| 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
...divide his forces into several brigades and parts, and ordered the whole to be unloaded, and no firing to be permitted on any account ; and, under this order,...without the possibility of making effectual opposition j such conduct betraying great professional incapacity on the part of the said Lieutenant-General Whitelocke,... | |
| English literature - 1808 - 694 pages
...appears from his dispatch of July 10th, that the enemy meant to occupy the flat roofs of the boused, he did, nevertheless, in the said attack, divide his...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,... | |
| 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 - 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
...divide his force into several brigades and parts, and ordered the wluve to be unloaded, and no firing to be permitted on any account, 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,... | |
| History - 1809 - 1080 pages
...divide his force into several brigades and parts, and ordered the whole to be unloaded, and no firing to be permitted on any account, and under this order, to march iuto the principal streets of the towu unprovided with proper a cient means for forcing th cadocs,... | |
| Walter Scott - Europe - 1810 - 602 pages
...divided his troops into several brigades and parts, and ordered the whole to be unloaded, and no firing to be permitted on any account ; and, under this 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... | |
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