 The opposite side was maintained by the Aragonese, who threw up batteries at the openings of the cross streets, within a few paces of those which the French erected against them. The intervening space was presently heaped with dead, either slain upon...  History of the Peninsular War ... - Page 26by Robert Southey - 1828Full view - About this book
 | 1810 - 600 pages
...intervening space was presently heaped with dead, either slain upon the spot, or thrown out from Aug. 5. the windows. Next day, the ammunition of the citizens...were expected every moment to renew their efforts to compleat the conquest, and even this circumstance occasioned no dismay, nor did any one think of... | |
 | 1810 - 602 pages
...intervening space was presently heaped with dead, either slain upon the spot, or thrown out from Aug. 5. the windows. Next day, the ammunition of the citizens...were expected every moment to renew their efforts to compleat the conquest, and even this circumstance occasioned no dismay, nor did any one think of... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1810 - 602 pages
...citizens began to fail,— the French were expected every moment to renew their efforts to compleat the conquest, and even this circumstance occasioned...dismay, nor did any one think of capitulation. One voice was heard from the people, wherever Palafox rode among them, that, if powder failed, they were... | |
 | 1823 - 614 pages
...against them. The intervening space was presently heaped with dead, either slain upon the spot, or thrown out from the windows. Next day the ammunition of the citizens began to fail ;... the Frenchmen were expected every moment to renew their efforts for completing the conquest, and even this... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1823 - 636 pages
...against them. The intervening space was presently heaped with dead, either sluin upon the spot, or thrown out from the windows. Next day the ammunition of the citizens began to fail. It was almost certain death to appear, by day-light, within reach of those houses which were occupied... | |
 | 1823 - 616 pages
...against them. The intervening space was presently heaped with dead, either slain upon the spot, or thrown out from the windows. Next day the ammunition of the citizens began to fail. It was almost certain death to appear, by day-light, within reach of those houses which were occupied... | |
 | 1823 - 610 pages
...against them. The intervening space was presently heaped with dead, either slain upon the spot, or thrown out from the windows. Next day the ammunition of the citizens began to foil ;... the Frenchmen were expected every moment to renew their efforts for completing the conquest,... | |
 | John Galt - 1824 - 462 pages
...against them. The intervening space was presently heaped with dead, either slain upon the spot, or thrown out from the windows. Next day the ammunition of the citizens began to fail. It was almost certain death to appear, by daylight, within reach of those houses which were occupied... | |
 | John Galt - 1824 - 470 pages
...against them. The intervening space was presently heaped with dead, either slain upon the spot, or thrown out from the windows. Next day the ammunition of the citizens began to fail. It was almost certain death to appear, by daylight, within reach of those houses which were occupied... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 814 pages
...erected against them. The intervening space was presently heaped with dead, either slain upon the spot or thrown out from the windows. Next day the ammunition...dismay, nor did any one think of capitulation. One cry «as heard from the people, wherever Palafox rode among them, that, if powder failed, they were ready... | |
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