 Shameless rapacity, brutal intemperance, savage lust, cruelty and murder, shrieks and piteous lamentations, groans, shouts, imprecations, the hissing of fires bursting from the houses, the crashing of doors and windows, and the reports of muskets used...  Andrew Jackson and Early Tennessee History - Page 385by Samuel Gordon Heiskell - 1918 - 687 pagesFull view - About this book
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...savage lust, cruelty and murder, shrieks, and piteous lamentations, groans, shouts, and imprecations, the hissing of fires bursting from the houses, the...sacked, when the soldiers were exhausted by their own excesses, the tumult rather subsided than was quelled. The wounded were then looked to, — the... | |
 | International peace society - 232 pages
...intemperance, savage lust, cruelty and murder, shrieks and piteous lamentations, groans, shouts, imprecations, the hissing of fires bursting from the houses, the...resounded for two days and nights in the streets of Badajoz ! on the third, when the city was sacked, when the soldiers were exhausted by their own excesses,... | |
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...intemperance, savage lust, cruelty and murder, shrieks and piteous lamentations, groans, shouts, imprecations, the hissing of fires bursting from the houses, the...sacked, when the soldiers were exhausted by their own excesses, the tumult rather subsided than was quelled. The wounded men were then looked to, the... | |
 | William Francis Patrick Napier - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1834 - 642 pages
...intemperance, savage lust, cruelty, and murder, shrieks and piteous lamentations, groans, shouts, imprecations, the hissing of fires bursting from the houses, the...sacked, when the soldiers were exhausted by their own excesses, the tumult rather subsided than was quelled. The wounded men were then looked to, the... | |
 | 1834 - 426 pages
...intemperance, savage lust, cruelty, and murder, shrieks and piteous lamentations, groans, shouts, imprecations, the hissing of fires bursting from the houses, the...sacked, when the soldiers were exhausted by their own excesses, the tumult rather subsided than was quelled. The wounded men were then looked to, the... | |
 | 1834 - 604 pages
...savage lust, cruelty and murder, shrieks, and piteoui lamentations, groans, shouts, and imprecations, the hissing of fires bursting from the houses, the...streets of Badajos ! on the third, when the city was lacked, whea the tdji were exhausted by their own execute, the ami rather subsided than was quelled.... | |
 | Heaton Bowstead Robinson - 1835 - 910 pages
...intemperance, savage lust, cruelty and murder, shrieks and piteous lamentations, groans, shouts, imprecations, the hissing of fires bursting from the houses, the...resounded for two days and nights in the streets of Badajoz ! On the third, when the city was sacked, when the soldiers were exhausted by their own excesses,... | |
 | Memoirs - 1835 - 460 pages
...intemperance, savage lust, cruelty and murder, shrieks and piteous lamentations, groans, shouts, curses, the hissing of fires bursting from the houses, the...violence, resounded for two days and nights in the devoted town. Five thousand men and officers fell during the siege ; and of these, including seven... | |
 | Heaton Bowstead Robinson - 1836 - 498 pages
...intemperance, savage lust, cruelty and murder, shrieks and piteous lamentations, groans, shouts, imprecations, the hissing of fires bursting from the houses, the...resounded for two days and nights in the streets of Badajoz ! On the third, when the city was sacked, when the soldiers were exhausted by their own excesses,... | |
 | Henry Southern, George William Frederick Villiers Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1837 - 220 pages
...intemperance, savage lust, cruelty and murder, shrieks and piteous lamentations, groans, shouts, imprecations, the hissing of fires bursting from the houses, the...resounded for two days and nights in the streets of Badajoz ! On the third, when the city was sacked, when the soldiers were exhausted by their own excesses,... | |
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