The Dispatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington: During His Various Campaigns in India, Denmark, Portugal, Spain, the Low Countries, and France, from 1799 to 1818, Volum 4J. Murray, 1835 |
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Side 25
... position of the French armies , and par- ticularly by their late success at Rio Seco , to which I shall presently refer , the Junta have no official accounts of any of these actions ; but they give credit to those they have received ...
... position of the French armies , and par- ticularly by their late success at Rio Seco , to which I shall presently refer , the Junta have no official accounts of any of these actions ; but they give credit to those they have received ...
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... position of the French armies , I understand that there are others referable to the desire which each of the king- doms of which Spain is composed has that the Cortes should be established within itself . If the French should be obliged ...
... position of the French armies , I understand that there are others referable to the desire which each of the king- doms of which Spain is composed has that the Cortes should be established within itself . If the French should be obliged ...
Side 36
... position . Even supposing that we should deem it expedient eventually to return and carry on operations in the south of Spain , it is not probable , from the general state of the French , that any great misfortune can happen before we ...
... position . Even supposing that we should deem it expedient eventually to return and carry on operations in the south of Spain , it is not probable , from the general state of the French , that any great misfortune can happen before we ...
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... position in the neighbourhood of the Tagus appears so strong , that it is considered impracticable to make a landing in that quarter , without diverting the attention by an attack to the northward . The plans of attack on Cascaes Bay ...
... position in the neighbourhood of the Tagus appears so strong , that it is considered impracticable to make a landing in that quarter , without diverting the attention by an attack to the northward . The plans of attack on Cascaes Bay ...
Side 42
... positions which he would take for the defence of these posts must be all turned from the heights to the northward of Lisbon , and , indeed , unless prevented by our possession of these heights , the enemy would have it in his power to ...
... positions which he would take for the defence of these posts must be all turned from the heights to the northward of Lisbon , and , indeed , unless prevented by our possession of these heights , the enemy would have it in his power to ...
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The Dispatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington: During His ..., Volum 4 Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1837 |
The Dispatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington: During His ..., Volum 4 Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1837 |
The Dispatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington: During His ..., Volum 4 Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1837 |
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20th light dragoons Abrantes Admiral advanced guard Alberche Alcantara ammunition arrived artillery assistance attack August battalion Believe brigade British army British troops Captain Castello Branco cavalry Coimbra Colonel Murray Commander in Chief Commissary communication Cuesta DEAR SIR DEAR VILLIERS desire detachment dispatch enclose enemy enemy's England force French army French corps Galicia Government honor horses infantry J. H. Frere John Villiers join July June Junot Junta landed Leyria Lieut Lisbon LORD Lordship Majesty's Marshal Beresford Mondego morning move mules neighbourhood northward O'Donoju obliged officers operations opinion Oporto Plasencia Portugal Portuguese army Portuguese troops position proposed Quarter Master Ramalhal received your letter regiment respecting retreat Right road Santarem Secretary sent ships Sir Arthur Wellesley Sir Harry Burrard Sir Hew Dalrymple Sir John Moore's soon Soult Spain Spanish army supply Tagus Talavera to-morrow Torres Vedras transports Vimieiro Viscount Castlereagh yesterday
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Side 401 - Lestrade, and I shall be very much obliged to you if you will let me hear of any fresh, developments of so singular a chain of events.
Side 118 - In short, in ten days after the action of the 21st, we are not farther advanced, or indeed, as I believe, so far advanced as we should and ought to have been on the night of the 21st. I assure you, my dear Lord, matters are not prospering here ; and I feel an earnest desire to quit the army. I have been too successful with this army ever to serve with it in a subordinate situation with satisfaction to the person who shall command it, and, of course, not to myself. However, I shall do whatever the...
Side 352 - The army behave terribly ill ; they are a rabble, who cannot bear success any more than Sir John Moore's army could bear failure.
Side 114 - Commanderin-Chief may judge it unnecessary to embark. In like manner, all individuals of the army shall be at liberty to dispose of their private property of every description ; with full security hereafter for the purchasers.
Side 115 - 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.
Side 508 - Shortly after the repulse of this general attack, in which, apparently, all the enemy's troops were employed, he commenced his retreat across the Alberche, which was conducted in the most regular order, and was effected during the night, leaving in our hands twenty ' pieces of cannon, ammunition, tumbrils, and some prisoners.
Side 96 - D'Abrantes in person, in which the enemy was certainly superior in cavalry and artillery, and in which not more than half of the British army was actually engaged, he has sustained a signal defeat, and has lost thirteen pieces of cannon, twentythree ammunition waggons, with powder, shells, stores of all descriptions, and 20,000 rounds of musket ammunition.
Side 96 - Craufurd's brigade and the Portuguese troops, in two lines, advanced along the height on the left. In the advance of MajorGeneral Ferguson's brigade six pieces of cannon were taken from the enemy, with many prisoners, and vast numbers were killed and wounded.
Side 81 - CEbidos, from whence the enemy's piquets had been driven on the 15th; and from that time he had posts in the hills on both sides of the valley, as well as in the plain in front of his army, which was posted on the...
Side 95 - On the right of the position they were repulsed by the bayonets of the 97th regiment, which corps was successfully supported by the 2d battalion 52d regiment, which, by an advance in column, took the enemy in flank.