Napoleon: A History of the Art of War ...Houghton, Mifflin, 1907 |
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Side ix
... WELLESLEY . JULY TO SEPTEMBER , 1808 34 XL . NAPOLEON IN SPAIN . OCTOBER , 1808 , TO JANU- ARY , 1809 58 XLI . RATISBON . FEBRUARY TO APRIL , 1809 127 XLII . ABENSBERG AND EGGMÜHL . APRIL 19 TO 23 , 1809 182 XLIII . AGAIN TO VIENNA ...
... WELLESLEY . JULY TO SEPTEMBER , 1808 34 XL . NAPOLEON IN SPAIN . OCTOBER , 1808 , TO JANU- ARY , 1809 58 XLI . RATISBON . FEBRUARY TO APRIL , 1809 127 XLII . ABENSBERG AND EGGMÜHL . APRIL 19 TO 23 , 1809 182 XLIII . AGAIN TO VIENNA ...
Side xi
... Wellesley . Battle of Assaye • 33 39 41 42 Battle of Vimiero English Grenadiers . 46 47 French Light Infantry Junot · Pistols once belonging to Napoleon Part of Northern Spain The Ebro Campaign . 49 51 57 62 69 Spanish Grenadiers ...
... Wellesley . Battle of Assaye • 33 39 41 42 Battle of Vimiero English Grenadiers . 46 47 French Light Infantry Junot · Pistols once belonging to Napoleon Part of Northern Spain The Ebro Campaign . 49 51 57 62 69 Spanish Grenadiers ...
Side xiii
... Wellesley - Soult Campaign Talavera Campaign Battle of Talavera Sébastiani . English Hussar Joseph Bonaparte 328 333 336 343 353 358 369 377 383 Battle of Busaco 391 Massena 395 Massena's Retreat 404 Battle of Fuentes d'Onoro 407 Battle ...
... Wellesley - Soult Campaign Talavera Campaign Battle of Talavera Sébastiani . English Hussar Joseph Bonaparte 328 333 336 343 353 358 369 377 383 Battle of Busaco 391 Massena 395 Massena's Retreat 404 Battle of Fuentes d'Onoro 407 Battle ...
Side 23
... in - chief , began to elevate their standard , and Abercrombie in Egypt , Stewart at Maida , and Wellesley and Lake in India led the way upward ; and later Wellington - - This 24 THE BATTALION . carried it forward to its acme.
... in - chief , began to elevate their standard , and Abercrombie in Egypt , Stewart at Maida , and Wellesley and Lake in India led the way upward ; and later Wellington - - This 24 THE BATTALION . carried it forward to its acme.
Side 33
... meant to avenge Baylen , and it seemed as if , at the head of a quarter of a million men , he might easily do so . VOL . III . Sword of the Period . SIR ARTHUR WELLESLEY . JULY TO SEPTEMBER , 1808 . Sword of the Period •
... meant to avenge Baylen , and it seemed as if , at the head of a quarter of a million men , he might easily do so . VOL . III . Sword of the Period . SIR ARTHUR WELLESLEY . JULY TO SEPTEMBER , 1808 . Sword of the Period •
Vanlige uttrykk og setninger
Abensberg advance April archduke arrived artillery Asparn assembled attack Augsburg Austrian Badajoz Bagration Barclay battalions battle Bavarians Bernadotte Berthier Bessières Bohemia Breitenlee bridge Burgos campaign Castaños cavalry centre Charles column command corps cross Danube Davout debouch defeat defense division Donauwörth Ebro Eggmühl enemy enemy's English Essling Eugene fight flank force French army Friant front Grand Army Guard guns headquarters Hilaire Hiller horse hundred infantry Ingolstadt Isar July Junot Kollowrath Kutusov La Romana Landshut Lannes Lefebvre left bank Linz Lisbon Lobau Madrid manœuvre Marmont marshals Massena miles Montbrun Moore Moscow move Murat Nansouty Napoleon Napoleon wrote operations orders Oudinot Passau Poniatowski Portugal position pushed Ratisbon reached rear regiments reserve retired retreat road Russian Salamanca Saragossa sent Smolensk soldiers Soult Spain Spaniards Spanish Tagus Talavera thousand town troops Tudela Vandamme Victor Vienna village Vilna Vitebsk Wagram Wellesley Wellington wing Wrede wrote Berthier
Populære avsnitt
Side 360 - These circumstances, combined with the extreme fatigue of the troops, the want of provisions, and the number of wounded to be taken care of, have prevented me from moving from my position.
Side 284 - Emperor of the French, King of Italy, Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine, Mediator of the Swiss Confederation.
Side 167 - Austria arrived at my bivouac in Moravia ; you heard him implore my clemency, and swear an eternal friendship.
Side 744 - Sebastian were invested. Joseph's reign was over, the crown had fallen from his head, and after years of toils and combats which had been rather admired than understood, the English general, emerging from the chaos of the Peninsular struggle, stood on the summit of the Pyrenees a recognized conqueror. From those lofty pinnacles the clangor of his trumpets pealed clear and loud, and the splendor of his genius appeared as a flaming beacon to warring nations.
Side 569 - here is the battle you have longed for ; it is necessary, for it brings us plenty, good winter-quarters, and a safe return to France. Behave yourselves so that posterity may say of each of you, ' He was in that great battle under the walls of Moscow.
Side 724 - that discipline had deteriorated during the campaign in a greater degree than he had ever witnessed or ever read of in any army, and this without any disaster, any unusual privation or hardship save that of inclement weather ; that the officers had, from the first, lost all command over their men, and...
Side 53 - Let us bear our triumphal eagles to the pillars of Hercules, there also we have injuries to avenge ! Soldiers ! you have surpassed the renown of modern armies, but have you yet equalled the glory of those Romans who, in one and the same campaign, were victorious upon the Rhine and the Euphrates, in Illyria and upon the Tagus! A long peace, a lasting prosperity, shall be the reward of your labours.
Side 214 - You have justified my expectations; you have made up for numbers by bravery. You have gloriously proved the difference which exists between the soldiers of Caesar and the armed hordes of Xerxes. "In a few days we have triumphed in the three pitched battles of Thann, Abensberg, and Eckmiihl, and in the engagements of Peising, Landshut, and Ratisbon.
Side 53 - Rome, which, in the same campaign, triumphed on the Rhine and on the Euphrates, in Illyria and on the Tagus.
Side 569 - Soldiers ! there is the field •of battle you have so much desired ! henceforth victory depends on you : it is necessary to us : it will give us plenty, good quarters for the winter, and a speedy return to your country. -Behave yourselves as you did at Austerlitz, at Friedland...