An Oration on the Character and Services of the Late Duke of Wellington: Delivered Before the British Residents of Boston and Vicinity, and Their American Friends, at the Melodeon, Nov. 10, 1852Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1853 - 46 σελίδες |
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An Oration on the Character and Services of the Late Duke of Wellington ... Melodeon (Boston,Mass ),George Payne Rainsford James Δεν υπάρχει διαθέσιμη προεπισκόπηση - 2016 |
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Σελίδα 39 - French nation will not allow them to be at peace, and is desirous of forcing them to submit to his yoke ; and they must not forget that the worst of the evils suffered by the enemy in his profligate invasion of Spain and Portugal have been occasioned by the irregularities of the soldiers, and their cruelties authorized and encouraged by their chiefs towards the unfortunate and peaceful inhabitants of the country.
Σελίδα 4 - Fell, but not fighting, in the fields of Kent ; The chief whose conduct in the lofty scene Where England stood up for the world in arms, Gave her victorious name to England's queen. But peaceful Britain knows, amid her grief She could spare now the soldier and his sword ; What can our councils do without our chief?
Σελίδα 39 - ... 5. To revenge this conduct on the peaceable inhabitants of France would be unmanly and unworthy of the nations to whom the Commander of the Forces now addresses himself...
Σελίδα 20 - I hope," said Wellesley, on the 30th, " to be able to strike a blow against their myriads of horse in a few days, if I should not be so unlucky as to have the Godavery become fordable about six weeks sooner than usual.
Σελίδα 18 - In my opinion, the extension of our territory and influence has been greater than our means. Besides, we have added to the number and the description of our enemies, by depriving of employment those who heretofore found it in the service of Tippoo and of the Nizam. Wherever we spread ourselves, particularly if we aggrandize ourselves at the expense of the Mahrattas, we increase this evil. We throw out of employment, and of means...
Σελίδα 19 - We throw out of employment and of means of subsistence, all who have hitherto managed the revenue, commanded or served in the armies, or have plundered the country. These people become additional enemies at the same time that by the extension of our territory our means of supporting our government and of defending ourselves are proportionably decreased.
Σελίδα 20 - ... your services will be required in your own districts; I have already put you on your guard. Since I wrote to you last, I have given the enemy a turn. By a few rapid marches to the southward, I have shown them that they could not go alone to Hyderabad, and I have consequently forced them to return to the northward.
Σελίδα 21 - ... the head of the pickets to reconnoitre, and found that he had been misinformed as to the enemy's cavalry having moved off. On ascending a rising ground he beheld the whole army of the confederates in his front encamped on the opposite bank of the Kaitna river near its junction with the Juahnullah. Their right, consisting entirely of cavalry, rested on the village of Bokerdun, and the line extended six miles to their left, consisting of infantry and artillery, in the direction of Assye. Their...