History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France: From the Year 1807 to the Year 1814, Band 6T. & W. Boone, 1840 |
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Adour Alduides allies Arcangues artillery assailed assault attack Bastan battalions batteries battle battle of Vittoria Bayonne besiegers Bidassoa blockade BOOK breach bridge brigade British Catalonia cavalry CHAP Chofre Clauzel colonel columns command Copons corps D'Erlon defence detachment Ebro Echallar enemy enemy's English fight fire flank force fortress fourth division France front garrison guns heights Hill horn-work hundred infantry Irun Jean Pied July light division lord Wellington lord William lord William Bentinck Maransin Maya Meanwhile menaced miles military Morillo mountain movement Murray Nive numbers officers operations Pampeluna pass Pied de Port Pierre Soult Portuguese position rear regiment Reille Reille's reinforced retreat Rhune ridge river road San Marcial San Sebastian Sauroren seventh division side siege sixth division skirmishers soldiers Soult Spain Spaniards Spanish Suchet Taragona thousand tion Tortoza troops Urumea Val Carlos Valencia valley of Lanz village Villefranque wounded XXII Zubiri
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Seite 217 - ... to the successful troops and always paid without delay. This money might be taken as ransom from enemies, but if the inhabitants are friends, or too poor, government should furnish the amount. With such regulations the storming of towns would not produce more military disorders than the gaining of battles in the field.
Seite 216 - ... with the sword and reaping his harvest of death when the enemy was in flight, became habituated to the act of slaying. The modern soldier seldom uses his bayonet, sees not his peculiar victim fall, and exults not over mangled limbs as proofs of personal prowess. Hence preserving his original feelings, his natural abhorrence of murder and crimes of violence, he differs not from other men unless often engaged in the assault of towns, where rapacity, lust, and inebriety, unchecked by the restraints...
Seite 685 - Orthes, the crowning battle of Toulouse ! To say that he committed faults is only to say that he made war; to deny him the qualities of a great commander is to rail against the clear mid-day sun for want of light. How few of his combinations failed. How many battles he fought, victorious in all ! Iron hardihood of body, a quick and sure vision, a grasping mind, untiring power of thought, and the habit of laborious minute investigation and arrangement ; all these qualities he possessed, and with them...
Seite lxiv - 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.
Seite 158 - Confusion impossible to describe followed, the wounded were thrown down in the rush and trampled upon, the cavalry drew their swords and endeavoured to charge up the pass of Echallar, but the infantry beat them back, and several, horses and all, were precipitated into the river...
Seite 683 - Wellington's caution, springing from that source, has led friends and foes alike into wrong conclusions as to his system of war; the French call it want of enterprise, timidity; the English have denominated it the Fabian system. These are mere phrases. His system was the same as that of all great generals. He held his army in hand, keeping it with unmitigated labour always in a fit state to march or to fight, and acted indifferently as occasion offered on the offensive or defensive, displaying in...
Seite 215 - The modern soldier is not necessarily the stern bloody-handed man the ancient soldier was, there is as much difference between them as between the sportsman and the butcher ; the ancient warrior, fighting with the sword and reaping his harvest of death when the enemy was in flight, became habituated to the act of slaying- The modern soldier seldom uses his bayonet, sees not his peculiar victim fall, and exults not over mangled limbs as proofs of personal prowess.
Seite 431 - Spanish nation with you, you will bring the Government to their senses, and you will put an end at once to all the petty cabals and counteraction existing at the present moment, and you will not be under the necessity of bringing matters to extremities. If you take any other than a decided line, and one which, in its consequences, will involve them iu ruin, you may depend upon it you will gain nothing, and will only make matters worse.
Seite 442 - If the effort should fail, the enemy will, by an amnesty, be deprived of the principal means now in his hands of oppressing the country in which his armies will be stationed. He will see clearly that he can place no reliance on any partisans in Spain; and he will not have even a pretence for supposing that the country is divided in opinion. If the effort...