Identifier: greatbattlesofa01wilb (find matches)
Title: The great battles of all nations from Marathon to Santiago, 490 B.C.--A.D. 1898
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Wilberforce, Archibald
Subjects: Battles
Publisher: New York, P.F. Collier
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ped ashore in the mud, and—waitingneither for orders, nor leaders, nor supports—dashed up the hillto storm the redoubt. They reached the first redoubt, tumbledover it and through it, only to find themselves breathless in a semi-circle of fire. The men fell fast, but yet struggled fiercely upward.A furious storm of rain broke over the combatants at that moment,and made the steep grass-covered slope as slippery as mere glass.We could not see half-way down the hill, writes the Frenchofficer in command of the battery on the summit. But throughthe smoke and the driving rain they could still see the Grenadiersand Royal Americans in ragged clusters, scarce able to stand, yetstriving desperately to climb upward. The reckless ardor of theGrenadiers had spoiled Wolfes attack, the sudden storm helpedto save the French, and Wolfe withdrew his broken but furiousbattalions, having lost some five hundred of his best men andofficers. The exultant French regarded the siege as practically over; but
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(443) 444 GREAT BATTLES OF ALL NATIONS Wolfe was a man of heroic and quenchless tenacity, and never sodangerous as when he seemed to be in the last straits. He helddoggedly on, in spite of cold and tempest and disease. His ownfrail bordy broke down, and for the first time the shadow of de-pression fell on the British camps when they no longer saw the redhead and lean and scraggy body of their general moving amongthem. For a w«ek, between August 22 and August 29, he layapparently a dj-ing man, his face, with its curious angles, whitewith pain and haggard with disease. But he struggled out again,and framed yet new plans of attack. On September 10 the cap-tains of the men-of-war held a council on board the flagship, andresolved that the approach of winter required the fleet to leaveQuebec without delay. By this time, too, Wolfes scanty forcewas diminished one-seventh by disease or losses in battle. Wolfe,however, had now formed the plan which ultimately gave himsuccess, though at the co

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