...antagonist, Marshal Contades himself. " I never thought to see a single line of infantry," he wrote, " break through three lines of cavalry, ranked in order of battle, and tumble them to MINDEN. 23 ruin." Mind en was a great day for the British infantry, and hardly less so for their artillery,...

...fire that in an hour's time the French were broken. Contades, the French general, said, " I have seen what I never thought to be possible — a single line...ranked in order of battle, and tumble them to ruin." Unluckily the misconduct of one Englishman, Lord George Sackville, who commanded the horse and refused...

...their flank, and rolled back charge after charge with volleys of musketry. In an hour the French centre was utterly broken. "I have seen," said Contades,...tumble them to ruin!" Nothing but the refusal of Lord George Sackville to complete the victory by a charge of the horse which he headed saved the French...

...French centre was broken, and Marshal Contades said he had seen what he thought to be impossible, " a single line of infantry break through three lines...ranked in order of battle, and tumble them to ruin !" Dr. Moore remained a short time at several of the principal towns in Germany, and his son studied...

...army mistook the command and charged 10,000 French cavalry, hopelessly breaking the French centre. "I have seen," said Contades, "what I never thought...ranked in order of battle, and tumble them to ruin." Gone, in that fortunate blundering by the English, was the French hope of the conquest of Hanover....

...Minden, where the French General Contades cried in the anguish of his spirit : "I never thought to see a single line of infantry break through three lines...cavalry ranked in order of battle, and tumble them to pieces." Its part, when it came, was to be in one of those futile sporadic attacks on the coast of...

...Minden in 1759, at which a spectacle was seen which the French commander declared afterwards he had never thought to be possible — 'a single line of infantry break through three lines of cavalry and tumble them to ruin'. Sir John Fortescue describes this particular performance as the most astonishing...

...charge on the Hanoverian heavy cavalry by Fit/.james' regrouped 7 hare seen what I never thought to he possible - a single line of infantry break through three lines of cavalry ranked in battle order and tumble them, to ruin. ' — DE CO\TAGES Brigade clu Roi. but de Contades' command...

...were as brave as ever. A French officer said that he had seen there what he would never have believed to be possible — " a single line of infantry break through three lines of cavalry and tumble them to ruin." The British were not commanded this time by the Duke of Cumberland, and they...