History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France, from the Year 1807 to the Year 1814, Band 3John Murray, 1833 |
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Abrantes Albuera Albuquerque Alemtejo allies Almeida Andalusia Aragon Areizaga arms army arrived artillery attack Augereau Badajos Ballasteros battalions batteries battle besieged Blake BOOK bridge brigade British Cadiz Campo Mayor Catalonia cavalry centre CHAP Ciudad Rodrigo colonel column command commenced convoy defeated defence detachment dragoons Ebro eight enemy enemy's English Estremadura fifth corps fire flank force French front frontier garrison Gerona Guadiana guard guns hills hundred infantry Junta latter Lerida light division Lisbon lord Wellington Mancha marshal Beresford Massena Meanwhile ment Mequinenza miles military Mondego Morena Mortier mountains movement O'Donnel Ocaña occupied Olivenza operations orders passed PENINSULAR WAR Portugal Portuguese position province reached rear Regency regiment reinforced retired retreat Reynier river road sent Seville side siege Sierra sixth corps skirmishers soldiers Soult Spain Spaniards Spanish squadrons Suchet Tagus Taragona thousand tion town troops Valencia valley Verdier Villa whole Zaragoza
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 547 - In vain did Soult with voice and gesture animate his Frenchmen, in vain did the hardiest veterans break from the crowded columns and sacrifice their lives to gain time for the mass to open out on such a fair field ; in vain did the mass itself bear up, and, fiercely striving, fire...
Seite 547 - There the French reserve, mixing with the struggling multitude, endeavoured to sustain the fight, but the effort only increased the irremediable confusion ; the mighty mass gave way, and like a loosened cliff went headlong down the steep. The rain flowed after in streams discoloured with blood, and fifteen hundred unwounded men, the remnant of six thousand unconquerable British soldiers, stood triumphant on the fatal hill.
Seite 547 - No sudden burst of undisciplined valour, no nervous enthusiasm weakened the stability of their order, their flashing eyes were bent on the dark columns in their front, their measured tread shook the ground, their dreadful volleys swept away the head of every formation, their deafening shouts overpowered the dissonant cries that broke from all parts of the tumultuous crowd, as slowly and with a horrid carnage it was pushed by the incessant vigour of the attack to the farthest edge of the hill.
Seite 599 - But it appears that the government have lately discovered that we are all wrong; they have become impatient for the defeat of the enemy, and, in imitation of the central junta, call out for a battle and early success.
Seite 612 - Regent to remove me from the command of their armies. This would be a measure consistent with his former conduct in this contest, under the circumstances of my having unfortunately fallen in his opinion; but this measure is entirely distinct from...
Seite 362 - For across the ravine on the left, a loose stone wall, sixteen feet thick and forty feet high, was raised ; and across the great valley of Aruda, a double line of abattis was drawn ; not composed, as is usual, of the limbs of trees, but of full-grown oaks and...
Seite 528 - The officers of the army may depend upon it that the enemy to whom they are opposed are not less prudent than they are powerful. Notwithstanding what has been printed in gazettes and newspapers, we have never seen small bodies unsupported successfully opposed to large ; nor has the experience of any officer realized...
Seite 520 - Kriglish divisions were separated, and the right wing turned, it was abundantly evident that the battle would soon be lost, if the original concentrated position above Fuentes Onoro was not quickly regained. Lord...
Seite 546 - Cole led his fuzileers up the contested height. At this time six guns were in the enemy's possession, the whole of Werle's reserves were coming forward to reinforce the front column of the French, the remnant of Houghton's brigade could no longer maintain its ground, the field was heaped with carcasses, the lancers were riding furiously about the captured artillery on the upper parts of the hill, and behind all, Hamilton's Portuguese and Alten's Germans, now withdrawing from the bridge, seemed to...
Seite 335 - ... were the leaders of the enemy, that each man of the first section raised his musket, and two officers and ten soldiers fell before them. Not a Frenchman had missed his mark ! They could do no more ! The head of their column was violently overturned and driven upon the rear, both flanks were hipped over by the English wings, and three terrible discharges at five yards