History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France: From the Year 1807 to the Year 1814, Band 1Meline, Cans and Company and for G. Pratt, 1839 |
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... received with enthusiasm in England - Ministers precipitate- Imprudent choice of agents - Junot marches to Alcantara , joined by the Spanish con- tingent , enters Portugal , arrives at Abrantes , pushes on to Lisbon - Prince regent ...
... received with enthusiasm in England - Ministers precipitate- Imprudent choice of agents - Junot marches to Alcantara , joined by the Spanish con- tingent , enters Portugal , arrives at Abrantes , pushes on to Lisbon - Prince regent ...
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... receiving H. R. Highness's answer , I proceeded to Lisbon on the 27th , in his majesty's ship Confiance , bearing a ... received the most explicit assurances from me , that his majesty would generously overlook those acts of unwilling ...
... receiving H. R. Highness's answer , I proceeded to Lisbon on the 27th , in his majesty's ship Confiance , bearing a ... received the most explicit assurances from me , that his majesty would generously overlook those acts of unwilling ...
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... received , and if sir Sydney Smith's " solitary letter " had not arrived just in the favourable moment to give full effect to the fear created by the Moniteur . If the prince regent had really been resolved to emigrate previously , why ...
... received , and if sir Sydney Smith's " solitary letter " had not arrived just in the favourable moment to give full effect to the fear created by the Moniteur . If the prince regent had really been resolved to emigrate previously , why ...
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... received yesterday from Gallicia , and congratulate it on the favourable appearance of things in that province . You already know that upon the defeat of the corps of marshal Soult by general sir Arthur Wellesley , the enemy were ...
... received yesterday from Gallicia , and congratulate it on the favourable appearance of things in that province . You already know that upon the defeat of the corps of marshal Soult by general sir Arthur Wellesley , the enemy were ...
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... received maxims and established principles of war . By that rule I have been guided , but , to preserve the narratives unbroken , my own observations are placed at the end of certain transactions of magnitude , where , their real source ...
... received maxims and established principles of war . By that rule I have been guided , but , to preserve the narratives unbroken , my own observations are placed at the end of certain transactions of magnitude , where , their real source ...
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Abrantes affairs Alemtejo ammunition Appendix arms arrived artillery Astorga Asturias attack Baird Barcelona battalions battle Beresford Bessières Blake bridge brigade British army Burgos Cadiz campaign Castaños Catalonia cavalry centre Ciudad Rodrigo colonel columns command communication Coruña Cuesta defeat defence despatch detachment directed division Duero duke Dupont Ebro emperor enemy enemy's errour fight flank force fourth corps France French army Frere front Gallicia garrison guard guns hundred insurrection John Moore's Junot Lapisse latter Lerida Lisbon Logroño lord Madrid marshal military Moncey movement Napoleon occupied officers operations Oporto orders Palafox passed Portugal Portuguese position provinces re-enforced rear Reding regiments retired retreat river road Romana Salamanca sent Seville side sir Arthur Wellesley sir Hew sir John Cradock sir John Moore soldiers Soult Spain Spaniards Spanish armies Tagus Talavera Tarragona thousand infantry tion town troops Tudela Victor Villa Franca Zaragoza
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Seite 310 - ... the people of England will be satisfied! I hope my country will do me justice!" In a few minutes afterwards he died, and his corpse, wrapped in a military cloak, was interred by the officers of his staff in the citadel of...
Seite 309 - Corunna ; a transaction which, up to this day, has called forth as much of falsehood and malignity as servile and interested writers could offer to the unprincipled leaders of a base faction, but which posterity will regard as a genuine example of ability and patriotism.
Seite 645 - The French army shall carry with it all its equipments, and all that is comprehended under the name of property of the army...
Seite 646 - 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.
Seite 647 - Chief of the British army, who engages to obtain of the Spaniards to restore such French subjects, either military or civil, as may have been detained in Spain without being taken in battle, or in consequence of military operations, but on occasion of the occurrences of the 29th of last May, and the days immediately following.
Seite 280 - I am unwilling to enlarge upon a subject in which my feelings must be stifled, or expressed at the risk of offence, which, with such an interest at stake, I should feel unwilling to excite, but this much I must say, that if the British army had been sent abroad for the express purpose of doing the utmost possible mischief to the Spanish cause, with the single exception of not firing a shot against their troops, they would, according to the measures now announced as about to be pursued, have completely...
Seite 308 - ... he rose again in a sitting posture, his countenance unchanged, and his steadfast eye still fixed upon the regiments engaged in his front, no sigh betraying a sensation of pain. In a few moments, when he...
Seite 356 - ... their proceedings. The dissentient party would, however, have fallen upon the others the next day, if the junta had not taken prompt measures to enforce the surrender; the officer in command of the walls near the castle, by their orders, gave up his post to the French during the night, and on the...
Seite 731 - These are notorious facts, which cannot be disputed, of the truth of which every officer and soldier in the army can bear testimony. I assure your excellency, that not only have the supplies furnished to the army under my command been paid for whenever the bills for them could be got in, but the old debts due to the inhabitants for supplies furnished to the army under the command of the late sir John Moore, have been discharged; and I have repeatedly desired the Spanish agents, and others acting...
Seite 309 - This operation was effected without delay, the arrangements being so complete that neither confusion nor difficulty occurred. The piquets, kindling a number of fires, covered the retreat of the columns, and being themselves withdrawn at daybreak, were embarked, under the protection of General Hill's brigade, which was posted near the ramparts of the town.