| Charles Morris - 1898 - عدد الصفحات: 450
...advantage of our position and mowed them down by the hundreds, but they never retreated or fell back an inch. As one man fell shot through the heart, another...kept up their firing without storming our trenches." On the extreme left General Duffield had begun the day' s fighting by an attack on the coast village... | |
| Thomas Jondrie Vivian - 1898 - عدد الصفحات: 328
...advantage of our position and mowed them down by the hundreds, but they never retreated nor fell back an inch. As one man fell, shot through the heart, another...kept up their firing without storming our trenches. "Our stock of ammunition was dwindling fast, we were losing rapidly, and were fighting the battle of... | |
| Thomas Jondrie Vivian - 1898 - عدد الصفحات: 332
...advantage of our position and mowed them down by the hundreds, but they never retreated nor fell back an inch. As one man fell, shot through the heart, another...well have been avoided had they only kept up their tiring without storming our trenches. "Our stock of ammunition was dwindling fast, we were losing rapidly,... | |
| George Kennan - 1899 - عدد الصفحات: 286
...advantage in position, and mowed them down by the hundreds; but they never retreated or fell back an inch. As one man fell, shot through the heart, another...every line of his face. Their gallantry was heroic." There could hardly be a more generous or a better deserved encomium. The battle on the Siboney-Santiago... | |
| Charles Francis Horne - 1905 - عدد الصفحات: 432
...advantage of our position and mowed them down by hundreds, but they never retreated or fell back an inch. As one man fell, shot through the heart, another...unflinching devotion to duty in every line of his face." The number of Spanish dead is unknown. But three hundred seventy-seven American soldiers were killed... | |
| Herbert Howland Sargent - 1907 - عدد الصفحات: 262
...advantage of position, and mowed them down by the hundreds; but they never retreated or fell back an inch. As one man fell, shot through the heart, another...every line of his face. Their gallantry was heroic." The courage of the Spaniards was magnificent. As the shrapnel burst over the village or crashed ' into... | |
| Ralph Delahaye Paine - 1922 - عدد الصفحات: 570
...the advantage of position and mowed them down by hundreds; but they never retreated or fell back an inch. As one man fell, shot through the heart, another...unflinching devotion to duty in every line of his face." There was a singular contrast between this glimpse of Wood and Lawton and a scene at the ancient stone... | |
| Ralph Delahaye Paine - 1922 - عدد الصفحات: 534
...the advantage of position and mowed them down by hundreds; but they never retreated or fell back an inch. As one man fell, shot through the heart, another...unflinching devotion to duty in every line of his face." There was a singular contrast between this glimpse of Wood and Lawton and a scene at the ancient stone... | |
| John Downing Weaver - 1997 - عدد الصفحات: 308
...advantage of our position and mowed them down by the hundreds, but they never retreated or fell back an inch. As one man fell shot through the heart, another...these men, who fought like lions and fell like men." Colonel Daggett sent the regiment home with the reminder: "You may well return to the United States... | |
| J. F. C. Fuller - 2007 - عدد الصفحات: 436
...the advantage of position, and mowed them down by hundreds ; but they never retreated or fell back an inch. As one man fell, shot through the heart, another...every line of his face. Their gallantry was heroic." ** Nevertheless, vastly outnumbered though they were, the Spaniards bravely held on to their trenches,... | |
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