Upon retaking the village, when the Germans discovered what had been done, they retaliated by shooting down and bayoneting all before them, nor in some instances did the women and children escape this cruel fate.
I well remember the comments in the Richmond Examiner (a partisan paper) on the retakingof the line by the division of General Mahone.
The official report of General Mahone of the retaking of the line and the crater was not furnished by him to his superior officer, but was found by his family among his papers after his death, and published a few years ago.
During the day reenforcements arrived and the commanding general was able to hold his own, retaking Soldatovitcha after it had once been lost.
If you aid the fugitive slave to escape from his master, you do not support the latter in retaking his property, merely by paying the legal penalty for not giving such support.
Far from thinking of making his escape through the midst of these three hostile armies, his only idea now was, that of beating Tchitchakof, and retaking Minsk.
The officers who gave us these details added, that ever since that time Wittgenstein seemed to think of nothing but retaking Witepsk, and keeping on the defensive.
Fortunately all their attempts at retaking it came to naught.
As was expected, they tried counter-attacks over and over again with a view to retaking Taku-shan, but each time we repulsed them and reduced them to deeper disappointment.
Their repeated repulse at Kenzan had apparently discouraged further attempts at retaking the hill, but almost every day they attacked some spot on our line with more or less spirit.
The French had succeeded in retaking Lizerne, and had made some progress at Steenstraate and Het Sas; but up to the evening of the 28th no further progress had been made toward the recapture of the original line.
Although the attack did not succeed in retaking St. Julien, it effectually checked the enemy's further advance.
The Emperor's troops have not yet been in the habit of retaking kingdoms, and it is easier to destroy than to restore.
Not only is the cannonading the same repetition, but the game of taking positions, giving them up and retaking them, to lose or abandon them once more, has been the night work of the last week.
There is increasing discouragement among the National Guards, in spite of the retaking of Vanves.
At first sight this might seem a violation of the principles, as Pxd5 is a Pawn move which does not further the development of the pieces while Black, in retaking the Pawn, develops his Queen.
But there are other damages, caused by inevitable necessity, as for instance, the destruction caused by the artillery in retaking a town from the enemy.
Our cavalry, having pushed on and got in the rear of the Confederates, captured twenty-four pieces of artillery, besides retaking what had been lost in the morning.
After these astonishing successes, Napoleon had no difficulty in retaking Naples and Hanover.
The necessity for retaking East Prussia by the Germans was a purely political one.
The next thing in order is the proclamation by the President, for the organization of the army, for the purpose, as he said, of retaking our forts.
This they did, retaking Santa Catharina, together with its governor, his wife, and daughter, as well as the whole garrison of buccaneers.
Almost the first attempt that Morgan had made as a master pirate was the retaking of Saint Catharine's Isle.
His columns were weakened by extending the line, and Massena at once hurled two strong columns on Lonato, retaking it, and throwing the Austrian forces into utter confusion.
Soon after the retakingof Toulon Bonaparte accompanied General Dugommier to Marseilles.
He talked aboutretaking Victoire, about living as a white man, but he recalled the heaps of dead he had seen on that blood-soaked island off the Bad Axe River.
If he succeeded in killing Raoul in a duel, no one would try to stop him from retaking Victoire.
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