 | 1813 - 744 Seiten
...decided battles to infinitely superior numbers: no day passed without trophies of victory arriving at the head-quarters of the army — no day without affairs...losing a gun or sacrificing any of their baggage. Concluded in the Supplement. Poetical Essays on Military Subjects. BY MRS. JOHN PHILIPPART, Author... | |
 | John Philippart - 1813 - 470 Seiten
...was much greater. Marshal Duke of Friuli and several officers of note were killed. Thus the Allies, in a few weeks, gave two decided battles to infinitely...orders of General Blucher, and a division of the enemy 118 under General Maison, debouching- from Haynau. Sir Charles Stewart mentions this affair as one... | |
 | 1813 - 592 Seiten
...of near ^UO mili-s, retiring, contending position after position, and earning with them between fi and 700 pieces of cannon, without losing a gun or sacrificing any of their T»;E«DAV, JUNE 29. ADMIItALTY-orVICE, JUNE 23. A letter from C.ipt. Sir G. li. Collier, of the Surveillante,... | |
 | J. W. Robertson - 1815 - 850 Seiten
...of so active an enemy, contending position after position, and carrying with them between 6 and 7^0 pieces of cannon, without losing a gun, or sacrificing any of their baggage. In the battles of the 20th and 21st, Bonaparte lost several officers of distinction: Duroc, Duke of... | |
 | Julius von Pflugk-Harttung - 1913 - 492 Seiten
...operation can be conceived in the presence of a superior enemy, and traversed an extent of country of near 300 miles retiring, contending position after position,...losing a gun or sacrificing any of their baggage. That these are most triumphant efforts, no one under any circumstances will be disposed to deny. But... | |
 | Sir Charles Kingsley Webster - 1921 - 476 Seiten
...of near 300 miles retiring, contending position after position, and carrying with them between 600 and 700 pieces of cannon, without losing a gun or sacrificing any of their baggage. That these are most triumphant efforts no one, under any circumstances, will be disposed to deny. But... | |
 | 1813 - 752 Seiten
...near 200 miles, retiring, contending position after position, and carrying wiih them between 6 and 100 pieces of cannon, without losing a gun, or sacrificing any of their baggage. Adm'ir ally-office, June 29. — Extract of • letter from Captain Sir George R*Collii-r, transmitted... | |
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Lutzen, where they triumphantly stood and conquered, and from which the difficulty of getting up ammunition alone obliged them to retire, they had executed the passage of the Elbe, than which no more difficult operation can be conceived, in the presence... 