Napoleon: A History of the Art of War ...Houghton, Mifflin, 1907 |
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Side 1
... sent to Spain were new , but far superior to the Spanish . At the opening of the Napoleonic wars the English army status was low , but the Duke of York began to raise it , and Wellington brought it up to the highest pitch . Napoleon did ...
... sent to Spain were new , but far superior to the Spanish . At the opening of the Napoleonic wars the English army status was low , but the Duke of York began to raise it , and Wellington brought it up to the highest pitch . Napoleon did ...
Side 15
... sent to the Baltic . A not inconsiderable part was made up of foreign bodies , - Walloons , Swiss , Germans , Neapolitans and Irish ; perhaps two thirds of the paper figures were Spanish . Of cavalry there were fifteen thousand men ...
... sent to the Baltic . A not inconsiderable part was made up of foreign bodies , - Walloons , Swiss , Germans , Neapolitans and Irish ; perhaps two thirds of the paper figures were Spanish . Of cavalry there were fifteen thousand men ...
Side 21
... sent by Napoleon in 1807 to subdue Spain were largely poor levies . The emperor had been anticipating the conscription : in December , 1806 , that of 1807 : in March , 1807 , that of 1808 ; in January , 1808 , that of 1809. Even before ...
... sent by Napoleon in 1807 to subdue Spain were largely poor levies . The emperor had been anticipating the conscription : in December , 1806 , that of 1807 : in March , 1807 , that of 1808 ; in January , 1808 , that of 1809. Even before ...
Side 25
... sent to Bayonne to serve as officers in Spain . 4th , if among the disabled officers should be found thirty captains , eight or ten battal- ion chiefs and a few colonels of some value , they were also to be sent to Bayonne , where work ...
... sent to Bayonne to serve as officers in Spain . 4th , if among the disabled officers should be found thirty captains , eight or ten battal- ion chiefs and a few colonels of some value , they were also to be sent to Bayonne , where work ...
Side 29
... " Dupont , whose gallant work in the Ulm campaign we remem- ber , and who expected to win his marshal's baton , was sent reinforcements to enable him to win Cordova , Seville and 30 DUPONT REINFORCED . Cadiz . From Toledo , late.
... " Dupont , whose gallant work in the Ulm campaign we remem- ber , and who expected to win his marshal's baton , was sent reinforcements to enable him to win Cordova , Seville and 30 DUPONT REINFORCED . Cadiz . From Toledo , late.
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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
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...