With Olotoraca and ten arquebusiers he set out to reconnoiter, for he wished to attack at daybreak.
Now it was that the discipline of the arquebusiers of De Gourgues showed to greatest advantage.
The arquebusiers loaded their pieces and at an order from their captains, marched down the beach to the end of the sand-spit opposite the Spaniards, where they grounded their arms and waited.
There was no chance of escape, for arquebusiers to the number of ten brought up the rear, and De Baçan had given them orders to shoot us in the back did we give the slightest sign or movement of a nature suspicious.
The arquebusiers followed, while De Brésac and I with our armed seamen brought up the rear.
Then the bowmen and arquebusiers dug into the sand, making trenches in which they might find protection from arrows and small pieces.
The morions of our arquebusiers lined the bulwarks, for the company thought these two men were going most surely to their death.
Around him in a half-moon was a crowd of the French bowmen and arquebusiers holding their sides and laughing at his plight.
Most of the soldiers had fled even before the women, but we saw forty or fifty Spanish arquebusiers formed in the square by the corps-de-garde for a last resistance.
To add to the discomforts, a drenching rain fell upon us and the arquebusiers had much ado to keep their gun-matches alight.
The general sent a small boat with six arquebusiers to find out what they were doing, but at their approach, a number of the Japanese funeas attacked them with the purpose of capturing them.
The auditor immediately threw on board the enemy the infantry colors with thirty arquebusiers and a few volunteers and sailors, who captured the forecastle, after-cabin, and the colors of the vessel.
At this juncture the arquebusiers who were with the Judge Matienzo began to press nearer to hear what was said, notwithstanding that they were called to and told to stop.
When Pizarro understood this attitude of some of the citizens, he said that he did not wish to be Procurator of such an ungrateful city, and he did not desist from going about accompanied by arquebusiers and musketeers.
A captain of arquebusiers fled, and another he threatened to stab.
Afterwards he was appointed to the post of Camp Master, the captaincy of arquebusiers being given to Gonzalo Diaz de Pineda, a native of the Montaña[52].
Diego Maldonado being in his house, Captain Cermeño with a company of arquebusierscame to take him to the house of Gonzalo Pizarro who was very angry because Maldonado would not sign.
The captain of arquebusiers was Diego de Urbina, a Biscayan.
Almendras proceeded to carry out the instructions of Gonzalo Pizarro, with the help of the arquebusiers who had been left to guard the artillery.
The arquebusiers outside fired some shots to give those inside to understand what would happen to them if they did not obey.
After what happened which I have described in the last chapter, the Captain Francisco de Almendras and his arquebusiers returned a day’s journey towards Guamanga.
A company of halberdiers and arquebusiers had surrounded it and already an officer was advancing towards the gangway.
Here be arquebusiers by the score come from Whitehall--" "Where is Sainton?
The fat knave was backed by too many arquebusiers to assault him by daylight, so I played fox, and rode off in seeming temper.
Look at Van der Helst's fine company of arquebusierson one of the side walls; look at Franz Hals' company of arquebusiers on the other; then look at Rembrandt again.
It is impossible also to remain long in the great Hals' room of the Museum without meditating a little upon the difference between these arquebusiers and the Dutch of the present day.
After a while it becomes evident that Rembrandt was the only man who ought to have painted arquebusiersat all.
Captain Franz Banning Cocq's arquebusiers are leaving their Doelen in broad day; the centralisation of sunlight from a high window led to the mistake, and nothing now will ever change the title.
Under guard of arquebusiers a procession was formed of officials and dignitaries, who on reaching the market-place bestowed themselves in the overlooking windows.
The gentlemen who still adhered to him had brought their retainers to the city; propagandism had been active and a majority of the arquebusiers declared themselves ready to die in defence of the fueros.
The lieutenant of the watch stood squarely before him with a forbidding air, while a file of arquebusiers lounged in the archway.
Three arquebusiers mounted it and poured a deadly fire upon the defenders on the gallery.
Champlain, however, sent a detachment of arquebusiersto receive it.
He wished to attack at daybreak, and with ten arquebusiers and his Indian guide he set out to reconnoitre.
Three arquebusiers mounted to the top, where, themselves well sheltered, they opened a raking fire along the galleries, now thronged with wild and naked defenders.
On the morning of the seventeenth, five hundred arquebusiers and pikemen were drawn up before the camp.
On board he placed a hundred arquebusiersand eighty sailors, prepared to fight on land, if need were.
Again and again the royalists bore down in overwhelming numbers; their heavy guns ploughed lanes through our ranks; the arquebusiers pelted us with bullets unceasingly; the horsemen charged with desperate fury.
But the arquebusiers clung firmly to their post, and presently young Condé, sweeping round unexpectedly at the head of his regiment, charged and broke the hostile infantry.
The marshal began the attack with a cavalry charge, but, as the horsemen galloped forward, a body of arquebusiers posted in a ditch discharged such a stinging fire that our opponents wheeled round and rode hurriedly back to shelter.
These are cut up by moats and protected by walls, where, amid the labyrinth of hardly distinguishable paths across the salt marshes, we find many available places to hide in ambush, and our arquebusiers easily decimate the Catholics.
I was rushing towards the residence of the Admiral when I saw a battalion of Arquebusiers of the Guard turn into Bethisy Street.
Subsequently,' the inn-keeper proceeded to say, 'the regiment of the Arquebusiers of the Guard entered Paris.
The taking of a list of the Huguenots in town, the arrival of a whole regiment of Arquebusiers of the Guard, and finally the conveying of such large stores of arms to the City Hall, seem to me to foreshadow some plot against the Protestants.
Do not imagine that our tyrants Catherine De Medici and Charles IX are defended mainly by the arquebusiers of their bodyguards, their light mounted horse and their footmen in arms!
Two regiments of mounted arquebusiers under the command of Count Neroweg of Plouernel, the colonel's brother, made a charge upon us with the object of isolating us from the German troopers.
Finally, the companies of arquebusiers were massed upon the breach, which was defended by heaped-up beams and gabions that the Rochelois women assisted in bringing together.
Others rolled barrels of sand, which after having served for protection to the arquebusiers on the ramparts, were likewise to be rolled down the steep declivity which the enemy had to climb.
One mantelet was so constructed that the water could not extinguish the fire, which might be set to the fort, under cover of the arquebusierswho were doing their duty on the cavalier.
I ordered three arquebusiers to mount upon it, who were well protected from the arrows and stones that could be shot or hurled at them.
Not only did he force the arquebusiers to retire in disorder, causing great havoc among them, but he slaughtered most of the engineers engaged on the traverse.
Fresh engineers supplied the places of those who had perished, and the arquebusiers returned to their post.
After running his eye along the ramparts, crowded with arquebusiers and pikemen, Pomperant once more turned his gaze towards the little chapel on the hillside.
Instantly dismounting, he ordered a third of the arquebusiers to follow him, and springing on board the most exposed of the galleys, prepared for its defence.
Pizarro divided his cavalry into three small squadrons, left all his infantry in one body, hid his arquebusiers on the road by which the inca must pass, and kept twenty of his most determined companions near himself.
But the goodly aim of the arquebusiers was so effective that the Chinese did not leave their shelter, and the Spaniards were thus enabled to board their ships and take possession of them.
The arquebusiers immediately hastened to their posts with their medicine, [28] and prevented the Moros from discharging another volley of arrows, which ceased at their coming.
Their harvests were garnered into walled towns; their army included 2,000 arquebusiers besides the Huguenot gentry and they were well prepared for further war.
Nearly all the captains of his enemy’s two regiments and 500 arquebusiers were killed and as many more taken prisoner.
The duke’s cavalry was composed of five companies of Spanish light horse and three Italian and two Albanian companies and two companies of Spanish arquebusiers on horseback, in all 1,200 horses.
This corps of infantry formed the centre of his line, flanked by the arquebusiers in two nearly equal divisions, while his cavalry were also disposed in two bodies on the right and left wings.
On the day appointed, a strong corps of arquebusiers was drawn up in the plaza.
His arquebusiers were less numerous, not exceeding a hundred and fifty, indifferently provided with ammunition.
In the centre was his excellent artillery, covered by his arquebusiers and spearmen; while his cavalry rode on the flanks.
He mustered only three arquebusiers in his whole company, and a few crossbow-men, altogether not exceeding twenty.
In the centre he placed his infantry, consisting of arquebusiers and pikemen, constituting the battle, as it was called.
These battalions were protected by squadrons of horse on the wings and in the rear, while reserves both of horse and arquebusiers were stationed to act as occasion might require.
Ten or a dozen of the arquebusiers followed in the same direction, and succeeded in placing themselves under the protection of the advanced guard of the royalists.
A small body of arquebusiers was stationed in the advance to begin the fight.
In building his home, Rubens encroached a little on land owned by the Company of Arquebusiers of Antwerp.
Send for me from here, from Niort, all the arquebusiers you can muster and cut the regiment to pieces and so you will have the truce broken and rescinded without any further trouble.
Upon each step was placed one of the arquebusiers of the Cardinal's guard, holding a torch in one hand and a long carbine in the other.
Preceding his vessel, a boat sounded the passages, and another boat followed, filled with arquebusiers and officers to command them.
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