A History of the Peninsular War, المجلد 1Clarendon Press, 1902 |
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
2nd batt 3rd batt Andalusia Andujar Aragon arms arrived Arteche artillery Astorga Asturias attack Barcelona battalions batteries battle Baylen bayonets Bayonne Bessières Blake Bonaparte brigade British army Burgos campaign Captain-General Castaños Catalonia cavalry Charles Charles IV Chasseurs column command Cordova corps Corresp Corunna Cuesta Dalrymple defence defile detached dispatch ditto division Dragoons Duhesme Dupont Ebro Emperor enemy English Estremadura Ferdinand fight flank force forward four batts France French army front Galicia garrison Godoy Guard guns hand horse infantry insurrection Junot Junta King La Romana Lefebvre Léger levies Lisbon Madrid miles military Moncey Moore Moore's mountains Murat Napier Napoleon officers Old Castile orders Palafox passes Peninsula Peninsular War Portugal Portuguese position Prince provinces provisional regiments Pyrenees rear Reding reserve retreat road Salamanca Saragossa sent Seville Soult Spain Spaniards Spanish army squadrons Swiss Tagus three batts Total Tudela Valencia Vedel Vimiero Wellesley whole
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 602 - ... reputation for talent, and confirmed his character as a stern enemy to vice, a steadfast friend to merit, a just and faithful servant of his country. The honest loved him, the dishonest feared him; for while he lived he did not shun, but scorned and spurned the base, and, with characteristic propriety, they spurned at him when he was dead.
الصفحة 617 - Votre Altesse Royale avait bien des torts : je n'en veux pour preuve que la lettre qu'elle m'a écrite, et que j'ai constamment voulu ignorer. Roi à son tour , elle saura combien les droits du trône sont sacrés. Toute démarche près d'un souverain étranger, de la part d'un prince héréditaire, est criminelle.
الصفحة 616 - Protesto y declaro que todo lo que manifiesto en mi decreto del 19 de Marzo, abdicando la corona en mi hijo, fue forzado, por precaver mayores males y la efusión de sangre de mis queridos vasallos, y por tanto de ningún valor. — Yo EL REY. — Aranjuez, 21 de Marzo de 1808.
الصفحة 602 - Thus ended the career of sir John Moore, a man whose uncommon capacity was sustained by the purest virtue, and governed by a disinterested patriotism more in keeping with the primitive than the luxurious age of a great nation.
الصفحة 617 - VAR connaît ma pensée tout entière ; elle voit que je flotte entre diverses idées qui ont besoin d'être fixées. Elle peut être certaine que, dans tous les cas , je me comporterai avec elle comme envers le roi son père. Qu'elle croie à mon désir de tout concilier, et de trouver des occasions de lui donner des preuves de mon affection et de ma parfaite estime.
الصفحة 628 - The officer of the British army shall be restored on the completion of the articles which concern the army ; and the officer of the navy on the disembarkation of the French troops in their own country. The like is to take place on the part of the French army.
الصفحة 625 - The French army shall carry with it all its equipments, and all that is comprehended under the name of property of the army ; that is to say its military chest...
الصفحة 627 - Their property of every kind, moveable and immoveable, shall be respected, and they shall be at liberty either to accompany the French army or to remain in Portugal.
الصفحة 599 - I can say generally, that the frontier of Portugal is not defensible against a superior force. It is an open frontier, all equally rugged, but all equally to be penetrated.
الصفحة 606 - La voz de la naturaleza desarma el brazo de la ven»ganza, y cuando la inadvertencia reclama la piedad, no »puede negarse á ello un padre amoroso. Mi hijo ha decla»rado ya los autores del plan horrible que le habían hecho »concebir unos malvados: todo lo ha manifestado en for»ma de derecho, y todo consta con la escrupulosidad que »exige la ley en tales pruebas; su arrepentimiento y asom"bro le han dictado las representaciones...