Twelve Months in the British LegionJ. Macrone, 1836 - 273 páginas |
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1st Regiment 2nd Regiment 7th Regiment action Aide-de-Camp appeared Arlaban army arrival artillery attack barricade Basque battalion battery bayonets Bilbao billet breakfast breastwork British Legion Briviesca Capt Carlists Chapelgorris chasse marées Chichester cloak Colonel column command Convent of San Cordova crossing dead distance Don Carlos enemy enemy's English Ensign Evans eyes fell fire foot fortified Francisco French front Guipuzcoa hands head Hernani hill honour horse Ilarraza infantry Irish ladies Lancers leaving Lieut Lieutenant Lieutenant-General Light Brigade look Lord John Hay ment morning mules mulled wine musket musketry night officers party passed peseta picquet pieces Portugalete quartered Regiment Rifles Ringdove river road round San Fernando San Sebastian Santander shot sickness side skirmish soldiers Spain Spaniards Spanish troops stone straggling struck THOMAS CURSON HANSARD took town Urumea village Vitoria Viva walls whole wounded
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Página xi - SIR, I HAVE the honour to acquaint you, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that the...
Página 193 - Of fruits, and flowers, and bunches of knot-grass, And diamonded with panes of quaint device, Innumerable of stains and splendid dyes, As are the tiger-moth's deep-damask'd wings...
Página 272 - Guards, the 3rd, 6th, and rifles of the legion, penetrated the centre, carrying in rapid succession several fortified houses, and capturing the enemy's cannon in that part of the line. At this point the rebel standard, erected in the centre of their works, indicating their intention of giving no quarter, became the prize of the Westminster Grenadiers, under Lieutenant-Colonel Churchill. Here also fell, mortally wounded, the rebel chief Segastibelza. On the other hand it was in this last charge that...
Página 225 - On rejoining General Shaw with the reinforcement, I found the remnant of the 7th drawn up in close column behind the house, and as much of the 9th as could be collected standing a few yards distant, covered partly by the apple-trees and partly by the breastwork that ran in front. Colonel Fitzgerald was at the head of his men, and at the signal from the Brigadier to charge, sprang over the parapet and advanced alone with nothing but a riding-whip in his hand, in the face of the most tremendous fire...
Página 229 - ... to make a last effort in defence of my life, when I espied a soldier of the 9th in the distance, to whom I waved my sword to come to my rescue. The Carlists on his approach hung back and commenced loading their pieces — the man hesitated whether to stand or run away. It was a critical moment — when most fortunately three of my own company came up, who fixed their bayonets over my body and dared the Carlists to advance. I turned my head towards the house, and saw that my enemies had fled !...
Página 222 - I never could learn, was as brave and reckless a fellow as ever drew a blade. With a small red flag in his hand, he leaped the parapet that was before us, and rushing into the middle of the ploughed field, he waved his sword for us to advance, crying out in French, " En avant! en avant!
Página 112 - ... provisions or quarters than the rest of the force, and the 7th, 9th, and 10th, to the very last retained their superiority in numbers without receiving a single recruit from the disbanded regiments. Had the whole of the Legion been composed of Irish, instead of losing nearly a thousand men at Vitoria, we might not have lost a hundred. In spite of all their hardships, the severity of the winter, the badness of rations, the total want of pay, the Irish lived, throve, and grew fat, as if in the...
Página 112 - IRISH, instead of losing a thousand men at Vittoria, we might not have lost a hundred. In spite of all their hardships, the severity of the winter, the total want of pay, the IRISH lived, thrived, and grew fat, as if in clover.
Página 235 - His (Cordova's) boasted plan of blockade — the laissez faire system of a, juste milieu general — has fallen to the ground, and the insurrection which originally existed only in Guipuscoa and Navarre, has extended to Gallicia, Arragon, Catalonia, and to Castile itself." — Vide Twelve Months in the British Legion, by an Officer of the Ninth Regiment, p. 247. armed. It was got up in the city, and it was equipped just as you would expe'ct the wellfed citizens of London to...
Página 275 - Sebastian. I have known, for a long time, the positions which you have carried. I...