 | 1833 - 598 pages
...Adam's brigade, it seems probable that the body of cuirassiers was hastily regarded as a fourth. $ "The enemy made one last attempt at a stand on the...right of La Belle Alliance ; but a charge from General Adam's brigade again threw (hem into a state of confusion, which was nffw inextricable, and their ruin... | |
 | 1830 - 426 pages
...conceived. It was a fine summer's evening, just before sunset. The French were flying in one confused moss. British lines were seen in close pursuit, and in admirable...plain to the left was filled with Prussians. The enemy moile one liud happened to them yesterday? ' I'll be hanged,' says he, ' if I know any thing at all... | |
 | 1833 - 598 pages
...Adam's brigade, it seems probable that the body of cuirassiers was hastily regarded as a fourth. .*• " The enemy made one last attempt at a stand on the...right of La Belle Alliance ; but a charge from General Adam's brigade again threw them into a state of confusion, which was now inextricable, and their ruin... | |
 | William Henry Fitchett - 1900 - 486 pages
...It was a fine summer's evening, just before sunset. The French were flying in one confused mass. The British lines were seen in close pursuit, and in admirable...plain to the left was filled with Prussians." The Prussians, indeed, were now coming up fast, full of admiration for the part the British had played,... | |
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This movement had carried us clear of the smoke, and, to people who had been for so many hours enveloped in darkness, in the midst of destruction, and naturally anxious about the result of the day, the scene which now met the eye conveyed a feeling of... 