Annals of the Peninsular Campaigns: From MDCCCVIII to MDCCCXIV.W. Blackwood, 1829 |
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advance arms artillery Astorga attack batteries battle BATTLE OF TALAVERA besiegers body bridge brigade British army Cadiz campaign Catalonia cavalry CHAP CHAP.VIII column command commenced corps Corunna crossed Cuesta December defeat defence despatched detachment directed division Douro driven Ebro effect efforts enemy enemy's fire flank force French army Frere front gain possession Gallicia garrison Gerona guns hundred immediately infantry inhabitants January junction Lerida Lord Wellington loss Madrid Marshal Soult Massena ment Miquelets Mortier mountains movement Napoleon neighbourhood night occupied operations Oporto Paget Palafox passed Placentia Portugal Portuguese position prisoners reached rear Reding regiment resistance retired retreat river road Romana Salamanca siege Sir Arthur Wellesley Sir David Baird Sir John Moore soldiers Spain Spaniards Spanish army succeeded success Suchet suffered Supreme Junta surrender Tagus Talavera Tarragona thousand tion took town troops Valencia Victor Villa Franca whole wounded Zaragoza
Δημοφιλή αποσπάσματα
Σελίδα 93 - It is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me ;" and in that manner, so becoming to a soldier, Moore was borne from the fight.
Σελίδα 279 - When I shall show myself beyond" the Pyrenees, the frightened leopard will fly to the ocean, to avoid shame, defeat, and death. The triumph of my arms will be the triumph of the genius of good, over that of evil; of moderation, order, and morality, over civil war, anarchy, and the bad passions.
Σελίδα 95 - I hope the People of England will be satisfied! - I hope my Country will do me justice! Anderson, - you will see my friends as soon as you can. - Tell them, every thing - Say to my mother.
Σελίδα 83 - Valmeda. Here positive exhaustion compelled a halt ; and the men lay on the open ground for several hours, exposed to the continual action of a heavy rain. But even this brief interval was not granted to undisturbed repose. A cry arose, from time to time, that the enemy were advancing; and, at each alarm, the troops were ordered to fall in. Such an intermission was little calculated to refresh the worn strength of the soldiers ; and, towards evening, when they again resumed their march, little benefit...
Σελίδα 50 - I am unwilling to enlarge upon a subject in which my feelings must be CHAP. stifled, or expressed at the risk of offence, which, with such an interest at stake, I should feel unwilling to excite, but this much I must say, that if the British army had been sent abroad for the express purpose of doing the utmost possible mischief to the Spanish cause, with the single exception of not firing a shot against their troops, they would, according to the measures now announced as about to be pursued, have...
Σελίδα 106 - Romana; and, if you judged it proper by a flank movement to join us in the neighbourhood of Astorga, I entertain a confident belief that, by occupying the strong ground behind it, we should be able to cover the country in our rear, and might wait until it is seen what efforts the Spanish nation is disposed and determined to make in defence of the national independence.
Σελίδα 98 - No coffin could be procured, and the officers of his staff wrapped the body, dressed as it was, in a military cloak and blankets. The interment was hastened : for about eight in the morning some firing was heard, and the officers feared that if a serious attack were made, they should be ordered away, and not suffered to pay...
Σελίδα 88 - ... a vast column of smoke and dust, shooting out fiery sparks from its sides, arose perpendicularly and slowly to a great height, and then a shower of stones, and fragments of all kinds, bursting out of it with a roaring sound, killed several persons who remained too near the spot. A stillness, only interrupted by the lashing of the waves on the shore, succeeded, and the business of the war went on.
Σελίδα 13 - Lisbon ; cover a country where there is a British interest; act as a diversion in favour of Spain, if the French detach a force against me; and am ready to return to the assistance of the Spaniards, should circumstances again render it eligible.
Σελίδα 274 - The garrison were to march out with the honours of war, and be sent prisoners into France, to be exchanged as soon as possible for an equal number of French prisoners then detained in Majorca and other places. None were to be considered prisoners but those who were ranked as soldiers ; the commissariat, intendants and medical staff were thus left at freedom.