 | George Ranken, William Bayne Ranken - Crimean War, 1853-1856 - 1857 - 174 pages
...they straggled up to the assault in support of the advance, seemed stunned and paralyzed — there was little of that dash and enthusiasm which might...traverses, near the salient, for half-an-hour at the enemy, — also firing behind his parados and traverses, — began to waver. I rushed up the salient... | |
 | Anthony Sterling - Crimean War, 1853-1856 - 1895 - 508 pages
...as they struggled up to the assault in support of the advance, seemed stunned and paralysed. There was little of that dash and enthusiasm which might...traverses, near the salient, for half-an-hour at the enemy — also firing behind his parados and traverses — began to waver. I rushed up the salient... | |
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... there was little of that dash and enthusiasm which might have been looked for from British soldiers in an assault ; in fact it required all the efforts and example of their officers to get the men on, and these were rendered almost ineffective from... 