History of Europe, from the Commencement of the French Revolution, in 1789, to the Restoration of the Bourbons in 1815, Band 8W. Blackwood, 1870 |
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... infantry and two thou- sand horse , with eighty - six guns , were all that the Spaniards could rely upon for immediate operations on the Ebro ; for although considerable reserves were collecting in the rear , yet they were too far from ...
... infantry and two thou- sand horse , with eighty - six guns , were all that the Spaniards could rely upon for immediate operations on the Ebro ; for although considerable reserves were collecting in the rear , yet they were too far from ...
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... infantry apart from the cavalry and were the faults of government . The great - artillery on the Flemish frontier , and within est error , in a military point of view , of Sir the reach of the enemy's attack , in 1815 , had John Moore ...
... infantry apart from the cavalry and were the faults of government . The great - artillery on the Flemish frontier , and within est error , in a military point of view , of Sir the reach of the enemy's attack , in 1815 , had John Moore ...
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... infantry , posted in a . wood on the right , at first made a gal- lant resistance , and not only was the action prolonged till nightfall , without any disadvantage , by those steady ve- terans , but the Spanish centre , who were ...
... infantry , posted in a . wood on the right , at first made a gal- lant resistance , and not only was the action prolonged till nightfall , without any disadvantage , by those steady ve- terans , but the Spanish centre , who were ...
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... infantry , and four thou- triumphant proclamations of the Em- sand cavalry , with forty guns . peror , and boasting that , notwithstand - generals of the armies of Andalusia ing their utmost exertions , the French and Aragon could not ...
... infantry , and four thou- triumphant proclamations of the Em- sand cavalry , with forty guns . peror , and boasting that , notwithstand - generals of the armies of Andalusia ing their utmost exertions , the French and Aragon could not ...
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... infantry and five thousand cavalry , powder - waggon having exploded by with sixty pieces of cannon , instantly accident , the retreat became disorderly , perceived the weakness of the enemy's and it was with some difficulty the line ...
... infantry and five thousand cavalry , powder - waggon having exploded by with sixty pieces of cannon , instantly accident , the retreat became disorderly , perceived the weakness of the enemy's and it was with some difficulty the line ...
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amidst Andalusia Antwerp Archduke Charles Archduke John arms arrived artillery Aspern assailed attack Austrian bank battle battle of Aspern battle of Wagram Bavarians Breitenlee bridge British cabinet campaign capital cavalry centre columns combat command commenced contest corps cuirassiers Danube Davoust defeat defence despatched direction disaster division Duke effect Emperor empire enemy enemy's English Europe fell fire flank force fortress France French army front frontier Galicia garrison Guard guns horse hundred Imperial infantry Landshut Lannes Lobau Madrid Marshal Massena ment military mountains Napo Napoleon Peninsula pieces of cannon Portugal position prisoners provinces Ratisbon rear regiments resistance retired retreat river road Russia sand Saragossa Scheldt side siege sion Sir John Moore soldiers soon Soult Spain Spaniards Spanish Spechbacher strength success Tagus tain thou thousand strong tion took town twenty thousand Tyrol Tyrolese valley victory Vienna vigour Wagram Wellington whole wounded
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 224 - Being existed with whom a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years.
Seite 32 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.
Seite 31 - 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.
Seite 194 - Pitt, who, since his election, has accepted the office of First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Seite 31 - the people of England will be satisfied ! I hope my country will do me justice ! ' These precious sentences were among the last he uttered : his sufferings were not long : he expired with the hand of Colonel Anderson pressed firmly in his own.
Seite 295 - In the youth of a state, arms do flourish; in the middle age of a state, learning; and then both of them together for a time; in the declining age of a state, mechanical arts and merchandise.
Seite 247 - The negotiations occupied six days, when conditions were agreed to — that the garrison should march out with the honours of war, and that all the ammunition, stores, &c., in the castle be delivered up without injury to the besieging army.
Seite 300 - France, which deprived it of the happiness of being one day governed by the descendants of a great man, evidently raised up by Providence to efface the evils of a terrible revolution, and to re-establish the altar, the throne, and social order.
Seite 272 - ... ordnance, upon travelling carriages, should be sent to Portugal, with a view to the occupation of certain positions in the country ; that a corps of engineers for an army of 60,000 men should be sent there, and a corps of artillery for sixty pieces of cannon. " I understand that the British army now in Portugal consists of 20,000 men, including cavalry. It should be made up 20,000 infantry, at least, as soon as .possible, by additions...
Seite 32 - Sir John Moore, I need not expatiate on the loss the army and his country have sustained by his death. His fall has deprived me of a valuable friend, to whom long experience of his worth had sincerely attached me.