 | Eugène Labaume - 1814 - 436 Seiten
...they found in their way. Many hundreds were crushed to death by the wheels of .the cannon. Others, hoping to save themselves by swimming, were frozen...to the bottom. Thousands and thousands of victims, deprived of all hope, threw themselves headlong into the Beresina, and perished in the waves. The division... | |
 | 1814 - 644 Seiten
...they found in their way. Many hundreds were crushed to deatli by the wheels of the cannon. Others, hoping to save themselves by swimming, were frozen in the middle of the river, or perished !)• p'aci: g themselves on pieces of ice, which sunk to the bottom. Thousand! and thousands of victims,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1815 - 558 Seiten
...the cavalry, and the infantry sill pressed on, endeavouring to push before one another. The strongesi impeded the passage of the rest, or threw them into...despair, threw themselves headlong into the Beresina, and peri?iied in the waves.'— p. 358. I ^ii A f T.he charaeMMfsof Count Wittgenstein stands deservedly... | |
 | Eugène Labaume - 1815 - 470 Seiten
...whom they found in their way. Many hundreds were crushed to death by the wheels of the cannon. Others, hoping to save themselves by swimming, were frozen...despair, threw themselves headlong into the Beresina, and were lost in the waves. Another was seen hemmed in by the ice in the middle of the river. Being able... | |
 | Eugène Labaume - 1817 - 376 Seiten
...whom they found in then- way. Many hundreds were crushed to death by the wheels of the cannon. Others, hoping to save themselves by swimming, were frozen...to the bottom. Thousands and thousands of victims, deprived of all hope, threw themselves headlong into the Beresina, and were lost in the waves. The... | |
 | Edward Baines - 1818 - 746 Seiten
...that interrupted their passage. Hundreds were crushed to death by the wheels of the cannon ; others, hoping to save themselves by swimming, were frozen...perished by placing themselves on pieces of ice, which, overweighed, sunk in the stream ; and thousands of victims, deprived of hope, threw themselves into... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 Seiten
...whom they found in their way. Many hundreds were crushed to death by the wheels of the cannon. Others, hoping to save themselves by swimming, were frozen...to the bottom. Thousands and thousands of victims, deprived of all hope, threw themselves headlong into the Beresina, and were lost in the waves. The... | |
 | William Oxberry - 1824 - 384 Seiten
...whom they found in their way. Many hundreds were crushed to death by the wheels of the cannon. Others, hoping to save themselves by swimming, were frozen...despair, threw themselves headlong into the Beresina, and were lost in the waves. One female was seen hemmed in by the ice in the middle of the river. Being... | |
 | William Oxberry - 1824 - 384 Seiten
...were crushed to death by the wheels of the cannon. Others, hoping to save themselves by swimriling, were frozen in the middle of the river, or perished...despair, threw themselves headlong into the Beresina, and were lost in the waves. One female was seen hemmed in by the ice in the middle of the river. Being... | |
 | 1825 - 840 Seiten
...whom they found in their way. Many huikdreds were crushed to death by the wheels of the cannon. Some, hoping to save themselves by swimming, were frozen in the middle of the river, or perished on pieces of ice which were forced to the bottom. Thousands, driven to despair, threw themselves headlong... | |
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The strongest threw into the river those who were weaker, and hindered their passage, or unfeelingly trampled under foot all the sick whom they found in their way. Many hundreds were crushed to death by the wheels of the cannon : others, hoping to save... 
