History of the War in the Peninsula, and in the South of France, from the Year 1807 to the Year 1814, Том 5T. & W. Boone, 1836 |
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allies Almaraz Andalusia Arapiles army of Portugal artillery Astorga attack Badajos battle battle of Salamanca BOOK bridge brigade British Burgos Cadiz Caffarelli castle Catalonia cavalry centre CHAP Ciudad Rodrigo Clauzel colonel column command convoy defence detachments dragoons Drouet Duero enemy enemy's England English Estremadura fifth division fight fire flank force fords Foy's French army front Gallicians garrison Guadarama Guarena guns Hill horsemen hundred infantry Joseph July king king's Lerida letter light division Lisbon lord Wellesley lord Wellington lord William Bentinck Madrid Marmont Meanwhile menaced military ministers movement Napoleon night officers operations orders Partidas passed Peninsula Perceval Picton Pisuerga Portugal Portuguese position reached rear regiment reinforced retreat river road Salamanca sent siege soldiers Souham Soult Spain Spaniards Spanish squadron succour Suchet Tagus third division thousand tion Tormes Toro troops Valencia Villa Campa village wounded XVII XVIII
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Стр. 154 - ... power, and the third division followed at speed, shouting as the French masses fell in succession before this dreadful charge. Nor were these valiant swordsmen yet exhausted. Their own general, Le Marchant, and many officers had fallen, but Cotton and all his staff was at their head, and with ranks confused, and blended together in one mass, still galloping forward they sustained from a fresh column an irregular stream of fire which emptied a hundred saddles ; yet with fine courage, and downright...
Стр. 194 - 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 generals than Marlborough ever encountered, with a prescient pride he seemed only to accept this glory as an earnest...
Стр. 161 - ... anon darting upwards in one vast pyramid, the apex of which often approached, yet never gained the actual summit of the mountain ; but the French musketry, rapid as lightning, sparkled along the brow of the height, with unvarying fulness, and with...
Стр. lxxix - Henry Wellesley, who acted for, and on behalf of, the Treasury; that upon a recent question of the last importance, when Mr. Dick had determined to vote according to his conscience, the noble lord, Castlereagh, did intimate to that gentleman the necessity of either his voting with the government, or resigning his scat in that house : and that Mr.
Стр. 155 - ... sustained from a fresh column an irregular stream of fire which emptied a hundred saddles ; yet with fine courage, and downright force, the survivors broke through this the third and strongest body of men that had encountered them, and Lord Edward Somerset, continuing his course at the head of one squadron, with a happy perseverance captured five guns. The French left was entirely broken, more than two thousand prisoners were taken, the French light horsemen abandoned that part of the field,...
Стр. xliv - ... but they were received with a rolling musketry, driven back with loss, and resumed their movement through the streets. At last the breaches were abandoned by the French, other parties entered the place, desultory combats took place in various parts, and finally...
Стр. 585 - If Admiral Napier be not distinguished by the common-place facilities of authorship, he possesses the higher qualities of truth, discretion, and clear-sightedness, in no slight degree.
Стр. xxiv - Horse to ride, and weapon to wear; But rats and mice, and such small deer, Have been Tom's food for seven long year.
Стр. lxxiii - ... governors which confines licensed importations from ports of the United States to the ports of the Eastern States exclusively. The Government of Great Britain had already introduced into her commerce during war a system which, at once violating the rights of other nations and resting on a mass of forgery and perjury unknown to other times, was making an unfortunate progress in undermining those principles of morality and religion which are the best foundation of national happiness. The...
Стр. 371 - ... not likely to be successful. ' My opinion is, that there is nobody in Portugal possessed of capital, who entertains or who ought to entertain such an opinion of the state of affairs in the Peninsula, as to lay out his money in the purchase of the lands of the Crown.