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" Buonaparte's theory, the victory was theirs, by all the rules of war, for they held superior numbers, both before and behind us ; but the gallant old Picton, who had been trained in a different school, did not choose to confine himself to rules in those... "
Adventures in the Rifle Brigade in the Peninsula, France and the Netherlands ... - Page 315
by John Kincaid - 1830 - 351 pages
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Memoirs of lieutenant-general sir Thomas Picton, including his correspondence

Heaton Bowstead Robinson - 1835 - 910 pages
...his rear, he advanced, charged, and routed those in his front ; which created such a panic amongst the others, that they galloped back through the intervals in his division, with no other object in view than their own safety." But the progress and result of this sanguinary preface to the battle of Waterloo...
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Memoirs of Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Picton, G.B.C. &c. Including His ...

Heaton Bowstead Robinson - 1836 - 498 pages
...his rear, he advanced, charged, and routed those in his front ; which created such a panic amongst the others, that they galloped back through the intervals in his division, with no other object in view than their own safety." But the progress and result of this sanguinary preface to the battle of Waterloo...
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Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, ed. by R.W. Phipps, Volume 3

Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne - 1885 - 610 pages
...in his rear, he advanced, charged, and routed those in his front, which created such a panic amongst the others that they galloped back through the intervals in his division with no other object in view than their own safety." 1 "The third English division, under General Alten, comprised of Sir C. Halket's...
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Wellington's Men, Some Soldier Autobiographies: Kincaird's "Adventures in ...

William Henry Fitchett - 1900 - 440 pages
...fresh troops, they again advanced to the attack. This was a crisis in which, according to Bonaparte's theory, the victory was theirs by all the rules of...each was busy in renewing their order of battle. "The battle, on the side of the Prussians, still continued to rage in an unceasing roar of artillery. About...
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