 Shameless rapacity, brutal intemperance, savage lust, cruelty, and murder, shrieks and piteous lamentations, groans, shouts, imprecations, the hissing of fires bursting from the houses, the crashing of doors and windows, and the reports of muskets used...  The Great Sieges of History - Page 572by William Robson - 1855 - 627 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1834 - 614 pages
...and murder, shrieks, and piteous lamentations, groans, shouts, and imprecations, the hissing of fires bursting from the houses, the crashing of doors and...tumult rather subsided than was quelled. The wounded were then looked to, — the dead disposed of." REVIEW. — The Spirit of Sectarianism ; with Observations... | |
 | International peace society - 232 pages
...cruelty and murder, shrieks and piteous lamentations, groans, shouts, imprecations, the hissing of fires bursting from the houses, the crashing of doors and...resounded for two days and nights in the streets of Badajoz ! on the third, when the city was sacked, when the soldiers were exhausted by their own excesses,... | |
 | William Francis Patrick Napier - 1834 - 642 pages
...cruelty, and murder, shrieks and piteous lamentations, groans, shouts, imprecations, the hissing of fires bursting from the houses, the crashing of doors and...was quelled. The wounded men were then looked to, the dead disposed of! Five thousand men and officers fell during this siege, and of these, including... | |
 | William Francis Patrick Napier - 1846 - 636 pages
...cruelty and murder, shrieks and piteous lamentations, groans, shouts, imprecations, the hissing of fires bursting from the houses, the crashing of doors and...was quelled. The wounded men were then looked to, the dead disposed of! Five thousand men and officers fell during this siege, and of these, including... | |
 | 1834 - 426 pages
...cruelty, and murder, shrieks and piteous lamentations, groans, shouts, imprecations, the hissing of fires bursting from the houses, the crashing of doors and...was quelled. The wounded men were then looked to, the dead disposed of! " Five thousand men and officers fell during this siege, and of these, including... | |
 | 1834 - 604 pages
...and murder, shrieks, and piteoui lamentations, groans, shouts, and imprecations, the hissing of fires bursting from the houses, the crashing of doors and...streets of Badajos ! on the third, when the city was lacked, whea the tdji were exhausted by their own execute, the ami rather subsided than was quelled.... | |
 | Heaton Bowstead Robinson - 1835 - 910 pages
...cruelty and murder, shrieks and piteous lamentations, groans, shouts, imprecations, the hissing of fires bursting from the houses, the crashing of doors and...resounded for two days and nights in the streets of Badajoz ! On the third, when the city was sacked, when the soldiers were exhausted by their own excesses,... | |
 | Memoirs - 1835 - 460 pages
...cruelty and murder, shrieks and piteous lamentations, groans, shouts, curses, the hissing of fires bursting from the houses, the crashing of doors and...violence, resounded for two days and nights in the devoted town. Five thousand men and officers fell during the siege ; and of these, including seven... | |
 | Heaton Bowstead Robinson - 1836 - 498 pages
...cruelty and murder, shrieks and piteous lamentations, groans, shouts, imprecations, the hissing of fires bursting from the houses, the crashing of doors and...resounded for two days and nights in the streets of Badajoz ! On the third, when the city was sacked, when the soldiers were exhausted by their own excesses,... | |
 | Henry Southern, George William Frederick Villiers Earl of Clarendon - 1837 - 220 pages
...cruelty and murder, shrieks and piteous lamentations, groans, shouts, imprecations, the hissing of fires bursting from the houses, the crashing of doors and...resounded for two days and nights in the streets of Badajoz ! On the third, when the city was sacked, when the soldiers were exhausted by their own excesses,... | |
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