| Virginia - 1760 - 592 pages
...citizens, ran in crouds, and in *'' confufed diforderly manner, to the intrenchments, each fight-' ing in his own way, or rather as his fear directed him....ferve them as a rampart againft the artillery of the baftion of Auvergne ; fo that being now quite expofed to their conti- The Turk* nnal fire, they fell... | |
| World history - 1760 - 578 pages
...citizens, ran in crouds, and in a confufed diforderly manner, to the intrenchments, each fight- , ing in his own way, or rather as his fear directed him....ferve them as a rampart againft the artillery of the baftion of Auvergne ; fo that being now quite expofed to their conti- T^Trn nual fire, they fell in... | |
| Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1796 - 426 pages
...own way, or rather as his fear directed him. This attack would have proved one of the moft dtfperate that had yet been felt, had not a moft vehement rain...which the enemy had reared to ferve them as a rampart againll the artillery of the baftion of Auvergne; fo that being now quite expofed to their continual... | |
| Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1816 - 766 pages
...knights, troops, and citizens, ran in crowds, and in a confuted diforderly manner, to the entrenchments. This attack would have proved one of the moft defperate...carried away all the earth which the enemy had reared to fcrvethem as a rampart againft the artillery of the baftion of Auvergne ; fo trut being now quite expofed... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 862 pages
...him. This attack would have proved one of the most desperate that had yet been felt, had not a most y5 zSq nn :C ) K [ ʹ^ 㺓 X z C0 9 r Z ZF ! 5yA f B F b z4 serve them as a rampart against the artillery of the bastion of Auvergne ; so that being now quite... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 pages
...entrenchments, and this attack would have proved one of the most desperate that had yet been made, had not a vehement rain intervened, which carried away all the earth which the enemy had reared to serve them as a rampart ; so that being now exposed to a continual fire they fell in such great numbers... | |
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