History of the War in the Peninsula, and in the South of France: From the Year 1807 to the Year 1814, Том 4Thomas and William Boone, 1867 |
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Agueda Alemtejo allies Almaraz Almeida Almendralejos Andalusia Aragon army of Portugal artillery Astorga Asturias attack Badajos Ballesteros batteries battle Beira besieged Blake breach bridge brigade British Burgos Cadiz castle Catalonia cavalry centre Ciudad Rodrigo Clausel columns command commenced communication convoy Cortes defeated defence detachment ditch dragoons Drouet Duero Ebro enemy enemy's England English Eroles Estremadura fell fight fire flank force fortress French army front Gallicians garrison Guadiana guns Hill horsemen hundred infantry Joseph king Lacy light division Lisbon lord lord Wellington Madrid Marmont menaced ment Merida military musketry Napoleon night officers operations orders partidas passed Peninsula Picurina Portugal Portuguese posts rear regency regiment reinforced retired retreat river road Saguntum Salamanca San Roque Sarsfield sent Seville side siege soldiers Soult Spain Spaniards Spanish squadron succour Suchet Tagus Taragona Tarifa thousand tion Tormes troops Truxillo Valencia Villa Campa Wellington wounded
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Стр. 149 - A few hours' delay, an accident, a turn of fortune, and he would have been foiled ! ay ! but this is war, always dangerous and uncertain, an everrolling wheel and armed with scythes.
Стр. 119 - At that word, such is the power of imagination, those troops whom neither the strong barrier, nor the deep ditch, nor the high walls, nor the deadly fire of the enemy could stop, staggered back appalled by a chimera of their own raising, and in this disorder a French reserve, under general Veillande, drove on them with a firm and rapid charge, and pitching some men over the walls, and killing others outright, again cleansed the ramparts even to the San Vincente.
Стр. 297 - I saw him late in the evening of that great day, when the advancing flashes of cannon and musketry, stretching as far as the eye could command, showed in the darkness how well the field was won ; he was alone, the flush of victory was on his brow, and his eyes were eager and watchful, but his voice was calm, and even gentle. More than the rival of Marlborough, since he had defeated greater warriors than Marlborough ever encountered, with a prescient pride he seemed only to accept this glory as an...
Стр. 116 - ... in dark groups, and leaning on their muskets, they looked up with sullen desperation at the Trinidad, while the enemy, stepping out on the ramparts, and aiming their shots by the light of the fire-balls which they threw over, asked, as their victims fell, ' Why they did not come into Badajos...
Стр. 86 - They must have twelve axes to cut down the gate by which the ditch is entered, at the junction of the counterscarp with the body of the place. The 5th regiment...
Стр. 115 - ... on both sides, and firmly fixed in ponderous beams, which were chained together and set deep in the ruins ; and for ten feet in front the ascent was covered with loose planks studded with sharp iron points, on which the feet of the foremost being set, the planks moved, and the unhappy soldiers, falling forward on the spikes, rolled down upon the ranks behind.
Стр. 120 - Now commenced that wild and desperate wickedness which tarnished the lustre of the soldier's heroism. All indeed were not alike, for hundreds risked and many lost their lives in striving to stop the violence ; but the madness generally prevailed, and as the worst men were leaders here, all the dreadful passions of human nature were displayed. Shameless rapacity, brutal intemperance, savage lust, cruelty and murder, shrieks and...
Стр. 88 - O'Toole's attack was also successful, and at the other side of the town Pack's Portuguese, meeting no resistance, had entered the place, and the reserves also came in. Then throwing off the restraints of discipline the troops committed frightful excesses. The town was fired in three or four places, the soldiers menaced their officers, and shot each other ; many were killed in the market-place, intoxication soon increased the tumult...
Стр. 114 - Trinidad, the two divisions got mixed, and the reserves, which should have remained at the quarries, also came pouring in, until the ditch was quite filled, the rear still crowding forward, and all cheering vehemently. The enemy's shouts also were loud and terrible, and the bursting of shells and of grenades, the roaring of...
Стр. 416 - But whatever failures there were, and however imposing the height to which the English general's reputation has since attained, this campaign, including the sieges of...