The Dispatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington: Peninsula and France, 1813-1814J. Murray, 1838 |
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Side 18
... loss in the assault of the breaches , if it did not tend to insure the success of the assault . I also beg to draw your Lordship's attention to an official communication of my opinion that material advan- tage would be gained by ...
... loss in the assault of the breaches , if it did not tend to insure the success of the assault . I also beg to draw your Lordship's attention to an official communication of my opinion that material advan- tage would be gained by ...
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... loss of some particular ships , loaded with ordnance or military stores , would go to impede all the operations of the campaign . For instance , we have done literally nothing since the 2nd of August , because there was a mistake re ...
... loss of some particular ships , loaded with ordnance or military stores , would go to impede all the operations of the campaign . For instance , we have done literally nothing since the 2nd of August , because there was a mistake re ...
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... loss of time to Lord William Bentinck , and will forward any answers which the Admiral may send by the same channel . I have a perfect communication with Lord William along the Ebro . Believe me , & c . J. W. Croker , Esq ...
... loss of time to Lord William Bentinck , and will forward any answers which the Admiral may send by the same channel . I have a perfect communication with Lord William along the Ebro . Believe me , & c . J. W. Croker , Esq ...
Side 32
... loss , notwithstanding that our trenches were always full , and I may safely say did not impede our progress for one moment . I think it therefore doubtful that , even if knew where the enemy's entrenchment was , his bombardment would ...
... loss , notwithstanding that our trenches were always full , and I may safely say did not impede our progress for one moment . I think it therefore doubtful that , even if knew where the enemy's entrenchment was , his bombardment would ...
Side 35
... loss of 300 or 400 men in the unsuccessful storm of San Sebastian , and of the men in the affair at the The troops , however , will some- times behave ill , and posts will sometimes be surprised , and the troops engaged be roughly ...
... loss of 300 or 400 men in the unsuccessful storm of San Sebastian , and of the men in the affair at the The troops , however , will some- times behave ill , and posts will sometimes be surprised , and the troops engaged be roughly ...
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6th division Adour allies Altesse Royale armée attack Bayonne Believe blockade Bordeaux brigade British Cadiz Captain Sir George Catalonia cavalry CHER GÉNÉRAL Colonel command Commissary conduct corps DEAR BERESFORD DEAR LORD DEAR SIR desire dispatch division Don Manuel Freyre Duc d'Angoulême Earl Bathurst enemy enemy's été Excellency faire fait Français France French garrison George Collier Graham Henry Wellesley honor of receiving J'ai l'honneur d'être Jean de Luz K.B. MY DEAR l'armée Lesaca Lieut Lisbon Lord William Bentinck Lordship Majesty's Major March Marshal Sir W. C. ment Minister obliged officers operations opinion ordres Pasages port Portuguese posts prisoners qu'il quarters received your letter regiment Royal Highness San Sebastian Santander Santoña sent Sept Sir George Collier Sir Henry Wellesley Sir John Hope Sir Rowland Hill Sir W. C. Beresford Sir William Beresford soldiers Spain Spanish army Spanish Government Suchet Toulouse town vessels WELLINGTON
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Side 155 - 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 169 - ... 5. To revenge this conduct on the peaceable inhabitants of France would be unmanly and unworthy of the nations to whom the Commander of the Forces now addresses himself, and at all events would be the occasion of similar and worse evils to the army at large than those which the enemy's army have suffered in the Peninsula, and would eventually prove highly injurious to the public interests.
Side 346 - I do not know whether you are aware of the fact that we are taught in medicine to observe carefully these seemingly trivial things.
Side 98 - I would recommend to you is, to express neither disappointment nor wishes upon the subject, even to an intimate friend, much less to the Government. Continue, as you have done hitherto, to deserve the honourable distinction to which you aspire, and you may be certain that, if the Government is wise, you will obtain it. If you should not obtain it, you may depend upon it that there is no person of whose good opinion you would be solicitous, who will think the worse of you on that account. "The comparison...
Side 169 - The officers and soldiers of the army must recollect that their nations are at war with France, solely because the ruler of the French nation will not allow them to be at peace, and is desirous of forcing them to submit to his yoke ; and they must not forget that the worst of the evils suffered by the enemy in his profligate invasion of Spain and Portugal have been occasioned by the irregularities of the soldiers, and their cruelties authorized and encouraged by their chiefs towards the unfortunate...
Side 62 - ... and traverses in the horn-work, on the ramparts of the curtain, and inside of the town opposite to the breach, and ready to pour a most destructive fire of musketry on both flanks of the approach to the top of the narrow ridge of the curtain.
Side 635 - Pack was wounded, but was enabled to remain in the field ; and Colonel Douglas, of the 8th Portuguese regiment, lost his leg ; and I am afraid that I shall be deprived for a considerable time of his assistance.
Side 385 - ... lose by our being in this position, it will do ten times more to procure peace than ten armies on the side of Flanders.
Side 430 - I had the honour to lend you the other night at play; and which I shall be much obliged to you if you will let me have some time either to-day or to-morrow. I am sir, Your most obedient, most humble servant, GEORGE TRENT.
Side 98 - The comparison between myself, who have been the most favored of His Majesty's subjects, and you, will not be deemed quite correct ; and I advert to my own situation only to tell you, that I recommend to you conduct which I have always followed. Notwithstanding the numerous favors that I have received from the Crown...