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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... sent to the Mediterranean - Sir John Moore withdrawn from thence ; arrives in England ; sent to Sweden - Spencer arrives at Gibraltar - Ceuta , the object of his expedition - Spanish insurrection diverts his attention to Cadiz ; wishes ...
... sent to the Mediterranean - Sir John Moore withdrawn from thence ; arrives in England ; sent to Sweden - Spencer arrives at Gibraltar - Ceuta , the object of his expedition - Spanish insurrection diverts his attention to Cadiz ; wishes ...
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... sent a paper to Murat , declaring that his abdication had been the result of force , wrote also to Napoleon in the same strain ; and this state of affairs being un- expected by the emperor , he employed general Savary to conduct his ...
... sent a paper to Murat , declaring that his abdication had been the result of force , wrote also to Napoleon in the same strain ; and this state of affairs being un- expected by the emperor , he employed general Savary to conduct his ...
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... sent orders to the infant , don Antonio , to resign his office , the presidency of the governing junta , to Murat , who , at the same time , received the title of lieutenant - general of the kingdom : this appointment , and the ...
... sent orders to the infant , don Antonio , to resign his office , the presidency of the governing junta , to Murat , who , at the same time , received the title of lieutenant - general of the kingdom : this appointment , and the ...
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... sent an agent to Cadiz for the express purpose of exciting the populace to commit this odious assassin- ation . This foul stain upon the cause was intensely deep- ened by the perpetration of similar or worse deeds in every part of the ...
... sent an agent to Cadiz for the express purpose of exciting the populace to commit this odious assassin- ation . This foul stain upon the cause was intensely deep- ened by the perpetration of similar or worse deeds in every part of the ...
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... sent orders to throw a bridge across the Ebro , -to press the siege on the left bank , -and to profit of the previous success by raising a breaching battery in the convent of St. Joseph . A bridge was accordingly constructed at St ...
... sent orders to throw a bridge across the Ebro , -to press the siege on the left bank , -and to profit of the previous success by raising a breaching battery in the convent of St. Joseph . A bridge was accordingly constructed at St ...
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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.