Napoleon: A History of the Art of War ...Houghton, Mifflin, 1907 |
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Side 10
... lost , its army stationed in every part of the world , from Holstein to Portugal , and its seaports closed to England , yet the Spanish people never doubted they could replace a Spanish king upon the Spanish throne . Never did people ...
... lost , its army stationed in every part of the world , from Holstein to Portugal , and its seaports closed to England , yet the Spanish people never doubted they could replace a Spanish king upon the Spanish throne . Never did people ...
Side 28
... lost the battle , the whole French situation would have been compro- mised ; but he did his work handsomely . The Spaniards , some twenty - two thousand strong , stood in two bodies under Cuesta on the right and Blake on the left ...
... lost the battle , the whole French situation would have been compro- mised ; but he did his work handsomely . The Spaniards , some twenty - two thousand strong , stood in two bodies under Cuesta on the right and Blake on the left ...
Side 29
... lost it . On July 17 the emperor wrote him : " The battle of Medina de Rio Seco will be one more title to your military reputation . Never was battle gained under more important circumstances . It has decided the affairs of Spain ...
... lost it . On July 17 the emperor wrote him : " The battle of Medina de Rio Seco will be one more title to your military reputation . Never was battle gained under more important circumstances . It has decided the affairs of Spain ...
Side 30
... plenty of artillery . Though outnumbered two to one , the French attacked lustily , but by noon they had lost two thousand men , and the Swiss troops in French ser- - CAPITULATION OF DUPONT . 31 vice deserted to the enemy.
... plenty of artillery . Though outnumbered two to one , the French attacked lustily , but by noon they had lost two thousand men , and the Swiss troops in French ser- - CAPITULATION OF DUPONT . 31 vice deserted to the enemy.
Side 48
... lost Madrid , was followed by Cintra , which allowed the English to gain a sound foothold in Portugal . Both seriously blocked the schemes of Napoleon . At Vimiero Wellesley first put in practice the method of opposing the French line ...
... lost Madrid , was followed by Cintra , which allowed the English to gain a sound foothold in Portugal . Both seriously blocked the schemes of Napoleon . At Vimiero Wellesley first put in practice the method of opposing the French line ...
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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...