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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... cavalry loose upon Castile and Leon - Marshals Lasnes and Ney directed against Castaños - Folly of the central junta - General St. Juan occupies the pass of the Somosierra - Folly of the generals on the Ebro- Battle of Tudela CHAPTER II ...
... cavalry loose upon Castile and Leon - Marshals Lasnes and Ney directed against Castaños - Folly of the central junta - General St. Juan occupies the pass of the Somosierra - Folly of the generals on the Ebro- Battle of Tudela CHAPTER II ...
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... cavalry . Spain 24,000 infantry , 30 guns , and 3,000 cavalry . The French contingent to be joined at Alcantara by the Spanish cavalry , artillery , and one - third of the infantry , and from thence to march at once to Lisbon . Of the ...
... cavalry . Spain 24,000 infantry , 30 guns , and 3,000 cavalry . The French contingent to be joined at Alcantara by the Spanish cavalry , artillery , and one - third of the infantry , and from thence to march at once to Lisbon . Of the ...
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... cavalry came to the assistance of their countrymen by the gate of Alcala ; while general Lanfranc , with a column of three thousand infantry , descending from the heights on the north - west quarter , entered the Calle Ancha de Bernardo ...
... cavalry came to the assistance of their countrymen by the gate of Alcala ; while general Lanfranc , with a column of three thousand infantry , descending from the heights on the north - west quarter , entered the Calle Ancha de Bernardo ...
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... cavalry in the morning . In the first moment of irritation , Murat ordered all the prisoners to be tried by a military commission , which condemned them to death ; but the munici- pality interfered , and represented to that prince the ...
... cavalry in the morning . In the first moment of irritation , Murat ordered all the prisoners to be tried by a military commission , which condemned them to death ; but the munici- pality interfered , and represented to that prince the ...
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... cavalry , passed the Pisuerga , fell upon the Spaniards at Torquemada on the 7th , broke them , and pursuing with a merciless sword , burnt that town , and entered Palencia on the 8th . Meanwhile Frere defeated the Spanish force at ...
... cavalry , passed the Pisuerga , fell upon the Spaniards at Torquemada on the 7th , broke them , and pursuing with a merciless sword , burnt that town , and entered Palencia on the 8th . Meanwhile Frere defeated the Spanish force at ...
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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
Pasajes populares
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.