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" Our execution must have been terrible. "We had the 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 would take his place with grim determination... "
The Rescue of Cuba: An Episode in the Growth of Free Government - Страница 105
написао/ла Andrew Sloan Draper - 1899 - 186 страница
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The War with Spain: A Complete History of the War of 1898 Between the United ...

Charles Morris - 1898 - 450 страница
...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...
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The Fall of Santiago

Thomas Jondrie Vivian - 1898 - 328 страница
...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...
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The Fall of Santiago

Thomas Jondrie Vivian - 1898 - 332 страница
...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,...
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Campaigning in Cuba

George Kennan - 1899 - 286 страница
...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...
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The Great Events by Famous Historians, Том 19

Charles Francis Horne - 1905 - 432 страница
...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...
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The sailing and disembarkation of the Fifth Corps ; Las Guasimas ; El Caney ...

Herbert Howland Sargent - 1907 - 262 страница
...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...
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Roads of Adventure

Ralph Delahaye Paine - 1922 - 570 страница
...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...
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Roads of Adventure

Ralph Delahaye Paine - 1922 - 534 страница
...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...
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The Senator and the Sharecropper's Son: Exoneration of the Brownsville Soldiers

John Downing Weaver - 1997 - 308 страница
...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...
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Decisive Battles of the U.S.A., 1776-1918

J. F. C. Fuller - 2007 - 436 страница
...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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