 | William Francis Patrick Napier - 1833 - 740 σελίδες
...negligence and incapacity of a government, always ready to plunge the nation into war, without the slightest care of what was necessary to obtain success. The...Colonel Fletcher's plan was to breach the castle of Badajos, while batteries established on the right bank of the Guadiana should take the defence in reverse,... | |
 | Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - 1839 - 890 σελίδες
...well versed in the theory of their business. But the ablest trembled when reflecting on their niter destitution of all that belonged to real service....carried on by the British in Spain were a succession of hatcheries, because the commonest materials and the means necessary for their art were denied to the... | |
 | sir William Francis P. Napier - 1840 - 798 σελίδες
...negligence and incapacity of a government always ready to plunge the nation into war without the slightest care of what was necessary to obtain success. The...Colonel Fletcher's plan was to breach the castle of Badajos, while batteries established on the right bank of the Guadiana should take the defence in reverse,... | |
 | Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - 1842 - 458 σελίδες
...negligence and incapacity of a government, always ready to plunge the nation into war, without the slightest care of what was necessary to obtain success. The...defence in reverse, and false attacks against the Pardaleras and Picurina were also to be commenced by re-opening the French trenches. It was, however,... | |
 | Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - 1842 - 454 σελίδες
...negligence and incapacity of a government, always ready to plunge the nation into war, without the slightest care of what was necessary to obtain success. The...Badajoz, while batteries established on the right hank of the Guadiana should take the defence in reverse, and false attacks against the Pardaleras and... | |
 | 1845 - 648 σελίδες
...negligence and incapacity of a government, always ready to plunge the nation into war, without the slightest care of what was necessary to obtain success. The...because the commonest materials, and the means necessary to their art, were denied the engineers." Col. JT Jones writes in nearly the same terms of the early... | |
 | G. B. Prunetti - 1846 - 782 σελίδες
...three hundred and thirty enlisted artillery artificers. If these are useful and necessary slightest care of what was necessary to obtain success. The...because the commonest materials, and the means necessary to their art, were denied the engineers." Colonel JT Jones writes in nearly the same terms of the early... | |
 | William Francis Patrick Napier - 1867 - 470 σελίδες
...negligence and incapacity of a government, always ready to plunge the nation into war without the slightest care of what was necessary to obtain success. The...of butcheries, because the commonest materials and means necessary for their art were denied to the engineers. FIKST ENGLISH SIEGE OP BADAJOS. The chief... | |
 | William Francis Patrick Napier - 1852 - 570 σελίδες
...negligence and incapacity of a government alicays ready to plunge into war without the slightest care for what was necessary to obtain success. The sieges carried...necessary for their art were denied to the engineers. To breach the castle, while batteries established on the right bank of the Guadiana took it in reverse... | |
 | Henry Wager Halleck - 1861 - 496 σελίδες
...consequently occur, and much valuable time is lost at the most critical period of the siege." slightest care of what was necessary to obtain success. The...because the commonest materials, and the means necessary to their art, were denied the engineers." Colonel JT Jones writes in nearly the same terms of the early... | |
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... slightest care of what was necessary to obtain success. The sieges carried on by the British in Spain were a succession of butcheries, because the commonest materials and the means necessary for their art were denied to the engineers. 
