History of the War in the Peninsula: And in the South of France, from the Year 1807 to the Year 1814, Band 5T. and W. Boone, 1851 |
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Alcoy Alduides allies Aragon artillery assailed assault attack battalions batteries battle battle of Vitoria Bayonne besiegers Bidassoa Bilbao bridge brigade British Burgos Castalla Catalonia cavalry centre Clausel columns command convoy Copons D'Erlon defence defile detachment Duero Ebro Echallar Elio enemy English entrenched Esla fight fire flank force fortresses France French army front Gallicians garrison Guipuscoa guns heights Hill horn-work hundred infantry Irun Jean Pied Lanz light division Longa lord William lord William Bentinck Madrid Maransin Maya menaced miles military mountain movement Murray Napoleon night Nive numbers operations orders Pampeluna Parque Parque's partidas pass Pied de Port Portugal Portuguese position reached rear regiment Reille Reille's reinforced retreat Rhune ridge river road Roncevalles San Sebastian seventh division side siege sixth division skirmishers soldiers Soult Spain Spaniards Spanish Suchet Taragona thousand Tormes Tortoza troops Urumea Val Carlos Valencia valley village Vitoria Wellington Zadora Zaragoza
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Seite 422 - Je suis avec le plus profond respect, « Sire, « de Votre Majesté « Le très humble et très obéissant serviteur « et fidèle ministre.
Seite 125 - ... generals and subordinate officers alike were reduced to the clothes on their backs, and most of them were barefooted.
Seite 276 - Many officers exerted themselves to preserve order : many men were well-conducted, but the rapine and violence commenced by villains soon spread, the camp-followers crowded into the place, and the disorder continued, until the flames following the steps of the plunderer put an end to his ferocity by destroying the whole town.
Seite 382 - Lloyd at the head of the ninety-fourth, and it was leading that regiment, he fell. In him, also, were combined mental and bodily powers of no ordinary kind. Graceful symmetry, herculean strength, and a countenance frank and majestic, gave the true index of his nature; for his capacity was great and commanding, and his military knowledge extensive, both from experience and study. Of his mirth and wit, well known in the army, it...
Seite 122 - Ali and Armentia, made their muskets flash like lightning, while more than eighty pieces of artillery, massed together, pealed with such a horrid uproar, that the hills laboured and shook, and streamed with fire and smoke, amidst which the dark figures of the French gunners were seen, bounding with a frantic energy.
Seite 224 - Yonder is <a great commander, but he is a cautious one, and will delay his attack to ascertain the cause of these...
Seite 275 - The horn-work and the land front below the curtain, and the loop-holed wall behind the great breach were all abandoned ; the light division soldiers who had already established themselves in the ruins on the French left, immediately penetrated to the streets, and at the same moment the Portuguese at the small breach, mixed with British who had wandered to that point seeking for an entrance, burst in on their side.
Seite 125 - Jourdan's baton of command, a stand of colours, one hundred and forty-three brass pieces, two-thirds of which had been used in the fight, all the pares and depots from Madrid, Valladolid, and Burgos, carriages, ammunition, treasure, everything fell into the hands of the victors.
Seite 272 - The forlorn hope had already passed beyond the play of the mine, and now speeded along the strand amidst a shower of grape and shells, the leader lieutenant Macguire of the fourth regiment, conspicuous from his long white plume his fine figure and his swiftness...