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 9J. Murray, 1837 |
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... duties . I have not got the returns , but I believe that our loss since the commencement of these operations amounts to 120 men killed and wounded . On the same day that Badajoz was invested , Lieut . Gene- ral Sir Thomas Graham crossed ...
... duties . I have not got the returns , but I believe that our loss since the commencement of these operations amounts to 120 men killed and wounded . On the same day that Badajoz was invested , Lieut . Gene- ral Sir Thomas Graham crossed ...
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... duties in the trenches were conducted successively by Major General the Hon . C. Colville , Major General Bowes , and Major General Kempt , under the superintendence of Lieut . General Picton . I have had occasion to mention all these ...
... duties in the trenches were conducted successively by Major General the Hon . C. Colville , Major General Bowes , and Major General Kempt , under the superintendence of Lieut . General Picton . I have had occasion to mention all these ...
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... duty and supply the army with means of trans- port . These difficulties have continued to exist ; but I must do Major General Victoria , the Governor of Elvas , the justice to report that he , and the troops under his command , have ...
... duty and supply the army with means of trans- port . These difficulties have continued to exist ; but I must do Major General Victoria , the Governor of Elvas , the justice to report that he , and the troops under his command , have ...
Side 53
... duty in proportion to their gross numbers , and fewer sick , than any of the 1st battalions recently arrived which had been in Walcheren ; and it is certain that this army will not be so strong by the exchange of new for old soldiers ...
... duty in proportion to their gross numbers , and fewer sick , than any of the 1st battalions recently arrived which had been in Walcheren ; and it is certain that this army will not be so strong by the exchange of new for old soldiers ...
Side 54
... duty in this country all the officers absent in England for various causes . I have really more to do than I can manage . ' General the Earl of Wellington , K.B. , to Lieut . General Sir R. Hill , K.B. ' MY DEAR HILL , < ' Camp before ...
... duty in this country all the officers absent in England for various causes . I have really more to do than I can manage . ' General the Earl of Wellington , K.B. , to Lieut . General Sir R. Hill , K.B. ' MY DEAR HILL , < ' Camp before ...
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The Dispatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington: During His ..., Volum 9 Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1838 |
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6th division Alicante Andalusia April army of Portugal artillery attack Badajoz Ballesteros battalion Believe Beresford bridge brigade British Cadiz Captain Carlos de España Castaños castle cavalry Ciudad Rodrigo Colonel Commissary DEAR HILL DEAR SIR desirable detachment dispatch Don Carlos dragoons Drouet Duero Earl Bathurst Earl of Liverpool Earl of Wellington Elvas enemy enemy's Estremadura Excellency Charles Stuart French Freneda Galicia garrison Guadiana Henry Wellesley honor infantry instant June K.B. MY DEAR Lieut likewise Lisbon LORD Lord William Bentinck Lordship Madrid Majesty's Major General Clinton Major General Cooke Marmont Marquis of Wellington Marshal ment military move movement obliged officers operations Portugal Portuguese Government propose received your letter regiment retired Royal Highness Salamanca Secretary sent siege Sir H Sir Henry Wellesley Sir Rowland Hill Sir William Beresford soldiers Soult Spanish Government supply Tagus Tarifa Tormes Valencia Valladolid Villa Toro wounded yesterday
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Side 248 - I have the honor to enclose the copy of a letter which I have received from Marshal Sir William Beresford...
Side 225 - Delancy, who was killed by a cannon shot in the middle of the action. This officer is a serious loss to his Majesty's service, and to me at this moment.
Side 64 - 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 437 - ... made such long and repeated halts ; and none on which the retreating armies were so little pressed on their rear by the enemy. • We must look therefore for the existing evils, and for the situation in which we now find the army, to some cause besides those resulting from the operations in which we have been engaged.
Side 225 - Senora de la Pena, on which height they maintained themselves with the enemy throughout the day. The possession, by the enemy, however, of the more distant of the Arapiles, rendered it necessary for me to extend the right of the army...
Side 370 - It is impossible to represent in adequate terms my sense of the conduct of the guards and German legion upon this occasion; and I am quite satisfied, that if it had been possible to maintain the posts which they had gained with so much gallantry, these troops would have maintained them. Some of the men stormed even the third line, and one was killed in one of the embrasures of that line ; and I had the satisfaction of seeing, that if I could breach the wall of the castle, we should carry the place.
Side 226 - ... carried our Arapiles, or he would have confined us entirely to our position. This was not to be endured, and we fell upon him, turning his left flank ; and I never saw an army receive such a beating.
Side 287 - Atkinson; such arms being first duly exemplified according to the laws of arms, and recorded in the Herald's Office, otherwise the said licence and permission to be void and of none effect: and also to command that the said royal concession and declaration be registered in his Majesty's College of Arms.
Side 437 - ... than any army with which I have ever served, or of which I have ever read ; yet this army has met with no disaster; it has suffered no privations, which but trifling attention on the part of the officers could not have prevented ; and for which there existed no reason whatever in the nature of the service...