History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France: From the Year 1807 to the Year 1814, المجلد 1Meline, Cans and Company and for G. Pratt, 1839 |
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عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
Abrantes affairs Alemtejo Almeida Appendix arms arrived artillery Astorga Asturias attack Baird battalions battle Beresford Bessières Blake bridge brigade British army Burgos Cadiz campaign Castaños Catalonia cavalry centre Ciudad Rodrigo colonel columns command commenced communication Coruña Cuesta defeat defence despatch detachment division Duero duke Dupont Ebro emperor enemy enemy's English army errour flank force fourth corps France French army Frere front Gallicia garrison général guard guns hundred insurrection John Moore's Junot junta latter Lisbon Logroño Loison lord Madrid marshal military Moncey movement Napoleon occupied officers operations Oporto orders Palafox passed Portugal Portuguese position provinces re-enforced rear regiments retired retreat river road Romana Salamanca sent Seville side sir Arthur Wellesley sir Hew Dalrymple sir John Cradock sir John Moore soldiers Soult Spain Spaniards Spanish armies Tagus Talavera thousand infantry tion town troops Tudela valley Victor Villa Zaragoza
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 316 - I hope the people of England will be satisfied!" "I hope my country will do me justice!
الصفحة 649 - 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, and...
الصفحة 281 - I certainly at first did feel, and expressed much indignation at a person like him, being made the channel of a communication of that sort from you to me. Those feelings are at an end ; and I dare say they never will be excited towards you again. If Mr.
الصفحة 311 - The late arrival of the transports, the increasing force of the enemy, and the disadvantageous nature of the ground had greatly augmented the difficulty and danger of the embarkation, and several general officers now proposed to the commander-in-chief, that he should negotiate for leave to retire to his ships upon terms. There was little chance of such a proposal being agreed to by the enemy, and there was no reason to try.
الصفحة 314 - It is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me;" — and in that manner, so becoming to a soldier, Moore was borne from the fight.
الصفحة 312 - Dalmatia made no idle evolutions of display, for distributing his lighter guns along the front of his position, he opened a fire from the heavy battery on his left, and instantly descended the mountain with three columns, covered by clouds of skirmishers. The British pickets were driven back in disorder, and the village of Elvina was carried by the first French column, which then, dividing, attempted to turn Baird's right by the valley, and to break his front at the same time.
الصفحة 311 - ... melancholy but graceful termination to the campaign. About two o'clock in the afternoon a general movement along the French line gave notice of an approaching battle, and the British infantry, fourteen thousand five hundred strong immediately occupied the inferior range of hills already spoken of.
الصفحة 317 - ... long and arduous retreat with sagacity, intelligence, and fortitude ; no insult disturbed, no falsehood deceived him, no remonstrance shook his determination ; fortune frowned, without subduing his constancy ; death struck, but the spirit of the man remained unbroken, when his shattered body scarcely afforded it a habitation. Having done all that was just towards others, he remembered what was due to himself ; neither the shock of the mortal blow, nor the lingering hours of acute pain which preceded...
الصفحة 309 - ... there ensued a crash like the bursting forth of a volcano, the earth trembled for miles, the rocks were torn from their bases, and the agitated waters rolled the vessels as in a storm; a vast column of smoke and dust, shooting out fiery sparks from its sides, arose perpendicularly and slowly to a great height, and then a shower of stones, and fragments of all kinds, bursting out of it with a roaring sound, killed several persons who remained too near the spot.
الصفحة 252 - ... if not the greater part of the army itself, might have been lost. The movements of the enemy showed that they expected this, and, as they themselves acknowledged, they were prepared to cut off our retreat in that direction. I therefore concentrated all our forces on the right bank of the river. During the night of the 26th and morning of the 27th, all our wagons, heavy guns, &c., were gathered there.