This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 Excerpt: ...sharp-shooters, which he mistook for a considerable body, hesitated--disobeyed his positive orders--and returned to the Duke for fresh instructions; thus incurring an irreparable loss of time to the army, of honour to himself. On the other wing likewise, the Dutch were repulsed in their attacks, suffering so severely ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 Excerpt: ...sharp-shooters, which he mistook for a considerable body, hesitated--disobeyed his positive orders--and returned to the Duke for fresh instructions; thus incurring an irreparable loss of time to the army, of honour to himself. On the other wing likewise, the Dutch were repulsed in their attacks, suffering so severely from the fire of the numerous batteries, that they retired in confusion to some distance from the field, where they remained sluggish and unmoved spectators of the remaining conflict. Nay more, one of their Colonels (Appius was his name, ) rode away with the greater part of his men, some 15 or 20 miles, to Ath; and from thence, with an impudent folly equal to his cowardice, wrote a letter to the States informing them that the Allied army had engaged the French, and been totally cut to pieces, except that part which he had prudently brought off safe! While Ingoldsby and the Dutch were thus failing in duty, the British and Hanoverians had not forgotten their's. These gallant troops, leaving their cavalry in the rear, from the ruggedness of the Mr. Yorke to H. Walpole, May 16. 1745. See Appendix. This regiment, though in the Dutch pay, was not of their country, but of Hesse Homburg. CHAP, ground, but dragging forwards several field piece, XXVI. plunge down the ravine between Fontenoy and 1745. Barre, and marched on against a position which the best Marshals of France had deemed impregnable, and which the best troops of that nation defended. At their head was William of Cumberland, conspicuous for his courage, and whose want of experience was supplied by an excellent officer--his military tutor--General Ligonier. The French and Swiss guards stood before their front, and offered every resistance that brave men could make; while whole ranks of the Bri...
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