History of the Peninsular War ...J. Murray, 1837 |
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Página 165 - Wheatle/s brigade, with three companies of the Coldstream Guards, under Lieutenant-Colonel Jackson, (separated likewise from his battalion in the wood,) and Lieutenant-Colonel Barnard's flank battalion, formed on the left. As soon...
Página 141 - In which he told the inhabitants of Portugal, that he was not come to make war upon them, but with a powerful army of one hundred and ten thousand men to drive the English into the sea. It is to be hoped, that the example of what has occurred in this country will teach the people of this and...
Página 422 - Erskine's and mine were stated with a view of shewing, that Lord Wellesley, so far from having any jealousy to maintain a preponderance in the cabinet, actually left a majority to those who had been accustomed to concur upon most public questions ; and he specified Lord Erskine and myself, that you might see the number submitted for your exclusive nomination was not narrowed by the necessity of advertence to us. The choice of an additional member of the cabinet left to you, must prove how undistinguishable...
Página 415 - ... Peninsula, and that it was neither safe nor honest towards this country or the Allies to continue the present inadequate scheme.- From Lord Liverpool's statement upon this point, it is evident, that since my resignation, it has been found practicable to make some extension of the system in the Peninsula ; but it is still intimated, that my views are more extensive than the resources of the country can enable the Government to reduce to practice. I, however, still entertain the same views and...
Página 403 - ... achieve when animated by a glorious spirit of resistance to a foreign yoke. In the critical situation of the war in the peninsula, I shall be most anxious to avoid any measure...
Página 348 - Romish idolatry, and if the reproaches even of the Spaniards may be credited, there was as little purity of morals as of faith. It is a proverbial saying, that in Valencia, the meat is grass, the grass water, the men women, and the women * nothing. But if the Valencians were, as a censurer has said of them, light equally in mind and body, the cause has been wrongly imputed to their genial and delicious climate; the state of ignorance to which a double despotism had reduced the nation, and the demoralizing...
Página 170 - This he should have been glad to have done, if he could have had sufficient control over himself to have abstained from doing more. ' Mr. Perceval had spoken like the advocate of the Spaniards ; they must be defended at all events, no matter how ! And what was it that was attempted to be defended ? The English army was on the point of being sacrificed — the Spaniards were in sight of them, within twenty minutes' quick march of them ! and what did they?
Página 316 - On the morning of the 25th the enemy sent a reconaissance of cavalry towards the Lower Azava, consisting of about fourteen squadrons of the cavalry of the Imperial Guard. They drove in our posts on the right of the Azava, but having passed...
Página 164 - Barrosa hill were seen returning from it, while the enemy's left wing was rapidly ascending. At the same time, his right wing stood on the plain, on the edge of the wood, within cannonshot.
Página 182 - ... of the cell of the religious, of the hospital which afforded shelter and relief to the poor and infirm, of the temples dedicated to the worship of the Most High $ the innocent blood of so many peaceful citizens of both sexes, and of all ages, with which those heaps of ruins are still tinged ; the insults of every kind heaped upon those whom the Vandals did not deprive of life— insults many times more cruel than death itself ; the universal devastation of the fields, of plantations, of cattle,...