| Sir Vincent Eyre - 1843 - 480 pages
...at Waterloo, which defied the repeated desperate onsets of Napoleon's choicest cavalry. At Beymaroo we formed squares to resist the distant fire of infantry,...General would consider this to be a novel fashion ; yet Brigadier Shelton had the benefit of Peninsular experience in his younger days, and, it must be owned,... | |
| Edward Thornton - 1845 - 574 pages
...at Waterloo, which defied the repeated desperate onsets of Napoleon's choicest cavalry. At Behmauroo we formed squares to resist the distant fire of infantry,...ridge, up which no cavalry could charge with effect." It thus appears that the men were disposed in the manner best adapted to oppose cavalry, there being... | |
| Sir Vincent Eyre - 1879 - 362 pages
...SQUARES at Waterloo, which defied the repeated desperate ousets of Napoleon's choicest cavalry. At Bemdru we formed squares to resist the distant fire of infantry,...General would consider this to be a novel fashion ; yet Brigadier Shelton had the benefit of Peninsular experience in his younger days, and, it must be owned,... | |
| Sir Vincent Eyre - 1879 - 364 pages
...SQUARES at Waterloo, which defied the repeated desperate onsets of Napoleon's choicest cavalry. At Bemdru we formed squares to resist the distant fire of infantry,...General would consider this to be a novel fashion ; yet Brigadier Shelton had the benefit of Peninsular experience in his younger days, and, it must be owned,... | |
| Maud Diver - 1913 - 734 pages
...heights, have British squares been so formed and so placed — perched, unprotected, on a steep ridge "to resist the distant fire of infantry; thus presenting a solid mass against the aim of the best marksmen in the world." Two hundred yards behind the first square a second was drawn up, and... | |
| Edward Thornton - 1845 - 570 pages
...at Waterloo, which defied the repeated desperate onsets of Napoleon's choicest cavalry. At Behmauroo we formed squares to resist the distant fire of infantry,...ridge, up which no cavalry could charge with effect." It thus appears that the men were disposed in the manner best adapted to oppose cavalry, there being... | |
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