 | Arthur Wellesley (1st duke of Wellington.) - 1838 - 620 sider
...operation with these troops. It is said that sometimes they behave well ; though I acknowledge that I have never seen them behave otherwise than ill....evening of the 27th from the battle of Talavera, (not 100 yards from the place where I was standing,) who were neither attacked, nor threatened with an attack,... | |
 | sir James Edward Alexander - 1840 - 534 sider
...practice of running away and throwing off arms, accoutrements, and clothing, is fatal to everything except a re-assembly of the men in a state of nature, who...evening of the 27th from the battle of Talavera, (not a hundred yards from the place where I was standing,) who were neither attacked nor threatened with... | |
 | Edwin Sidney - 1845 - 426 sider
...man as Cuesta, or with the cowardly Spaniards he commanded, of whom he wrote to Lord Castlereagh, " Nearly 2000 ran off, on the evening of the 27th, from the battle of Talavera, not a hundred yards from the place where I was standing, who were neither attacked nor threatened with... | |
 | Andrew Redman Bonar - 1845 - 472 sider
...nature, who as regularly perform the same manoeuvre the next time an occasion offers. Nearly 2,000 ran off on the evening of the 27th from the battle of Talavera, inot one hundred yards from the place where I was standing,) who were neither attacked, nor threatened... | |
 | Andrew Redman Bonar - 1850 - 474 sider
...nature, who as regularly perform the same manoeuvre the next time an occasion offers. Nearly 2,000 ran off on the evening of the 27th from the battle of Talavera, (not one hundred yards from the place where I was standing,l who were neither attacked, nor threatened with... | |
 | Robert Stewart Castlereagh (Viscount) - 1851 - 478 sider
...nature ; who as regularly perform the same manoauvre the next time an occasion offers. Nearly 2,000 ran off, on the evening of the 27th, from the battle...standing, who were neither attacked nor threatened with any attack, and who were frightened only by the noise of their own fire. They left their arms and accoutrements... | |
 | Robert Stewart Castlereagh (Viscount) - 1851 - 478 sider
...nature ; who as regularly perform the same manoeuvre the next time an occasion offers. Nearly 2,000 ran off, on the evening of the 27th, from the battle of Talavera, not 100 yards from the place where I was standing, who were neither attacked nor threatened with any attack,... | |
 | Mary Atkinson Maurice - 1853 - 322 sider
...SPAHTABDS. ill. ... Nearly 2000 ran off in the evening of the battle of Talavera, not one hundred yards from where I was standing, who were neither attacked nor...frightened only by the noise of their own fire."* No wonder, then, that in various battles in which the Spaniards were engaged with the French about... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1861 - 762 sider
...nature, who as regularly perform the same m mcouvre the next time an occasion offers. Nearly two thousand ran off on the evening of the 27th, from the battle of Talavera, not a hundred yards from the place where I wus standing, who were neither attacked, nor threatened with... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1861 - 766 sider
...nature, who as regularly perform the same manoeuvre the next time an occasion offers. Nearly two thousand ran off on the evening of the 27th, from the battle of Talavera, not a hundred yards from the place where I was standing, who were neither attacked, nor threatened with... | |
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Talavera, (not 100 yards from the place where I was standing,) who were neither attacked, nor threatened with an attack, and who were frightened only by the noise of their own fire... 
