 | English literature - 1808 - 1016 pages
...and ordered the whole to be unloaded, and no firing to be permitted ou any account; and under tins order to march into the principal streets of the town,...unprovided with proper and sufficient means for forcing the baricadoes, whereby the troops were, unnecessarily exposed to destruction, without the possibility... | |
 | John Whitelocke - Argentina - 1808 - 710 pages
...town of Buenos Ayres upon the 5th July 1 807, as appears from his public dispatch of the loth of July, that the enemy meant to occupy the flat roofs of the...without the possibility of making effectual opposition j such conduct betraying great professional incapacity on the part of the said Lieutenant-General Whitelocke,... | |
 | 1808 - 560 pages
...divide his forces into several brigades and parts, and ordered the whole to be unloaded, and no faring to be permitted on any account; and under this order...town, unprovided with proper and sufficient means !br forcing' the barricadoes, whereby the troops were unnecessarily exposed to destruction, without... | |
 | English literature - 1808 - 694 pages
...divide his forces into several brigades and parts, and ordered the whole to be unloaded, and no tiring to be permitted on any account; and under this order to march into the piincipal streets of the town, unprovided with proper and sufficient means for forcing the barricadoes,... | |
 | English literature - 1808 - 742 pages
...into several brigades and parts, and ordered tiie whole to be unloaded, aud no firing to l>p peramtei! on any account; and under this order to march into the principal street* of the town, unprovided with proper and MilMcmil means for forcing the harricadoin), whereby... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1809 - 1138 pages
...nevertheless, in the said attark, divide his force into several brigades and parts, and ordered the wluve to be unloaded, and no firing to be permitted on any...and under this order, to march into •the principal utreets of the town Fourth charge. — That the taid 'vHh-iunt-cencral AVhitelocke, rub. v.jucDt (o... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1809 - 1484 pages
...ordered the whole to be unloaded, and no firing to bo permitted on any account, and under this orderj to march into the -principal streets of the, town unprovided with proper and suflu cient means for forcing the barri. cadoes, whereby the troops were unnecessarily exposed to destruction,... | |
 | Walter Scott - Europe - 1810 - 602 pages
...that the enemy meant to occupy the - flat roof's of the houses, he nevertheless divided his troops into several brigades and parts, and ordered the whole...order, to march into the principal streets of the town, un«, provided with proper means for forcing the barricadoes, whereby the troops were unnecessarily... | |
 | 1810 - 602 pages
...divided his troops into several brigades and parts, and ordered the whole to be unloaded, and no firmg to be permitted on any account ; and, under this order, to march into the principal streets of the town, un« 3 provided with -proper means for forcing the barricadoes, whereby. the troops were unnecessarily... | |
 | Joachim Hayward Stocqueler - Great Britain - 1871 - 394 pages
...meant to occupy the flat roofs of the houses, he did, nevertheless, in that attack, divide his Force into several Brigades and parts, and ordered the whole...unprovided with proper and sufficient means for forcing the barricades, whereby the troops were unnecessarily exposed to destruction, without the possibility of... | |
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July 1 807, as appears from his public dispatch of the loth of July, that the enemy meant to occupy the flat roofs of the houses, he did nevertheless, in the said attack, divide his forces into several brigades and parts, and ordered the whole to be unloaded,... 