The Dispatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington, K. G. During His Various Campaigns in India, Denmark, Portugal, Spain, the Low Countries, and France: Peninsula, 1809-1813J. Murray, 1835 |
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20th light dragoons Abrantes Admiral Alberche Alcantara ammunition arrangements arrived artillery assistance attack August battalion Believe brigade British army British troops Captain Castello Branco cavalry Coimbra Colonel Murray Commander in Chief Commissary communication Cuesta DEAR SIR DEAR VILLIERS desire detachment dispatch embarked enclose enemy enemy's England force French army French corps Galicia Government honor horses infantry J. H. Frere John Villiers join July June Junot Junta landed Leyria Lieut Lisbon LORD Lordship Majesty's Marshal Beresford Mondego morning move mules neighbourhood northward O'Donoju obliged officers operations opinion Oporto Plasencia Portugal Portuguese army Portuguese troops position proposed Quarter Master Ramalhal received your letter regiment respecting retreat Right road Santarem Secretary sent ships Sir Arthur Wellesley Sir Harry Burrard Sir Hew Dalrymple Sir John Moore's soon Soult Spain Spanish army supply Tagus Talavera to-morrow Torres Vedras transports Vimieiro Viscount Castlereagh yesterday
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الصفحة 383 - Lestrade, and I shall be very much obliged to you if you will let me hear of any fresh, developments of so singular a chain of events.
الصفحة 100 - In short, in ten days after the action of the 21st, we are not farther advanced, or indeed, as I believe, so far advanced as we should and ought to have been on the night of the 21st. I assure you, my dear Lord, matters are not prospering here ; and I feel an earnest desire to quit the army. I have been too successful with this army ever to serve with it in a subordinate situation with satisfaction to the person who shall command it, and, of course, not to myself. However, I shall do whatever the...
الصفحة 334 - The army behave terribly ill ; they are a rabble, who cannot bear success any more than Sir John Moore's army could bear failure.
الصفحة 96 - Commanderin-Chief may judge it unnecessary to embark. In like manner, all individuals of the army shall be at liberty to dispose of their private property of every description ; with full security hereafter for the purchasers.
الصفحة 97 - France shall have disembarked it in the harbours specified, or in any other of the ports of France to which stress of weather may force them, every facility shall be given them to return to England without delay ; and security against capture until their arrival in a friendly port. ART.
الصفحة 490 - Shortly after the repulse of this general attack, in which, apparently, all the enemy's troops were employed, he commenced his retreat across the Alberche, which was conducted in the most regular order, and was effected during the night, leaving in our hands twenty ' pieces of cannon, ammunition, tumbrils, and some prisoners.
الصفحة 78 - Craufurd's brigade and the Portuguese troops, in two lines, advanced along the height on the left. In the advance of MajorGeneral Ferguson's brigade six pieces of cannon were taken from the enemy, with many prisoners, and vast numbers were killed and wounded.
الصفحة 61 - CEbidos, from whence the enemy's piquets had been driven on the 15th; and from that time he had posts in the hills on both sides of the valley, as well as in the plain in front of his army, which was posted on the...
الصفحة 77 - On the right of the position they were repulsed by the bayonets of the 97th regiment, which corps was successfully supported by the 2d battalion 52d regiment, which, by an advance in column, took the enemy in flank.
الصفحة 419 - Bishop, &c., and I shall be very much obliged to you if you will send me any papers you have in the handwriting of either of those persons or their secretaries, &c.
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| العنوان | The Dispatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington, K. G. During His Various Campaigns in India, Denmark, Portugal, Spain, the Low Countries, and France: Peninsula, 1809-1813 المجلد 4 من The Dispatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington, K. G. During His Various Campaigns in India, Denmark, Portugal, Spain, the Low Countries, and France: From 1799 to 1818, Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington |
| المؤلف | Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington |
| قام بجمع الكتاب | John Gurwood |
| الناشر | J. Murray, 1835 |
| أصلي من | مكتبة نيويورك العامة |
| الكتب ذات التنسيق الرقمي | 6 نيسان (إبريل) 2007 |
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