 | John William Norie - 1827 - 632 pages
...columns ; which were, moreover, exposed to musketry, hand-grenades, bricks, and stones, from the tops of the houses. Every householder, with his negroes, defended his dwelling, each of which was in itself л fortress, the doors being barricadoed in so strong a manner as to render them almost impregnable.... | |
 | Edward Pelham Brenton - 1837 - 778 pages
...bricks, and stones, from the tops of the houses, added to tti« destructive fire of guns and musketry. " Every householder with his negroes defended his dwelling, each of which was in itself a fortress." " Such," says the general, " was the situation of the army on the morning of the 6th of July, when... | |
 | George Lillie Craik, Charles MacFarlane - 1844 - 926 pages
...of the fire to which the troops were exposed was violent in the extreme. Grape-shot at the corner of the streets, musketry, hand-grenades, bricks and stones...each of which was in itself a fortress ; and it is not perhaps too much to say that the whole male population of Buenos Ayres was employed in its defence."*... | |
 | Joachim Hayward Stocqueler - 1871 - 394 pages
...the fire to which the troops were exposed was violent in the extreme. Grape-shot at the corners of the streets, musketry, hand-grenades, bricks, and...each of which was in itself a fortress ; and it is not perhaps too much to say that the whole male population of Buenos Ayres was employed in its defence."... | |
 | Miguel Lobo - 1875 - 458 pages
...the fire to which the troops were exposed, was violent in the ex»treme. Grape shot at the corners of the streets, musketry, hand-grenades, bricks and »stones,...each of which was in itself a fortress, and it Is not, perhaps, too much »to say, that the whole male population of Buenos Aires was employed in its... | |
 | Miguel Lobo - 1875 - 464 pages
...the flre to which the troops were exposed, was violent in the ex»treme. Grape shot at the corners of the streets, musketry, hand-grenades, bricks and «stones,...tops of all the houses; every householder with his negrees defended »his dwelling, each of which was in itself a fortress, and it is not, perhaps, too... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1809 - 1154 pages
...was violent in the ex. treme. Grape shot at the corners of the streets, musquetry, hand, grenades, bricks, and stones from the tops of all the houses...dwelling, each of which was in itself a fortress ; and it i> not perhaps too much to say. that the whole male population of llucnos Aj res was employed in ill... | |
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The nature of the fire to which the Troops were exposed, was violent in the extreme. Grape-shot at the corners of all the streets, musketry, handgrenades, bricks, and stones from the tops of all the houses, every householder with his Negroes defended... 
