 They had no sooner got within shooting distance than up came a comp. of cavalry at full charge, with swords and revolvers drawn, looking like so many flying devils. On they came, to what I supposed certain destruction, but nothing like lead or iron seemed...  West American History - Stran 695avtor: Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1902Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1889 - 890 strani
...saw ' they were regular demons, that iron and lead had no effect upon, in the shape of Pike's Peakers from the Denver gold mines.' After the first retreat...were pouring it into them from every side like hail. lu a moment these devils had run the gauntlet for half a mile and were fighting hand to hand with our... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1888 - 880 strani
...up came the cannon, with the enemy at their heels; but when they saw us ready they stopped, but oaly for a short time, for in a few moments they could...devils had. run the gauntlet for half a mile and were lighting hand to hand with our men in the road. ' Behind the ditch ' we felt safe, but again we were... | |
 | Eugene Parsons - 1908 - 332 strani
...cavalrymen looked like so many flying demons. "Nothing like lead or iron," says one of the Texans, "seemed to stop them, for we were pouring it into them from every side like hail. We expected to shoot the last one before they reached us, but luck was against us, and after fighting... | |
 | Ralph Emerson Twitchell - 1912 - 892 strani
...when the cavalry under Captain Cook charged them gallantly, running the Texans down up came a company of cavalry at full charge, with swords and revolvers...nothing like lead or iron seemed to stop them, for we poured both into them from every side like hail in a storm. In a moment these devils had run the gauntlet... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Military Affairs - 1930 - 116 strani
...Denver gold mines." * * * " They had 110 sooner got within shooting distance than up came a company of cavalry at' full charge, with swords and revolvers...were fighting hand to hand with our men in the road." (P. 695.) Bancroft closes his chapter with a reference to the act of the Legislature of the Territory... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Military Affairs. Subcommittee No. 8 - 1980 - 118 strani
...Denver gold mines." * * * " They had no sooner got within shooting distance than up came a company of cavalry at full charge, with swords and revolvers...half a mile and were fighting hand to hand with our nien in the road." (P. 605.) Bancroft closes his chapter with a reference to the act of the Legislature... | |
 | Ray Charles Colton - 1959 - 252 strani
...down like sheep. . . . They had no sooner got within shooting distance of us, than up came a company of cavalry at full charge, with swords and revolvers...pouring it into them from every side, like hail in a storm. In a moment these devils had run the gauntlet for half a mile and were fighting hand to hand... | |
 | Donald Lavash - 2006 - 602 strani
...member of the Confederacy describes it from the viewpoint of one who saw it coming: "Up came a company of cavalry at full charge with swords and revolvers...many flying devils. On they came to what I supposed was destruction; but nothing like lead or iron seemed to stop them, for we were pouring it into them... | |
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