 | Edward Deering Mansfield - 1862 - 660 էջ
...ground was " covered with rocks, large and small, prickly pear, or cactus, intersected by ditches rilled with water, and lined with maguey plant, itself imperviable...concealed the enemy's skirmishers, while it impeded our passage."1 General Scott took position on an eminence in front of Contreras, at 4 p. M. of the 19th,... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1862 - 830 էջ
...cactus; intersected by ditches rilled 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... | |
 | Charles Richard Tuttle - 1874 - 638 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... | |
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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,... 
