 | Military art and science - 1832 - 602 pages
...be asked, has it happened that the bravest of the continental cavalry have so frequently failed in their attacks against steady and well-prepared infantry...progress, they seem destined to carry every thing resistlessly before them in their way. But the infantry to be attacked is prepared, the close and serried... | |
 | 1843 - 826 pages
...opening for those that follow. "It is no doubt a splendid sight, when bugle-sound and trumpet-clang send onward to the charge a gallant line of horsemen...thunder of their horses' hoofs, and, like the tornado in ft» progress, they seem destined to carry every thing before them in their way. But the infantry to... | |
 | 1843 - 778 pages
...opening for those that follow. "It is no doubt a splendid sight, when bugle-sound aid trumpet-clang send onward to the charge a gallant line of horsemen : their plumes wave, their чЬтез «learn, the very earth is shaken by the thunder of their horses' hoofs, and, like the tornado... | |
 | Philip St. George Cooke - History - 1859 - 444 pages
...opening for those that follow. " It is no doubt a splendid sight, when bugle-sound and trumpet-clang send onward to the charge a gallant line of horsemen...tornado in its progress, they seem destined to carry everything before them in their way. But the infantry to be attacked is prepared ; the close and serried... | |
 | Military art and science - 1832 - 720 pages
...be asked, has it happened that the bravest of the continental cavalry have so frequently failed in their attacks against steady and well-prepared infantry...progress, they seem destined to carry every thing resistlessly before them in their way. But the infantry to be attacked is prepared, the close and serried... | |
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To perform such deeds, however, the horsemen must be cheered by hope and animated by example; but against prepared infantry they are now generally hopeless, and led in a hopeless spirit : and little, indeed, can be expected from the feeble heart of man,... 