The Victories of the British Armies: With Anecdotes Illustrative of Modern Warfare, Volume 2

Adour advance allies arms army artillery assailants assault attack Badajoz battalions battery battle bayonet Bayonne Bivouac Blucher bridge brigade British Buonaparte Burgos cannon Captain castle cavalry centre charge Colonel columns command crossed cuirassiers D'Erlon defences desperate dragoons driven back Duke Duke of Dalmatia effect enemy enemy's English fell field fire flank force French French Marshal front gallant gallantry Garonne garrison ground Guards guerilla guns heights Hill horse Hougomont hundred hussars infantry intrenchments La Haye Sainte lancers light division Lord Wellington loss Madrid ment military morning movement Napoleon night occupied officers Pamplona passed pickets Picton plunder Portuguese position prisoners Prussian Pyrenées Quatre Bras reached rear rear-guard regiments repulsed retired retreat river road rocket Salamanca shot siege Sir Rowland Hill soldiers Soult Spaniards Spanish square storm success thousand tion tirailleurs Toulouse troops victory village Vitoria Waterloo Wellington's Despatches whole wood