 | George Noakes (quarter-master sjt.) - 1875 - 188 oldal
...been, and was still being enacted, that almost beggars description. " It was," says Dr. Russell, " a series of dreadful deeds of daring, of sanguinary...Russian or British, issued only to engage fresh foes." It has been well termed the soldier's battle, for once engaged in this pell-mell fight, every man was... | |
 | George Noakes - 1875 - 178 oldal
...been, and was still being enacted, that almost beggars description. " It was," says Dr. Russell, " a series of dreadful deeds of daring, of sanguinary...hand-to-hand fights, of despairing rallies, of desperate assaults—in glens and valleys, in brushwood glades and remote dells, hidden from all human eyes,... | |
 | National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) - 1875 - 418 oldal
...indescribable. "It was," said Mr. Russell, the accomplished and trustworthy correspondent of the Times, " a series of dreadful deeds of daring, of sanguinary...battalions of the Czar gave way before our steady courage and the chivalrous fire of France. No one, however placed, could have witnessed even a small portion... | |
 | sir Henry Montague Hozier - 1877 - 530 oldal
...by benedictions and corn-brandy. "The battle," says Mr. Russell, "admits of no description. It was a series of dreadful deeds of daring, of sanguinary...Russian or British, issued only to engage fresh foes. One of the first things the Russians did, when a break in the fog enabled them to see the camp of the... | |
 | Edwin Hodder - 1878 - 488 oldal
...of no description. It was a series of dreadful deeds of daring, of sanguinary hand-to-hand lights, of despairing rallies, of desperate assaults, in glens...from all human eyes, and from which the conquerors, Russians or British, issued only to engage fresh foes, till our old supremacy, so rudely assailed,... | |
 | Thomas Archer - 1883 - 786 oldal
...was a series of dreadful deeds of daring, of sanguinary hand -to -hand fights, of despairing sallies, of desperate assaults in glens and valleys, in brushwood...battalions of the czar gave way before our steady courage and the DEFEAT OF THE RUSSIAN HOST. 113 chivalrous fire of France." The struggle around the battery... | |
 | Thomas Archer (historical writer.) - 1883 - 754 oldal
...was a series of dreadful deeds of daring, of sanguinary hand-to-hand fights, of despairing sallies, of desperate assaults in glens and valleys, in brushwood...— till our old supremacy, so rudely assailed, was trinmphantly asserted, and the battalions of the czar gave way before our steady courage and the DEFEAT... | |
 | Thomas Archer - 1883 - 766 oldal
...correspondent, in his account of the war says, "The battle of Inkerman admits of no description. It was a series of dreadful deeds of daring, of sanguinary hand-to-hand fights, of despairing sallies, of desperate assaults in glens and valleys, in brushwood glades and remote dells, hidden from... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1886 - 312 oldal
...inextricably mixed in the hurly-burly. Inkerman has happily been called 'the soldiers' battle.' 'It was a series of dreadful deeds of daring, of sanguinary...and valleys, in brushwood glades and remote dells — from which the conquerors, Russian or British, issued only to engage fresh foes, till our old supremacy,... | |
 | 1893 - 904 oldal
...correspondence to the London Times. He said : " The battle of Inkerman admits of no description. It was a series of dreadful deeds of daring, of sanguinary...and valleys, in brushwood glades and remote dells. . . . " The British and French, many of whom had been murdered by the Russians as they lay wounded,... | |
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Inkermann admits of no description. It was a series of dreadful deeds of daring, of sanguinary hand-to-hand fights, of despairing rallies, of desperate assaults — in glens and valleys, in brushwood glades and remote dells, hidden from all human eyes,... 
