History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France: From the Year 1807 to the Year 1814, 1. kötetCarey and Hart, 1842 - 504 oldal |
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Abrantes affairs Alemtejo Almeida Andalusia Appendix arms arrived artillery Astorga Asturias attack Barcelona battalions battle Blake bridge brigade British army Burgos Cadiz Castaños Catalonia cavalry centre Colonel columns command communication convention corps Coruña Cuesta defeat defence detachment directed division Duero Duhesme Duke Ebro emperor enemy flank force France French army Frere Gallicia garrison Général Dupont guard guns hommes hundred insurrection John Moore's Junot junta l'armée l'ennemi latter Lisbon Logroño Loison Madrid Maréchal Bessières Marshal military Minho Moncey movement Napoleon occupied officers operations Oporto orders Palafox passed Peninsula Portugal Portuguese position provinces re-enforced rear Reding regency regiments retired retreat river road Romana Salamanca Saragosse sent Seville side Sierra Sir Arthur Wellesley Sir Hew Dalrymple Sir John Cradock Sir John Moore soldiers Soult Spain Spaniards Spanish armies Tagus thousand infantry tion town troops Tudela Valencia Valladolid victory Villa Franca Zaragoza
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262. oldal - ... 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.
478. oldal - The French army shall carry with it all its equipments, and all that is comprehended under the name of property of the army...
262. oldal - I hope the People of England will be satisfied! - I hope my Country will do me justice!
277. oldal - 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.
479. oldal - 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.
15. oldal - ... 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...
299. oldal - 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...
260. oldal - 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.
299. oldal - 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.
258. oldal - 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.