... and some of the scenes which ensued are too dreadful and disgusting to relate ; where two or three thousand armed men, many of them mad drunk, others depraved and unprincipled, were freed from all restraint, running up and down the town, the atrocities... Memoirs of the War in Spain, from 1808 to 1814 - Page 423by Louis-Gabriel Suchet (duc d'Albufera) - 1829Full view - About this book
| 1825 - 626 pages
...mothers. TH all restraint, running up and down the town, the atrocities which took place may be readily imagined ; — but in justice to th,e army, I must say they were not general, and in most cases perpetrated by cold-blooded villains, who were backward enough in the attack. Many... | |
| Portugal. [Appendix.], Joseph Donaldson - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1827 - 568 pages
...freed from all restraint, running up and down the town, the atrocities which took place may be readily imagined; — but in justice to the army, I must say they were not general, and in most cases perpetrated by cold blooded villains, who were backward enough in the attack. Many... | |
| 1836 - 884 pages
...freed from all restraint, running up and down the town, the atrocities which took place may be readily imagined ; but in justice to the army, I must say they were not general, and in most cases perpetrated by cold-blooded villains, who were backward enough in the attack. Many... | |
| Great Britain - 1836 - 480 pages
...freed from all restraint, running up and down the town, the atrocities which took place may be readily imagined ; but in justice to the army, I must say they were not general, and in most cases perpetrated by cold-blooded villains, who were backward enough in the attack. Many... | |
| Joseph Donaldson - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1845 - 254 pages
...freed from all restraint, running up and down the town, the atrocities which took place may be readily imagined, — but in justice to the army, I must say they were not general, and in most cases perpetrated by cold-blooded villains, who were backward enough in the attack. Many... | |
| Joseph Donaldson - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1845 - 238 pages
...restraint, running up and down the town, the atrocities which took place may be readily imagined,—but in justice to the army, I must say they were not general, and in most cases perpetrated by cold-blooded villains, who were backward enough in the attack. Many... | |
| 1849 - 750 pages
...freed from all restraint, running up and down the town, the atrocities which took place may be easily imagined ; — but in justice to the army, I must say they were not general, and in most cases were perpetrated by coldTHE TERRIFIC Ill blooded villains, who were backward enough... | |
| William Scott, Francis Garden, James Bowling Mozley - Christianity - 1827 - 822 pages
...freed from all restraint, running up and down the town, the atrocities which took place may be readily imagined ; — but in justice to the army, I must say they were not general, and in most cases perpetrated by coldblooded villains, who were backward enough in the attack. Many... | |
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