A Complete History Of England From The Descent Of Julius Caesar To The Treaty Of Aix La Chapelle 1748 Vol 6 PDF Download

Excerpt from A Complete History of England, Vol. 10: From the Descent of Julius Cesar, to the Treaty of Aix La Chapelle, 1748; Containing the Transactions of One Thousand Eight Hundred and Three Years On the twenty-firl't day of September prince Eu A C W: gene, who 'was in the atrenches, feeing the 'tr00ps driven by the enemy from. A.lodgment 'they had made on the counterfcarp of the Tenaille, rallied and led them back to the charge; but being wound ed over therleft eye.with a mufker-lhot, he was obliged to retire, and for fome days the duke of Marlbooough fultained the whole command, both in the fiege'and of thei covering army. Oh the twenty-third, the Tenaille was ltormed, and a lodg ment made along the covered-way. Marechal Boufiiers having foundmeans to inform the-duke of Vendome that his ammunition was almol't ex pended, the chevalier dc Luxembourg with a body of horfe and dragoons to (upply the place with gunpowder, every man carrying a Bag of forty pounds Upon the crupper, They were difcovered in palling through the camp of the allie's, and purfued' to the barrier of the. Town, into which about three hundred were ad mitted but, a great number were killed by the confederataes, or. Miferably deltroyed by the explo lion of the powder which they carried.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.