History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France, from the Year 1807 to the Year 1814John Murray, 1828 - 2 páginas |
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... body , its timidity , inactivity , and folly , refuses to name a generalissimo - Foreign relations Mr. Canning leaves Mr. Stuart without any instructions for three months - Mr . Frere appointed envoy extraordinary , & c . CHAPTER III ...
... body , its timidity , inactivity , and folly , refuses to name a generalissimo - Foreign relations Mr. Canning leaves Mr. Stuart without any instructions for three months - Mr . Frere appointed envoy extraordinary , & c . CHAPTER III ...
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... bodies which long practice had given to the French ; but the individual soldier was ( and is still ) most falsely stigmatized as deficient in intel- ligence and activity , the officers ridiculed , and the idea that a British could cope ...
... bodies which long practice had given to the French ; but the individual soldier was ( and is still ) most falsely stigmatized as deficient in intel- ligence and activity , the officers ridiculed , and the idea that a British could cope ...
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... Spain , by enabling him to mask his views , and intro- duce large bodies of men into that country without creating much suspicion of his real intention ; it does I. 1807 . BOOK not follow , as some authors PENINSULAR WAR . 15.
... Spain , by enabling him to mask his views , and intro- duce large bodies of men into that country without creating much suspicion of his real intention ; it does I. 1807 . BOOK not follow , as some authors PENINSULAR WAR . 15.
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... . Small di- Napoleon . visions under different pretexts continually reinforced Appendix , No. 2. these two bodies , and through the Eastern Pyrenees Notes of II . twelve thousand men , commanded by general Du- 18 HISTORY OF THE.
... . Small di- Napoleon . visions under different pretexts continually reinforced Appendix , No. 2. these two bodies , and through the Eastern Pyrenees Notes of II . twelve thousand men , commanded by general Du- 18 HISTORY OF THE.
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... body of cavalry , Dupont at the same time deviating from the road to Portugal , crossed the Duero and occupied Segovia , the Escurial , and Aranjuez . Ferdinand arrived at Madrid on the 24th , but was not recognised by Murat as king ...
... body of cavalry , Dupont at the same time deviating from the road to Portugal , crossed the Duero and occupied Segovia , the Escurial , and Aranjuez . Ferdinand arrived at Madrid on the 24th , but was not recognised by Murat as king ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Abrantes affairs Alemtejo Andalusia Andujar Appendix arms arrived artillery Astorga Asturias attack Barcelona battle Baylen Bayonne Benevente Bessieres Bilbao Blake BOOK brigade Burgos Cadiz campaign capital Castaños Castille Catalonia cavalry centre CHAP colonel columns command commenced convention corps Coruña Cuesta danger defeat defence despatch detachment division duke Dupont Ebro emperor enemy England English army favourable flank force France French army Gallicia garrison guard guns hundred insurgents insurrection John Moore's Junot junta king latter Leon Lisbon Logroña Loison Madrid marshal ment miles military Moncey Morla movement Napoleon occupied officers operations Oporto orders Palafox passed patriots Peninsula Portugal Portuguese position provinces rear regiments reinforcements retired retreat Reynosa river road sent Seville side sir Arthur Wellesley sir Hew Dalrymple sir John Moore soldiers somatenes Spain Spaniards Spanish armies Tagus Thiebault thousand infantry tion Torres Vedras town troops Tudela Valencia Zaragoza
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Página 498 - I hope the people of England will be satisfied!" "I hope my country will do me justice!
Página 498 - ... decisive vigour of his actions. He maintained the right with a vehemence bordering upon fierceness, and every important transaction in which he was engaged increased his 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 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...
Página xli - French army; and all those who have continued in the exercise of their employments, or who have accepted situations under the French government, are placed under the protection of the British commanders ; they shall sustain no injury in their persons or property, it not having been at their option to be obedient or not to the French government: they are also at liberty to avail themselves of the stipulations of the 16th Article.
Página 493 - Elvina, was struck on the left breast by a cannon shot ; the shock threw him from his horse with violence, but he rose again in a sitting posture, his countenance unchanged, and his steadfast eye still fixed upon the regiments engaged in his front, no sigh betraying a sensation of pain. In a few moments, when he was satisfied that the troops were gaining ground, his countenance brightened, and he suffered...
Página xxxix - The French army shall carry with it all its equipments, and all that is comprehended under the name of property of the army...
Página 1 - the wars of France were essentially defensive; for the bloody contest that wasted the Continent so many years, was not a struggle for preeminence between ambitious powers — not a dispute for some accession of territory — nor for the political ascendancy of one or other nation — but a deadly conflict to determine whether aristocracy or democracy should predominate — whether equality or PRIVILEGE should henceforth be the principle of European governments.
Página 493 - 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.
Página 449 - I should feel unwilling to excite, but this much I must say, that if the British army had been sent abroad for the express purpose of doing the utmost possible mischief to the Spanish ^ cause, with the single exception of not firing a shot against their troops, they would, according to the measures now announced as about to be pursued, have completely fulfilled their purpose.
Página xl - 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 443 - I certainly at first did feel, and expressed much indignation at a person like him, being made the channel of a communication of that sort from you to me. Those feelings are at an end ; and I dare say they never will be excited towards you again.