 | 1848 - 788 sider
...Wellington, with his Anglo-Portuguese army, has taken the place, as it were, in the presence of two armies. In short, I think the capture of Badajoz a very extraordinary event. I should be much at a loss to account for it in any manner consistent with probability." The language... | |
 | Thomas Hamilton - 1829 - 488 sider
...men. This is the consequence of the want of a supreme chief. In short, I think the capture of Badajos a very extraordinary event ; and I should be much at a loss to account for it in any manner consistent with probability." . The truth is, that had Soult and Marmont profited by the... | |
 | 1833 - 592 sider
...place, as it were, in the presence of two armies, amounting together to about eighty thousand men. In short, I think the capture of Badajoz a very extraordinary event" — (and he was right) — " and I should be much at a loss to account for it in a clear and distinct manner."... | |
 | Thomas Hamilton - 1831 - 316 sider
...men. This is the consequence of the want of a supreme chief. In short, I think the capture of Badajos a very extraordinary event ; and I should be much at a loss to account for it in any manner consistent with probability." The truth is, that had Soult and Marmont profited by the lesson... | |
 | 1833 - 594 sider
...place, as it were, in the presence of two armies, amounting together to about eighty thousand men. In short, I think the capture of Badajoz a very extraordinary event" — (and he was right) — " and I should be much at a loss to account for it in a clear and distinct manner."... | |
 | sir James Edward Alexander - 1840 - 620 sider
...armies, amounting to about eighty thousand men. This is the consequence of the want of a supreme chief. In short, I think the capture of Badajoz a very extraordinary...and I should be much at a loss to account for it in any manner consistent with probability." Different French writers, indeed, in treating of the campaign... | |
 | William Grattan - 1847 - 366 sider
...place, as it were, in the presence of two armies, amounting together to about eighty thousand men. In short, I think the capture of Badajoz a very extraordinary event" — (and he was right) — " and I should be much at a loss to account for it in a clear and distinct manner."... | |
 | 1847 - 806 sider
...extraordinary event," Lery, Soult's chief engineer, wrote to General Kellerman, " and I am much a' a loss to account for it in a clear and distinct manner." This comes at the .end of a mysterious sort of epistle, iu which the engineer general talks of fatality,... | |
 | 1848 - 806 sider
...Wellington, with his Anglo-Portuguese army, has taken the place, as it were, in the presence of two armies. In short, I think the capture of Badajoz a very extraordinary event. I should be much at a loss to account for it ¡IP any manner consistent with probability." The language... | |
 | 1848 - 798 sider
...in the presence of two armies. In short, I think the capture of Badajoz a very extraordinary event. I should be much at a loss to account for it in any manner consistent with probability." The language of this chief engineer seems, as if he would... | |
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Portuguese troops, has taken the place, as it were, in the presence of two armies, amounting together to about eighty thousand men. In short, I think the capture of Badajoz a very extraordinary event" — (and he was right) — " and I should be much... 
