 | 1830 - عدد الصفحات: 1016
...Moore to have been utterly broken and subdued, but because it was considered * necessary to risk the army, to convince the people of England, as well as...Spaniards had neither the power nor the inclination to mako any effort for themselves !'" But to return for a moment to the subject of the separation of the... | |
 | 1830 - عدد الصفحات: 1006
...and subdued, but because it was considered ' necessary to risk the army, to con i-iiic« the peopleof England, as well as the rest of Europe, that the Spaniards...the inclination to make any efforts for themselves !' " But to return for a moment to the subject of the separation of the artillery, Napier clearly proves,... | |
 | Thomas Hamilton - 1831 - عدد الصفحات: 254
...Moore to have been utterly broken and subdued, but because it was considered " necessary to risk the army, to convince the people of England, as well as...the inclination to make any efforts for themselves .'" Such was the object, for the attainment of which Jan.] CAMPAIGN OF SIR JOHN MOORE. 75 alone, the... | |
 | George Robert Gleig - 1832 - عدد الصفحات: 422
...random stroke delivered by a man who avows, in one of his letters, " that it was necessary to risk the army, to convince the people of England, as well as...the inclination to make any efforts for themselves? " For what was to be gained, even by victory ? Not even the opportunity of retreating at a diminished... | |
 | 1831 - عدد الصفحات: 318
...maintain the reputation of the British troops. "It was necessary to risk the army," were his words, " to convince the people of England, as well as the...the inclination to make any efforts for themselves. With respect to the cause, it will probably have no effect. Even if I beat Marshal Soult, it will be... | |
 | 1811 - عدد الصفحات: 1008
...had the British been niibdrawn, the loss of the cause would have been imputed to their retreat, aud it was necessary to risk this army to convince the...Spaniards had neither the power nor the inclination to mike any efforts for themselves, llwai for this reason that I made the march to Sahagun. As a diversion... | |
 | Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - 1862 - عدد الصفحات: 590
...indifference of the Spaniards would never have been believed ; that had the British been withdrawn, the loss of the cause would have been imputed to their...people of England, as well as the rest of Europe, that *.h» Spaniards had neither the power nor the inclination to make any effort* for themselves. It was... | |
 | Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - 1862 - عدد الصفحات: 590
...indifference of the Spaniards would never have been believed ; that had the British been withdrawn, the loss of the cause would have been imputed to their...people of England, as well as the rest of Europe, that *.h« Spaniards had neither the power nor the inclination to make any efforts for themselves. It was... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1864 - عدد الصفحات: 630
...indifference of the Spaniards would never have been believed ; that, had the British been withdrawn, the loss of the cause would have been imputed to their...the inclination to make any efforts for themselves.' Acting upon this erroneous principle, as it seems to us, though the plea is admitted by Sir William... | |
 | Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - 1867 - عدد الصفحات: 580
...indifference of the Spaniards would never have been believed; that had the British been withdrawn, the loss of the cause would have been imputed to their...risk this army to convince the people of England, aa well as the rest of Europe, that the Spaniards had neither the power nor the inclination to make... | |
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I was sensible, however, that the apathy and indifference of the Spaniards would never have been believed; that had the British been withdrawn, the loss of the cause would have been imputed to their retreat; and it was necessary to risk this army to convince... 
