 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 696 pàgines
...thousands of stragglers, mingled with the usual followers of a camp, and with all those individuals whcr, accompanying, for various reasons, the French from...operated to detain them on the right bank. The baggage, which, in spite of the quantity alrea. dy lost, of the difficulty of transportation, and of Napoleon's... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 466 pàgines
...front, but the left wing had no point of support, It remained, according to the military phrase, in the air, and was covered by two regiments of cavalry....operated to detain them on the right bank. The baggage, •which, in spite of the quantity already lost, of the difficulty of transportation, and of Napoleon's... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1835 - 482 pàgines
...front, but the left wing had no point of support, It remained, according to the military phrase, in the air, and was covered by two regiments of cavalry-...the dangerous and crowded passages, had all operated t» detain them on the right bank. The baggage, which, in spite of the quantity already lost, of the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 468 pàgines
...front, but the left wing had no point of support. It remained, according to the military phrase, in the air, and was covered by two regiments of cavalry....breaking of the bridges, and the time spent in the repair—the fears of the unhappy wretches to trust themselves to the dangerous and crowded passages,... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1835 - 482 pàgines
...front, but the left wing had no point of support. It remained, according to the military phrase, in the air, and was covered by two regiments of cavalry....breaking of the bridges, and the time spent in the repair—the fears of the unhappy wretches to trust themselves to the dangerous and crowded passages,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1836 - 494 pàgines
...front, but the left wing had no point of support. It remained, according to the military phrase, in the air, and was covered by two regiments of cavalry....breaking of the bridges, and the time spent in the repair—the fears of the unhappy wretches to trust themselves to the dangerous and crowded passages,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1836 - 498 pàgines
...Moscow, had survived the horrors of the march. Women, children, dotncstice. the aged and the infant*, were seen among the wretched mass, and wandered by...seek in vain for passage. The want of order, which it wai impossible to preserve, the breaking of the bridges, and. . , ÎSlh of November, Admiral Tchitclia^oiT... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1836 - 498 pàgines
...Moscow, had survived the horrors of the march. Women, children, dotncstice. the aged and the infant*, were seen among the wretched mass, and wandered by...seek in vain for passage. The want of order, which it wai impossible to preserve, the breaking of the bridges, and. ÎSlh of November, Admiral Tchitclia^oiT... | |
 | John Lloyd Stephens - 1838 - 550 pàgines
...his line thousands of stragglers, old men, women, and children, were wandering by the side of this river like the fabled spectres which throng the banks of the infernal Styx, seeking in vain for passage. The balls of the Russians began to fall among the disordered mass, and... | |
 | John L. Stephens - 1838 - 288 pàgines
...his line thousands of stragglers, old men, women, and children, were wandering by the side of this river like the fabled spectres •which throng the banks of the infernal Styx, seeking in vain for passage. The balls of the Russians began to fall among the disordered mass, and... | |
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The right of this corps d'armee rested on the river ; a ravine full of bushes covered their front, but the left wing had no point of support, It remained, according to the military phrase, in the air, and was covered by two regiments of cavalry. Behind... 
