 | Joseph Haydn - 1851 - 618 pages
...agreement, the firing was suspended, and each advanced in close com|>act order and awful silence towards the other until their bayonets began to cross. At this...crisis the enemy became appalled. They broke, and began to fly, but it was too late ; they were nrertaken with the most dreadful slaughter. Their flight... | |
 | Joseph Timothy Haydn - 1851 - 626 pages
...bayonets llegan lo cross. At this momentous crisis the enemy became appalled. They broke, mid began to fly, but it was too late ; they were overtaken with the most dreadful slaughter. Their flight WAS marked with disorder and dismay, and they retired from the plain, leaving it covered... | |
 | Joseph Haydn - 1851 - 624 pages
...advanced in close compact order and awful silence tow'ards the other until their bayonets Ix'Kan 'o cross. At this momentous crisis the enemy became appalled. They broke, and becan to fly, but it was too late ; they were overtaken with the most dreadfol slaughter. Their flight... | |
 | Thomas Carter - 1861 - 642 pages
...rounds, when, as if by mutual consent, the firing was suspended, and in close compact order and dreadful silence they advanced towards each other, until their bayonets began to cross. This momentous erisis appalled the enemy; they broke and endeavoured to fly, but it was too late, and... | |
 | James Grant - 1873 - 598 pages
...agreement, and in close, compact order, and with awful silence, they advanced towards each other, till the bayonets began to cross. At this momentous crisis...fly, but it was too late. They were overtaken, with most dreadful slaughter." Prior to charging, the British flung aside their greatcoats, blankets, and... | |
 | Henry Stewart (M.A.) - 1879 - 392 pages
...agreement, and in close, compact order, and with awful silence, they advanced toward each other till their bayonets began to cross. At this momentous crisis...fly, but it was too late. They were overtaken with most dreadful slaughter." Nor was it otherwise in the centre and left. When at 300 yards, says General... | |
 | James Grant - 1880 - 666 pages
...agreement, and in close, compact order, and with awful silence, they advanced towards each other, till the bayonets began to cross. At this momentous crisis...appalled ; they broke and endeavoured to fly, but [Maidi. it was too late. They were overtaken, with most dreadful slaughter." Prior to charging, the... | |
 | William Clark Russell - 1891 - 298 pages
...General Stuart, " as if by mutual agreement, the firing was suspended, and in close compact order and awful silence they advanced towards each other until their bayonets began to cross." There was something so terrible in the aspect of the British, something so tremendous in the grim and... | |
 | Thomas Carter, William Henry Long - 1893 - 796 pages
...rounds, when, as if by mutual consent, the firing was suspended, and in close compact order and dreadful silence they advanced towards each other, until their bayonets began to cross. This momentous crisis appalled the enemy; they broke and endeavoured to fly, but it was too late, and... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1808 - 1408 pages
...few rounds, when, as if by mutual agreement, the firing was suspended, and in close compact order and awful silence, they advanced towards each other, until...appalled. They broke, and endeavoured to fly, but it was loo late ; they were overtaken with the most dreadful slaughter.— Brig.-general Auckland, whose brigade... | |
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The two corps at the distance of about one hundred yards fired reciprocally a few rounds, when, as if by mutual agreement, the firing was suspended, and in close compact order and awful silence, they advanced towards each other, until their bayonets began... 
