 | Military art and science - 1842 - 530 pages
...be so easy for their government to put an end to it. THE GUARDS AT FONTENOY. BY COLONEL PONSONBY. " Six thousand English veterans in stately column tread, Their cannon blaze in front and flank, and Hay is at their head. Upon the open plain alone they rose and kept their course, With ready fire... | |
 | Thomas Osborne Davis, Thomas Davis - Ballads, English - 1845 - 364 pages
...English ranks, and Dutch auxiliary. As vainly, through De Barri's wood, the British soldiers burst— The French artillery drove them back, diminished,...chance to try. On Fontenoy, on Fontenoy, how fast his gen'rals ride! And mustering come his chosen troops, like clouds at eventide. Six thousand English... | |
 | Thomas Osborne Davis - 1870 - 264 pages
...English ranks, and Dutch auxiliary. As vainly, through De Band's wood, the British soldiers burst, The French artillery drove them back, diminished,...And mustering come his chosen troops, like clouds af eventide. H. Six thousand English veterans in stately column tread, Their cannon blaze in front... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...the English ranks and Dutch auxiliary. As vainly through De Barri's wood the British soldiers burst, The French artillery drove them back, diminished and...mustering come his chosen troops like clouds at eventide. And on the open plain above they rose and kept their course, With ready fire, and grim resolve, that... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1852 - 344 pages
...the English ranks and Dutch auxiliary. As vainly through De Barri's wood the British soldiers burst, The French artillery drove them back, diminished and...Lord Hay is at their head. Steady they step adown the slope, steady they mount the hill, Steady they load, steady they fire, moving right onward still, Betwixt... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 588 pages
...the English ranks and Dutch auxiliary. As vainly through De Barri's wood the British soldiers burst, The French artillery drove them back, diminished and...Lord Hay is at their head. Steady they step adown the slope, steady they mount the hill, Steady they load, steady they fire, moving right onward still, Betwixt... | |
 | Thomas Davis - 1854 - 268 pages
...English ranks, and Dutch auxiliary. As vainly, through De Barri's wood, the British soldiers burst, The French artillery drove them back, diminished,...mustering come his chosen troops, like clouds at eventide. n. Six thousand English veterans in stately column tread, Their cannon blaze in front and flank, Lord... | |
 | Thomas Davis - English poetry - 1857 - 274 pages
...English ranks, and Dutch auxiliary. As vainly, through De Barri's wood, the British soldiers burst, The French artillery drove them back, diminished,...Cumberland beheld with anxious eye, And ordered up hia last reserve, his latest chance to try , On Fontenoy, on Fontenoy, how fast his generals ride I... | |
 | Spirit - 1861 - 224 pages
...English ranks, and Dutch auxiliary. As vainly, through De Barri's wood, the British soldiers burst — The French artillery drove them back, diminished and...chance to try. On Fontenoy, on Fontenoy, how fast his gen'rals ride ! A.nd mustering come his chosen troops, like clonds at eventide. n. Six thousand English... | |
 | Henry Benson Stuart - Infantry - 1861 - 158 pages
...who hated the " bloody Sassenach " with a fervour that has never been surpassed even by Frenchmen. " Six thousand English veterans in stately column tread, Their cannon blaze in front and Hani; , Lord Hay is at their head ; Steady they step a-down the slope — steady they climb the hill... | |
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De Barri's wood, the British soldiers burst, The French artillery drove them back, diminished and dispersed. The bloody Duke of Cumberland beheld with anxious eye, And ordered up his last reserve, his latest chance to try. On Fontenoy, on Fontenoy, how... 
