 | SEVERAL HANDS - 1778 - 586 strani
...broken, when all the leading parties of the four divifions advanced at the (две time, with fcaling ladders; but, after much endeavour for an hour, not...over the parapet; and many had fallen wounded ; other parries followed .with as little fijccefs, until all were fo fatigued, that a ceffation was ordered,... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1778 - 508 strani
...leading parties of the four divifiong advanced at the fame time, with fcaling ladder» ; but, arter much .endeavour for an hour, not a man had been able...the parapet ; and many' had fallen wounded; other partie» followed with as little fuccefs, until all were fo fatigued, that a ceflation was ordered,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 832 strani
...were broken. All the leading parties of the four divisions then advanced at the same time with scaling ladders ; but, after much endeavour for an hour, not a man had been able to gain the rampart, and many had fallen wounded. Other parties followed with little success, until all... | |
 | 1841 - 804 strani
...broken, when all the leading parties of the four divisions advanced, at the same time, with scaling ladders ; but after much endeavour for an hour, not...fallen wounded ; other parties followed with as little success, until all were so fatigued, that a cessation was ordered, during which the field pieces having... | |
 | David Freemantle Carmichael - 1869 - 414 strani
...were broken, when all the leading parties of the four divisions advanced at the same time with scaling ladders ; but, after much endeavour for an hour, not...fallen wounded ; other parties followed with as little success, until all were so fatigued, that a cessation was ordered, during which the field-pieces, having... | |
 | W. Francis - 1992 - 386 strani
...t>roken, when all the leading parties of the four divisions advanced at the same time with scaling ladders ; but, after much endeavour for an hour, not...fallen wounded ; other parties followed with as little success, until all were so fatigued, that a cessation was ordered, during which the field-pieces, having... | |
 | 1849 - 750 strani
...advanced, at the same time, with scaling ladders ; but after much endeavour for an hour, not a mail had been able to get over the parapet, and many had...fallen wounded ; other parties followed with as little success, until all were so fatigued, that a cessation was ordered, during which the field pieces having... | |
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By nine o'clock, several of the battlements were broken, when all the leading parties of the four divisions advanced at the same time with scaling ladders ; but, after much endeavour for an hour, not a man had been able to get over the parapet; and... 