| William Walton - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1837 - 558 pages
...himself with his countryman Ballesteros, the financier, was appointed Inspector de cosias yfronteras, or commander of the preventive service, when all the...king withdrew with the Biscayan brigade. VOL. II. X 306 SUCCESSES OF ZUMALACARREGUI. While the Cristinos were pursuing Zumalacarregui in Castile, he suddenly... | |
| William Nathaniel Massey - Great Britain - 1858 - 500 pages
...Clinton, who seeing that the attack was likely to fail, had pushed across the river with his brigade, the position was carried at the point of the bayonet, and the Americans fled in disorder. Great loss of This affair made it sufficiently manifest that the tho British.... | |
| James Birchall - Great Britain - 1876 - 970 pages
...but being rallied and reinforced by General Clinton, who pushed across the river with his brigade, the position was carried at the point of the bayonet, and the Americans fled in disorder. This affair made it sufficiently clear that the King's troops had not to... | |
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