Daring Deeds of American Heroes: With Biographical SketchesJames Orimel Brayman Derby & Miller, 1853 - 499 strani |
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action American approach arms army arrived artillery assailants attack ball battery battle BATTLE OF RESACA bayonet boats brave brig brigade British army British officers broadside camp cannon Captain captured cavalry charge Colonel Colonel Brodhead column command commenced Commodore contest Cornwallis crew detachment dragoons early eight encamped enemy enemy's engaged fell fire flank force Fort Erie forward frigate front gallant garrison George Prevost ground guard guns hill horses Huejutla immediately Indians infantry instantly intrepidity killed and wounded Lieutenant Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Cornwallis loss Major manded Marion ment Mexican miles militia morning musket night o'clock ordered party passed pieces position prisoners ravine rear received regiment retired retreat rifle river road rushed sail savage schooner Scott sent ship shot side sloop sloop-of-war soldiers soon South Carolina squadron surrendered took Tories town Tripoli troops Tryon county vessels victory volunteers Washington whole
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Stran 411 - The sloop that was opposed to the Eagle, had struck some time before, and drifted down the line ; the sloop which was with their galleys having struck also : three of their galleys are said to be sunk, the others pulled off.
Stran 320 - Indians — the cries of nine women and children (a part soldiers' and a part citizens' wives, who had taken shelter in the fort) and the desponding of so many of the men, which was worse than all— I can assure you that my feelings were...
Stran 45 - Your valor has been famed abroad, and acknowledged, as appears by the advice and orders to me, from the General Assembly of Connecticut, to surprise and take the garrison now before us. I now propose to advance before you, and, in person, conduct you through the wicket-gate ; for we must this morning either quit our pretensions to...
Stran 373 - The 1 iawrence was reduced to a mere wreck ; her decks were streaming with blood, and covered with mangled limbs and the bodies of the slain; nearly the whole of her crew was either killed or wounded ; her guns were dismounted, and the Commodore and his officers helped to work the last gun that was capable of being used.
Stran 284 - All these orders were obeyed with spirit and promptitude ; but such was the impetuosity of the charge by the first line of infantry that the Indians and Canadian militia and volunteers were...
Stran 373 - ... into their places ; the dead remained where they fell until after the action. At this juncture the fortune of the battle trembled on a point, and the enemy believed the day their own. The Lawrence was reduced to a mere wreck ; her decks were streaming with blood, and covered with mangled limbs...
Stran 411 - Eagle, not being able to bring her guns to bear, cut her cable, and anchored in a more eligible position, between my ship and the Ticonderoga...
Stran 135 - ... civil. • Many of the Provincials and Greens were known to each other ; and as they advanced so near as to afford opportunities of mutual recognition, the contest became, if possible, more of a death struggle than before. Mutual resentments, and feelings of hate and revenge, raged in their bosoms. The Provincials fired upon them as they advanced, and then springing like chafed tigers from their covers, attacked them with their bayonets and the butts of their muskets, or both parties in closer...
Stran 247 - could surpass the intrepidity of both officers and men on this occasion. They rushed on, in good order, through a heavy cannonade, and a shower of musketry, with such unshaken resolution, that they bore down all before them.
Stran 431 - ... was composed of the 4th and 6th infantry, who were instructed to sustain the volunteers, the 1st infantry being held in reserve. " Moving on in the direction of the hammock, after proceeding about a quarter of a mile, we reached the swamp which separated us from the enemy, three-quarters of a mile in breadth, being totally impassable for...