 | John Relly Beard - 1853 - عدد الصفحات: 384
...underwent the privations of a siege. " For more than six months," wrote Laveaux, under date May 24th, " we have been reduced to six ounces of bread a day, officers as well as men ; but from the 13th of this month, we have none whatever, the sick only excepted. If we had powder, we should have been... | |
 | John Relly Beard - 1853 - عدد الصفحات: 374
...underwent the privations of a siege. " For more than six months," wrote Laveaux, under date May 24th, " we have been reduced to six ounces of bread a day, officers as well as men ; but from the 1 3th of thia month, we have none whatever, the sick only excepted. If we had powder, we should have... | |
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Nicholas, commanded all the approaches to the city by sea. The Spaniards, masters of nearly all the north, pressed Portde-Paix by land, and cut off the supplies of provisions, so that the place underwent the privations of a siege. 