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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... mean time I think it proper to apprize your Lordship that the attack of Tarragona or of Barcelona appear to me , of all the ... means placed at my disposal , in compari- son with those of the enemy , and adverting to your Lordship's ...
... mean time I think it proper to apprize your Lordship that the attack of Tarragona or of Barcelona appear to me , of all the ... means placed at my disposal , in compari- son with those of the enemy , and adverting to your Lordship's ...
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... means of transport necessary for the success of this or any other operation . My own anxiety , and the detail into which I am obliged to enter in order to find resources to overcome difficulties which occur at every moment , I put out ...
... means of transport necessary for the success of this or any other operation . My own anxiety , and the detail into which I am obliged to enter in order to find resources to overcome difficulties which occur at every moment , I put out ...
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... means of transport in the country I should not complain , but I know there is no want ; and I attribute the deficiency entirely to the defect of the Por- tuguese law upon the subject , and to the unwillingness of the magistrates to ...
... means of transport in the country I should not complain , but I know there is no want ; and I attribute the deficiency entirely to the defect of the Por- tuguese law upon the subject , and to the unwillingness of the magistrates to ...
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... means of subsistence and to improve their situation , while the latter were really in want . Yet I am concerned to add that the rich in every village insisted upon their names being inserted in the list of distressed persons , in order ...
... means of subsistence and to improve their situation , while the latter were really in want . Yet I am concerned to add that the rich in every village insisted upon their names being inserted in the list of distressed persons , in order ...
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... means and resources . This they have done in their meeting , reported on by General Cooke in his letter of the 21st March , No. 59 , besides in that of the 5th . • General Castaños is the Commander in Chief of all the Spanish troops on ...
... means and resources . This they have done in their meeting , reported on by General Cooke in his letter of the 21st March , No. 59 , besides in that of the 5th . • General Castaños is the Commander in Chief of all the Spanish troops on ...
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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...