Famous Quotes | An Austrian army, awfully...

An Austrian army, awfully array’d,
Boldly by battery besiege Belgrade;
Cossack commanders cannonading come,
Deal devastation’s dire destructive doom;
- Alaric Alexander Watts
Attribution: Alaric Alexander Watts (1797–1864), British poet. An Austrian Army (l. 1–4). . . Faber Book of Comic Verse, The. Michael Roberts and Janet Adam Smith, eds. (Rev. ed., 1974; paperback 1978) Faber and Faber attributed to Watts.

Categories: Alliteration, Battles, War

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