 | David Stewart - 1822 - 552 Seiten
...especially the English, so they made a soldier-like retreat, which was much favoured by an adjacent wood. The British behaved well, and could be exceeded in...example, when the Highland furies rushed in upon us zoith more violence than ever did a sea driven by a tempest- T cannot say much of the other auxiliaries,... | |
 | David Stewart - 1822 - 658 Seiten
...especially the English, so they made a soldier-like retreat, which was much favoured by an adjacent wood. The British behaved well, and could be exceeded in...officers, who animated the troops by their example, "ashen the Highland Juries rushed in upon us with more violence than ever did a sea driven by a tempest.... | |
 | David Stewart (Major-General.) - 1825 - 662 Seiten
...a soldier-like retreat, which was much favoured by an adjacent wood. The British behaved well, apd could be exceeded in ardour by none but our officers, who animated the troops by their example, -xfien the Highland furies rushed in upon us tcitft more violence than ever did a sea driven by a tempest.... | |
 | James Browne - 1838 - 532 Seiten
...especially the English, so they made a soldier-like retreat, which was much favoured by an adjacent wood. The British behaved well, and could be exceeded in...troops by their example, when the Highland furies rusJied in upon us with more violence than ever did a sea driren by a tempest. I cannot say much of... | |
 | James Browne - 1851 - 600 Seiten
...especially the English, so they made a soldier-like retreat, which was much favoured by an adjacent wood. The British behaved well, and could be exceeded in...animated the troops by their example, when the Highland furiet rushed in vpon us with more violence than ever did a sea driven by a tempest, I cannot say much... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1855 - 432 Seiten
...which the French afterwards described as so terrible — when ' the Highland furies,' they said, ' rushed in upon us with more violence than ever did a sea driven by'a tempest.' Even this curious fact does not give the case in its strongest light. The present writer... | |
 | Archibald K. Murray - 1862 - 530 Seiten
...becomes a soldier, and who could distinguish valour even in a foeman, said of the Highlanders — "These furies rushed in upon us with more violence than ever did a sea driven by a tempest." The rebellion of Prince Charles Edward in 1 745 occasioned the recall of the Forty-second, or, as it... | |
 | Archibald K. Murray - 1862 - 526 Seiten
...becomes a soldier, and who could distinguish valour even in a foeman, said of the Highlanders — "These furies rushed in upon us with more violence than ever did a sea driven by a tempest." The rebellion of Prince Charles Edward in 1 745 occasioned the recall of the Forty-second, or, as it... | |
 | Victoria cross, Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1867 - 448 Seiten
...alluding to the battle of Fontenoy, says, " The British behaved well, and could be exceeded in ardoui by none but our officers, who animated the troops...their example, when the Highland furies rushed in upon tis with more violence than ever did a sea driven by a tempest." The Highlanders took part in the capture... | |
 | Charles Alfred Maxwell - 1870 - 500 Seiten
...especially the English, so they made a soldier-like retreat, which was much favoured by an adjacent wood. The British behaved well, and could be exceeded in...violence than ever did a sea driven by a tempest. I cannot say much of the other auxiliaries, some of whom looked as if they had no great concern in... | |
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The British behaved well, and could be exceeded in ardour by none but our officers, who animated the troops by their example, when the Highland furies rushed in upon us with more violence than ever did a sea driven by a tempest. 
