Wellington's Welsh General: A Life of Sir Thomas PictonAurum Press, 1996 - Всего страниц: 279 A life of Welsh general Sir Thomas Picton, who served under Wellington and played a major part in the Peninsular campaign. Draws upon quotations from other veterans of the campaign and Picton's own letters in the National Library of Wales to chart a career marked by scandal and public controversy. |
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... success will in great measure depend upon the previous steps which I may take to secure it . A subordinate expedition might be undertaken from Trinidad , with five or six hundred men , up the River Guarapiche , which would essentially ...
... success will in great measure depend upon the previous steps which I may take to secure it . A subordinate expedition might be undertaken from Trinidad , with five or six hundred men , up the River Guarapiche , which would essentially ...
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... success before they would have been joined by the 8th corps , which were never farther from them than León . There would then have been 57,000 men against 25,000 ; and whatever might have been my first success , I must have retired with ...
... success before they would have been joined by the 8th corps , which were never farther from them than León . There would then have been 57,000 men against 25,000 ; and whatever might have been my first success , I must have retired with ...
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... successes . I am concerned that I cannot say anything to keep up so pleasant a delusion . ' He felt bound to point ... success the Spanish freebooters enjoyed in harassing the French was offset by their tendency to alienate the locals ...
... successes . I am concerned that I cannot say anything to keep up so pleasant a delusion . ' He felt bound to point ... success the Spanish freebooters enjoyed in harassing the French was offset by their tendency to alienate the locals ...
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