 | Elizabeth Kimball Kendall - 1900 - 540 pages
...them returning, after breaking through a column of Russian infantry, and scattering them like chaff, when the flank fire of the battery on the hill swept them down. Wounded men and dismounted troopers flying towards us told the sad tale — demi-gods could not have... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - 1902 - 564 pages
...them returning after breaking through a column of Russian infantry, and scattering them like chaff, when the flank fire of the battery on the hill swept...they were. Wounded men and dismounted troopers flying toward us told the sad tale. Demigods could not have done what they had failed to do. 7. At the very... | |
 | James Richard Joy - 1902 - 302 pages
...dismounted troopers flying towards us told the sad tale — demi-gods could not have done what they had failed to do. At the very moment when they were about to retreat a regiment of lancers was hurled upon their flank. Colonel Shewell, of the Eighth Hussars, whose attention... | |
 | James Richard Joy - 1902 - 290 pages
...them returning, after breaking through a column of Russian infantry, and scattering them like chaff, when the flank fire of the battery on the hill swept them down. Wounded men and dismounted troopers flying towards us told the sad tale — demi-gods could not have... | |
 | Charles Maurice Stebbins - 1913 - 488 pages
...them returning, after breaking through a column of Russian infantry and scattering them like chaff, when the flank fire of the battery on the hill swept them, scattered and broken as they were. Wounded men and dismounted troopers flying towards us told us the... | |
 | Frederic Lauriston Bullard - 1914 - 694 pages
...through a column of Russian infantry, and scattering them like chaff, when the flank fire of the hattery on the hill swept them down, scattered and broken...do. At the very moment when they •were about to rctreat an enormous mass of Lancers was hurled at their flank. Colonel Shewcll of the Eighth Hussars... | |
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We saw them riding through the guns, as I have said ; to our delight we saw them returning after breaking through a column of Russian infantry, and scattering them like chaff, when the flank fire of the battery on the hill swept them down, scattered and... 
