 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...  A Traveller's Rambling Reminiscences of the Spanish War - Page 24by Thomas Farr - 1838 - 335 lehteFull view - About this book
 | 1834 - 614 lehte
...reports of muskets used in violence, resounded for two days and nights in the streets of Badajos ! on the third, when the city was sacked, when the soldiers...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 lehte
...the houses, the crashing of doors and windows, and the reports of muskets used in violence, resounded for two days and nights in the streets of Badajoz...wounded men were then looked to ; the dead disposed of ! " — Vol. iv. pp. 424—431. Still more hideous in its graphic power, is the description of another... | |
 | William Francis Patrick Napier - 1846 - 636 lehte
...reports of muskets used in violence, resounded for two days and nights in the streets of Badajos ! on the third, when the city was sacked, when the soldiers...wounded men were then looked to, the dead disposed of! Five thousand men and officers fell during this siege, and of these, including seven hundred Portuguese,... | |
 | William Francis Patrick Napier - 1834 - 642 lehte
...reports of muskets used in violence, resounded for two days and nights in the streets of Badajos ! on the third, when the city was sacked, when the soldiers...wounded men were then looked to, the dead disposed of! Five thousand men and officers fell during this siege, and of these, including seven hundred Portuguese,... | |
 | 1834 - 426 lehte
...reports of muskets used in violence, resounded for two days and nights in the streets of Badajos ! on the third, when the city was sacked, when the soldiers...wounded men were then looked to, the dead disposed of! " Five thousand men and officers fell during this siege, and of these, including seven hundred Portuguese,... | |
 | Heaton Bowstead Robinson - 1835 - 910 lehte
...the houses, the crashing of doors and windows, and the reports of muskets used in violence, resounded for two days and nights in the streets of Badajoz...excesses, the tumult rather subsided than was quelled."* * Lieutenant Macpherson, the officer whose gallant efforts to ascend the ladder have already been mentioned,... | |
 | Heaton Bowstead Robinson - 1836 - 498 lehte
...the houses, the crashing of doors and windows, and the reports of muskets used in violence, resounded for two days and nights in the streets of Badajoz...excesses, the tumult rather subsided than was quelled."* * Lieutenant Macpherson, the officer whose gallant efforts to ascend the ladder have already been mentioned,... | |
 | Henry Southern, George William Frederick Villiers Earl of Clarendon - 1837 - 220 lehte
...the houses, the crashing of doors and windows, and the reports of muskets used in violence, resounded for two days and nights in the streets of Badajoz!...wounded men were then looked to, the dead disposed of!" Such, unfortunately, was the conduct of troops, veterans in comparison to those of the Legion, commanded... | |
 | Thomas Farr - 1838 - 362 lehte
...absolute " madness, a fire was wilfully lighted in the " middle of the great magazine, when the " town and all in it would have been blown " to atoms, but...men were then " looked to — the dead disposed of ! " " Such unfortunately was the conduct of " troops," says the pamphlet on Spanish policy, " veterans... | |
 | Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - 1839 - 890 lehte
...the houses, the crashing of doors and windows, and the reports of muskets used in violence, resounded for two days and nights in the streets of Badajoz!...wounded men were then looked to, the dead disposed of! Five thousand men and officers fell during this siege, and of these, including seven hundred Portuguese,... | |
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