Wellington's Operations in the Peninsula (1808-1814)T. Fisher Unwin, 1904 |
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Συχνά εμφανιζόμενοι όροι και φράσεις
1st Batt 1st Division 2nd Batt 2nd Corps 2nd Division 4th Division 6th Corps Abrantes advance Alemtejo Allies Almeida Andalusia Army Corps arrival Artillery attack Badajoz battalions Battery battle Beresford Bessières bridge British Army British Commander Burgos Cadiz campaign Catalonia Cavalry Cavalry Brigade centre Ciudad Rodrigo Coimbra Colonel columns Company 60th Corunna Crauford crossed Cuesta defence despatched detached Douro Emperor enemy enemy's England flank force France French Army front Galicia garrison Government Guadiana Guards guns Hill horses Infantry Junot Junta letter Light Division line of retreat Lisbon Loison Lord Madrid Major-General Marshal Masséna miles military Militia Mondego mountains Napier Napoleon numbers occupied officers Olivenza operations Oporto Paget Peninsula Portugal Portuguese position rear rearguard regiments Regt reinforced retired Reynier right bank river road Santarem Sebastiani sent Sir Arthur Sir John Moore soldiers Soult Spain Spaniards Spanish squadrons Tagus Talavera Torres Vedras Victor Wellesley Wellesley's Wellington
Δημοφιλή αποσπάσματα
Σελίδα 408 - In vain did Soult, by voice and gesture, animate his Frenchmen ; in vain did the hardiest veterans, extricating themselves from the crowded columns, sacrifice their lives to gain time for the mass to open out on such a fair field ; in vain did the mass itself bear up, and fiercely striving, fire indiscriminately upon friends and foes, while the horsemen hovering on the Hank threatened to charge the advancing line.
Σελίδα 364 - French government were relieved from the pressure of military operations on the continent, they would incur all risks to land an army in His Majesty's dominions; then, indeed, would commence an expensive contest; then would His Majesty's subjects discover what are the miseries of war, of which, by the blessing of God, they have hitherto had no knowledge; and the cultivation, the beauty, and prosperity of the country, and the virtue and happiness of its inhabitants, would be destroyed, whatever might...
Σελίδα 408 - Nothing could stop that astonishing infantry. No sudden burst of undisciplined valour, no nervous enthusiasm weakened the stability of their order, their flashing eyes were bent on the dark columns in their front, their measured tread shook the ground, their dreadful volleys swept away the head of every formation, their deafening shouts overpowered the dissonant cries that broke from all parts of the tumultuous crowd, as slowly and with a horrid carnage it was pushed by the incessant vigour of the...
Σελίδα 121 - He came at speed, and pulled up so sharp and close he seemed to have alighted from the air; man and horse looking at the approaching foe with an intenseness that seemed to concentrate all feeling in their eyes. The sudden stop of the animal, a cream-coloured one with black tail and mane, had cast the latter streaming forward, its ears were pushed out like horns, while its eyes flashed fire, and it snorted loudly with expanded nostrils, expressing...
Σελίδα 172 - The army behave terribly ill ; they are a rabble, who cannot bear success any more than Sir John Moore's army could bear failure.
Σελίδα 121 - ... thus bending the General forward almost to its neck, but his head was thrown back and his look more keenly piercing than I ever before saw it. He glanced to the right and left, and then fixed his eyes intently on the enemy's advancing column, at the same time grasping the reins with both his hands, and pressing the horse firmly with his knees; his body thus seemed to deal with the animal while his mind was intent on the enemy, and his aspect was one of searching intenseness beyond the power of...
Σελίδα 171 - It is obvious, however, that if an army throws away all its cannon, equipments, and baggage, and everything which can strengthen it and can enable it to act together as a body, and abandons all those who are entitled to its protection, but add to its weight and impede its progress, it must be able to march by roads through which it cannot be followed with any prospect of being overtaken by an army which has not made the same sacrifices.
Σελίδα 351 - Drouet had had his head-quarters, shared the same fate, and there is not an inhabitant of the country of any class or description, who has had any dealing or communication with the French army, who has not had reason to repent of it, and to complain of them.
Σελίδα 407 - Such a gallant line, issuing from the midst of the smoke, and rapidly separating itself from the confused and broken multitude, startled the enemy's heavy masses, which were increasing and pressing onwards as to an assured victory ; they wavered, hesitated, and then vomiting forth a storm of fire, hastily endeavoured to enlarge their front, while a fearful discharge of grape from all their artillery whistled through the British ranks.
Σελίδα 211 - ... although they have been engaged for two days, and have defeated twice their numbers, in the service of Spain, have not bread to eat. It is positively a fact...