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... tion - Raised to the colonelcy of the 33d regiment - Sails for Ostend- Campaign in Holland - Attention to his duties - Brief retrospect and anecdotes - Gallant conduct - Covers the retreat - Early discipline and experience - Anecdotes ...
... tion - Raised to the colonelcy of the 33d regiment - Sails for Ostend- Campaign in Holland - Attention to his duties - Brief retrospect and anecdotes - Gallant conduct - Covers the retreat - Early discipline and experience - Anecdotes ...
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... tion ; and thus most celebrated commanders , like professors of the more abstract sciences , are capable of intense thought , and long - continued attention , * added to quickness of obser- vation , and a power of reasoning and ...
... tion ; and thus most celebrated commanders , like professors of the more abstract sciences , are capable of intense thought , and long - continued attention , * added to quickness of obser- vation , and a power of reasoning and ...
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... tion , as to the existing relations between the Honourable Com- pany , its allies , and the native princes . Some portion of the two months which he devoted to these inquiries , was advanta- geously employed , likewise , in examining ...
... tion , as to the existing relations between the Honourable Com- pany , its allies , and the native princes . Some portion of the two months which he devoted to these inquiries , was advanta- geously employed , likewise , in examining ...
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... encouraged their intrigues , but despatched two emissaries to the Isle of France , who were received publicly , and with marked distinc- tion , being sumptuously entertained like an accredited embassy . 38 [ 1797 to LIFE OF THE.
... encouraged their intrigues , but despatched two emissaries to the Isle of France , who were received publicly , and with marked distinc- tion , being sumptuously entertained like an accredited embassy . 38 [ 1797 to LIFE OF THE.
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sir James Edward Alexander. tion , being sumptuously entertained like an accredited embassy . Not satisfied with this , the governor of that island put forth a proclamation , announcing that an embassy had arrived from Tippoo Sultan ...
sir James Edward Alexander. tion , being sumptuously entertained like an accredited embassy . Not satisfied with this , the governor of that island put forth a proclamation , announcing that an embassy had arrived from Tippoo Sultan ...
Términos y frases comunes
action affairs allies appeared arms arrival artillery attack Baird battalions battle battle of Talavera body brigade British army British troops Cadiz camp campaign cavalry character circumstances Ciudad Rodrigo Coimbra Colonel Stevenson Colonel Wellesley command commander-in-chief conduct corps Cuesta defence Despatches detachment directed discipline division Duke duty enemy enemy's engaged England English expedition favour flank force French army frontier Governor-general guns honour horse infantry junta less letter Lisbon Lord Wellington loss Mahratta Major-general Marshal Beresford Massena measures ment military Mondego movements Mysore Napoleon Nizam numbers object observed officers operations opinion Oporto parties passed Peshwah Portugal Portuguese position possession proceeded Rajah rear received regiment retired retreat river Scindiah Sir Arthur Wellesley Sir Harry Burrard Sir Hew Sir John Moore soldiers Soult Spain Spaniards Spanish army spirit success Sultan supplies Tagus Talavera tion victory Viseu whole wounded
Pasajes populares
Página 269 - I hope the People of England will be satisfied! - I hope my Country will do me justice!
Página 312 - I have long been of opinion, that a British army could bear neither success nor failure, and I have had manifest proofs of the truth of this opinion in the first of its branches in the recent conduct of the soldiers of this army. They have plundered the country most terribly, which has given me the greatest concern.
Página 371 - Talavera, (not 100 yards from the place where I was standing,) who were neither attacked, nor threatened with an attack, and who were frightened only by the noise of their own fire : they left their arms and accoutrements on the ground, their officers went with them; and they, and the fugitive cavalry, plundered the baggage of the British army which had been sent to the rear. Many others went whom I did not see.
Página 219 - I think if General Hill's brigade and the advanced guard had moved upon Torres Vedras, as soon as it was certain that the enemy's right had been defeated by our left, and our left had pursued their advantage, the enemy would have been cut off from Torres Vedras, and we should have been at Lisbon before him; if, indeed, any French army had remained in Portugal.
Página 335 - ... wounded soldiers dying in the hospital in this town from want of common assistance and necessaries, which any other country in the world would have given even to its enemies ; and that I can get no assistance of any description from the country. I cannot prevail upon them even to bury the dead carcasses in the neighbourhood, the stench of which will destroy themselves as well as us.
Página 203 - Portuguese troops, which might be easily raised at an early period ; and 20,000 British, including 4000 or 5000 cavalry. This army might operate on the frontiers of Portugal in Spanish Estremadura, and it would serve as the link between the kingdoms of Galicia and Andalusia : it would give Great Britain the preponderance in the conduct of the war in the Peninsula ; and whatever might be the result of the Spanish exertions, Portugal would be saved from the French grasp. You know best whether you could...
Página 243 - It appears to me to be quite impossible that we can go on as we are now constituted ; the Commander-inchief must be changed, and the country and the army naturally turn their eyes to you as their commander.
Página 92 - I had served, placed unlimited confidence in me, and 1 had received from both strong and repeated marks of their 'approbation. Before I quitted the Mysore country, I arranged the plan for taking possession of the ceded districts, which was done without striking a blow ; and another plan for conquering Wynaad and reconquering Malabar, which I am informed has succeeded without loss on our side. But this supercession has ruined all my prospects, founded upon any service that I may have rendered.
Página 79 - Chinnoor, but I was not to be prevailed upon to stop ; and even went so far as to threaten to hang a great man sent to show me the road, who manifested an inclination to show me a good road to a different place.
Página 203 - All that I can say upon that subject is, that whether I am to command the army or not, or am to quit it, I shall do my best to insure its success ; and you may depend upon it that I shall not hurry the operations, or commence them one moment sooner than they ought to be commenced, in order that I may acquire the credit of the success.