 An easily-repelled attack was first made on the outwork in the daytime, probably more with the view of blinding the besieged to the nature of the main operations than with any expectation of succeeding in an open assault, with every disadvantage of the...  Bentley's Miscellany - Страница 131под редакцията на - 1848Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | 1848 - 614 страници
...open assault, with every disadvantage of the ground to contand against. But, when the darkness had sat in, Demosthenes formed his men in columns, each soldier...his men along by the foot of the southern flank of Epipolao in a direction towards the interior of the island, till ho came immediately below the narrow... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1848 - 692 страници
...the besieged remained unabated. The Syracusans and their allies had run out an outwork along Epipolae from the city walls, intersecting the fortified lines...his men along by the foot of the southern flank of Epipolae, in a direction towards the interior of the island, till he came immediately below the narrow... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 610 страници
...outwork along Epipolse from the city walls, intersecting the fortified lines of circumvallation whioh Nicias had commenced, but from which he had been driven...his men along by the foot of the southern flank of Epipolae in a direction towards the interior of the island, till he came immediately below the narrow... | |
 | Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1851 - 376 страници
...garrisoned the place would only tend to exhaust the stores of provisions and accelerate its downfall. An easily-repelled attack was first made on the outwork...his men along by the foot of the southern flank of Epipoke, in a direction toward the interior of the island, till he came immediately below the narrow... | |
 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1879 - 434 страници
...operations than with any expectation of Bucceeding in an open assault, with every disadvantage of tho ground to contend against. But, when the darkness...his men along by the foot of the southern flank of Epipolae, in a direction towards the interior of the island, till he came immediately below tho narrow... | |
 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1883 - 436 страници
...garrisoned the place would only tend to exhaust the stores of provisions, and accelerate its downfall. An easily-repelled attack was first made on the outwork...that the army might gain. Thus equipped and prepared, Le led his men along by the foot of the southern flank of Epipolse, li! a direction towards the interior... | |
 | Archibald Wilberforce - 1899 - 536 страници
...garrisoned the place would only tend to exhaust the stores of provisions and accelerate its downfall. An easily-repelled attack was first made on the outwork...his men along by the foot of the southern flank of Epipolae, in a direction toward the interior of the island, till he came immediately below the narrow... | |
 | Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - 1899 - 488 страници
...garrisoned the place would only tend to exhaust the stores of provisions and accelerate its downfall. An easily-repelled attack was first made on the outwork...his men along by the foot of the southern flank of Epipolae, in a direction toward the interior of the island, till he came immediately below the narrow... | |
 | Charles Francis Horne, Rossiter Johnson - 1905 - 452 страници
...would only tend to exhaust the stores of provisions and accelerate its downfall. An easily repelled attack was first made on the outwork in the daytime,...his men along by the foot of the southern flank of Epipolae, in a direction toward the interior of the island, till he came immediately below the narrow... | |
 | Esther Singleton - 1908 - 512 страници
...would only tend to exhaust the stores of provisions and accelerate its downfall. An easily repelled attack was first made on the outwork in the day-time,...his men along by the foot of the southern flank of Epipolae, in the direction toward the interior of the island, till he came immediately below the narrow... | |
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