 | 1847 - 640 էջ
...afterward found to be sixteen and eight inch howitzers. The ground was the worst possible for artillery, covered with rocks large and small, prickly pear and...skirmishers, while it impeded our own passage. The artillerj advanced but slowly, under a most tremendous fire, which greatly injured it before it could... | |
 | John Frost - 1848 - 376 էջ
...The ground was the worst possible for artillery, covered with rocks large and small, prickly pears and cactus, intersected by ditches filled with water...relative position, as well as the column. About four the battery got in position under a most murderous fire of grape, canister, and round shot. Here the... | |
 | 1850 - 592 էջ
...small, prickly-pear and cactus, intersected by ditches filled with water and lined with maguey-plant, itself imperviable to cavalry, and with patches of...range, and the thickness of the undergrowth caused 40 MAJOR-GENERAL WINFIELD SCOTT. the skirmishers thrown forward to lose their relative position, as... | |
 | Edward Deering Mansfield - 1851 - 398 էջ
...cactus ; intersected by ditches filled with water, and lined with maguey plant, itself imperriable to cavalry , and with patches of corn, which concealed the enemy's skirmishers while it impeded our passage. The artillery advanced but slowly, under a most murderous fire of grape, canister, and round... | |
 | Edward Deering Mansfield - 1852 - 582 էջ
...the spot says, that the ground was " covered with rocks, large and small, prickly pear, or caclus, intersected by ditches filled with water, and lined...concealed the enemy's skirmishers, while it impeded our passage."1 General Scott took position on an eminence in front of Contreras, at 4 PM of the 19th, and... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1854 - 780 էջ
...cactua; intersected by ditches filled with water, and lined with maguey plant, itself impei viable to cavalry ; and with patches of corn, which concealed the enemy's skirmishers while it impeded our passage. The artillery advanced but slow ly under a most murderous fire of grape, canister, and round... | |
 | Henry William Harrison - 1858 - 462 էջ
...small, prickly pear and cactus, intersected by ditches filled with water and lined with maguey-plant, itself imperviable to cavalry, and with patches of...relative position as well as the column. About four the battery got in position, under a most murderous fire of grape, canister, and round-shot. Here the... | |
 | Mexican war - 1860 - 566 էջ
...small, prickly-pear and cactus, intersected by ditches filled with water and lined with maguey-plant, itself imperviable to cavalry, and with patches of...range, and the thickness of the undergrowth caused 4* the skiimisLers thrown forward to lose their relative position, as well as the column. About four,... | |
 | Edward Deering Mansfield - 1860 - 396 էջ
...officer, " was the worst possible for artillery ; covered with rocks, large and small, prickly-pear and cactus ; intersected by ditches filled with water,...concealed the enemy's skirmishers while it impeded our passage. The artillery advanced but slowly, under a most murderous fire of grape, canister, and round... | |
 | 1860 - 557 էջ
...small, prickly-pear and cactus, intersected by ditches filled with water and lined with maguey-plant, itself imperviable to cavalry, and with patches of...impeded our own passage. The artillery advanced but slowiy under a most tremendous fire, which greatly injured it before it could be got in range, and... | |
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... itself imperviable to cavalry, and with patches of corn which concealed the enemy's skirmishers, while it impeded our own passage. The artillery advanced but slowly under a most tremendous fire, which greatly injured it before it could be got in range,... 
