History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France: From the Year 1807 to the Year 1814, Volumen1

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Página 262 - ... reputation for talent, and confirmed his character as a stern enemy to vice, a steadfast friend to merit, a just and faithful servant of his country. The honest, loved him, the dishonest CHAP. feared him; for while he lived he did not shun, but scorned and spurned the base, and, with characteristic propriety, they spurned at him when he was dead.
Página 478 - The French army shall carry with it all its equipments, and all that is comprehended under the name of property of the army...
Página 262 - I hope the People of England will be satisfied! - I hope my Country will do me justice!
Página 277 - In sir John Moore's campaign,' said the duke of Wellington, ' I can see but one error ; when he advanced to Sahagun he should have considered it as a movement of retreat, and sent officers to the rear to mark and prepare the halting-places for every brigade.
Página 479 - France shall have disembarked it in the harbours specified, or in any other of the ports of France, to which stress of weather may force them, every facility shall be given them to return to England without delay ; and security against capture, until their arrival in a friendly port. 'Art.
Página 15 - ... reposed in his own fortune, unrivalled talents, and vast power, made him disregard the consequences, while the cravings of his military and political system, the danger to be apprehended from the vicinity of a Bourbon dynasty, and above all the...
Página 299 - The suburb, the greatest part of the walls and one-fourth of the houses were in the hands of the French ; sixteen thousand shells thrown during the bombardment, and the explosion of forty-five thousand pounds of powder in the mines, had shaken the city to its foundations ; and the bones of more than...
Página 260 - Hardinge, a staff officer, who was near, attempted to take it off, but the dying man stopped him, saying, "It is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me ;" and in that manner, so becoming to a soldier, Moore was borne from the fight.
Página 299 - February the daily deaths were from four to five hundred ; the living were unable to bury the dead ; and thousands of carcasses, scattered about the streets and court-yards, or piled in heaps at the doors of the churches, were left to dissolve in their own corruption, or to be licked up by the flames of the burning houses as the defence became contracted.
Página 258 - The late arrival of the transports, the increasing force of the enemy, and the disadvantageous nature of the ground had greatly augmented the difficulty and danger of the embarkation, and several general officers now proposed to the Commander-in-chief, that he should negotiate for leave to retire to his ships upon terms.

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