Napoleon: A History of the Art of War ...Houghton, Mifflin, 1907 |
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Side 27
... concentrate . all the troops in a circle of seven or eight days from Madrid . . so as to profit from the advantage one has of being in the middle , to crush successively with all your forces the different corps of the enemy . . . . This ...
... concentrate . all the troops in a circle of seven or eight days from Madrid . . so as to profit from the advantage one has of being in the middle , to crush successively with all your forces the different corps of the enemy . . . . This ...
Side 34
... concentrating all his forces . Delaborde held Wellesley back for a day or two , and at Vimiero Junot attacked him August 21. Though not senior , Wellesley happened to be in command . He fought a defensive battle , the type of all his ...
... concentrating all his forces . Delaborde held Wellesley back for a day or two , and at Vimiero Junot attacked him August 21. Though not senior , Wellesley happened to be in command . He fought a defensive battle , the type of all his ...
Side 45
... concentrate out towards Leyria , while Wellesley's plan was to march along the coast to be near the fleet . Moore with ten thousand men was due to arrive , and Wellesley projected that he should march on Santarem , and both converge on ...
... concentrate out towards Leyria , while Wellesley's plan was to march along the coast to be near the fleet . Moore with ten thousand men was due to arrive , and Wellesley projected that he should march on Santarem , and both converge on ...
Side 66
... concentrate and receive a general battle . " In the situation of things , the presumption of the enemy leads one to think that he will remain in the position he is in . The longer he remains near us , the better it will be . The war ...
... concentrate and receive a general battle . " In the situation of things , the presumption of the enemy leads one to think that he will remain in the position he is in . The longer he remains near us , the better it will be . The war ...
Side 95
... concentrate all his forces ; and on learning November 28 of Castaños ' defeat at Tudela , his presence in Spain appeared to him both unnecessary and dangerous . He wrote Baird that he should probably order him back on Corunna ...
... concentrate all his forces ; and on learning November 28 of Castaños ' defeat at Tudela , his presence in Spain appeared to him both unnecessary and dangerous . He wrote Baird that he should probably order him back on Corunna ...
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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
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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...