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" It was impossible to move a yard without treading upon a wounded comrade, or upon the bodies of the dead; and the loud groans of the wounded and dying was most appalling. At four o'clock our square was a perfect hospital, being full of dead, dying, and... "
The Waterloo Roll Call: With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes - Page 227
by Charles Dalton - 1904 - 296 pages
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Waterloo: Napoleon's Last Campaign

Christopher Hibbert - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 298 pages
...often saw a poor wounded animal raise its head, as if looking for its rider to afford him aid. . . . During the battle our squares presented a shocking...dead; and the loud groans of the wounded and dying was most appalling. At four o'clock our square was a perfect hospital, being full of dead, dying, and...
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The Young Oxford History of Britain & Ireland

Mike Corbishley - History - 1998 - 420 pages
...ever was in' said Wellington. One British soldier described the battlefield, ... it was impossthle to move a yard without treading upon a wounded comrade,...dead, and the loud groans of the wounded and dying was most appalling. At four o'clnck ouc square was a perfect hospital, being full of dead, dying and...
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Redcoat: The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Musket

Richard Holmes - History - 2002 - 542 pages
...Gronow thought that: our squares presented a shocking sight. Inside we were nearly suffocated by smoke. It was impossible to move a yard without treading...hospital, being full of dead, dying and mutilated soldiers . . . When we received cavalry, the order was to fire low, so that on the first discharge of musketry...
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