week elapsed, a similar number of French soldiers were affixed by the Guerillas. Two of the inhabitants of Madrid, who were suspected of communicating with the brigands, as the French termed the armed Spaniards, were tried by court-martial, and executed at their own door.
Seite 63 - The storming party of the fifth had escaladed a wall of thirty feet with wretched ladders, forced an uninjured palisade, descended a deep counterscarp, crossed the lunette behind it, and this was effected under a converging fire from the bastions, and a well-sustained fusilade, while but a few of the assailants could force their way together, and form on the rampart when they got up. But the leading sections persevered until the brigade was completely lodged within the parapet ; and now united, and...
Seite 28 - Gastra, his chosen comrade, assisted him to escape. The Guerilla rallied his followers, repulsed the enemy, took Malcarado, and shot him instantly, while the village cure and three alcaldes implicated in the traitorous design, were hanged side by side upon a tree, and their houses razed to the ground.
Seite 24 - Guerilla vengeance against domestic treachery was neither less certain or less severe. To collect money or supplies for the invaders, convey any information, conceal their movements, and not betray them when opportunity occurred, was death to the offender. Sometimes the delinquent was brought with considerable difficulty and risk before a neighbouring tribunal, and executed with all the formalities of justice; but generally .a more summary vengeance was exacted, and the traitor was sacrificed upon...