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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... taken to supply the men and horses on the march they will have to make through Lower Beira into Alentejo ; upon which your Commissary will receive his instructions from the Commissary General . 6 I beg you to desire Major Grant of the ...
... taken to supply the men and horses on the march they will have to make through Lower Beira into Alentejo ; upon which your Commissary will receive his instructions from the Commissary General . 6 I beg you to desire Major Grant of the ...
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... taken , the siege of Tarragona , in order to give General Lacy a point of communication with the fleet . I am not very well acquainted with the state of affairs on the Eastern coast . I believe , however , that Barcelona is a place of ...
... taken , the siege of Tarragona , in order to give General Lacy a point of communication with the fleet . I am not very well acquainted with the state of affairs on the Eastern coast . I believe , however , that Barcelona is a place of ...
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... taken ill before he had completed his task , but not before he and the other gentlemen had made reports which , at the same time that they showed the general distress of the district , proved that no information could be obtained ...
... taken ill before he had completed his task , but not before he and the other gentlemen had made reports which , at the same time that they showed the general distress of the district , proved that no information could be obtained ...
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... taken away . I must observe , that this is the mode in which the local Government of Portugal have acted by me for the last two years . They are apprehensive of the displeasure of their Prince and of the country , if they openly object ...
... taken away . I must observe , that this is the mode in which the local Government of Portugal have acted by me for the last two years . They are apprehensive of the displeasure of their Prince and of the country , if they openly object ...
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... taken out of the water , placed upon their carriages , and drawn into Elvas , the five boats now formed into the two flying bridges , with all the materials be- longing to them . " There are in Badajoz fifteen pontoons , which the ...
... taken out of the water , placed upon their carriages , and drawn into Elvas , the five boats now formed into the two flying bridges , with all the materials be- longing to them . " There are in Badajoz fifteen pontoons , which the ...
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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...