 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
 | English history - 1881 - 888 lehte
...the 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 the siege, including seven hundred Portuguese ; three thousand... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1882 - 314 lehte
...the 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...excesses, the tumult rather subsided than was quelled." (Vol. iii, 377.) And again : " This storm seemed to be a signal from hell for the perpetration of villainy... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1882 - 326 lehte
...the 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 were exhausted by their own exby no such misgivings. In saturnine, confident silence they lolled behind their mud walls, or, leaning... | |
 | Great Britain. Army. East Lancashire Regiment - 1887 - 304 lehte
...report of " muskets used in violence, resounding for two days and " nights in the streets of Badajos ! On the third, when " the city was sacked, when the...wounded men were then looked to, " the dead disposed of! Five thousand men and officers " fell during this siege, and of these, including 700 " Portuguese,... | |
 | Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - 1890 - 606 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...was quelled. The wounded men were then looked to, ihe dead disposed of! Five thousand men and officers fell during this siege, and of these, including... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1893 - 144 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." 3 All this is in the nature of confession, for the historian is a partisan of battle. The same terrible... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee - 1901 - 372 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." All this is in the nature of confession, for the historian is a partisan of battle. The same terrible... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1903 - 888 lehte
...third, when the city was sacked, when tie soldiers were exhausted by their own excesses, the irault 2 5 557 5 ! Hve thousand men and officers fell in this siege, and of Uese, including seven hundred Portuguese,... | |
 | Lewis William George Butler - 1904 - 474 lehte
...9th that, partly from physical exhaustion, partly from the sight of the Provost Marshal's gallows, the " tumult rather subsided than was quelled ; the...wounded men were then looked to, the dead disposed of." Nearly 4,000 prisoners were taken, 172 guns and 80,000 shot. The retrenchments of the breaches and... | |
 | Francis Wrigley Hirst - 1906 - 616 lehte
...the 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 the siege, including seven hundred Portuguese ; three thousand... | |
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