Memoirs of British Generals Distinguished During the Peninsular War, Volume 1R. Bentley, 1856 |
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Memoirs of British Generals Distinguished During the Peninsular War, Volume 1 John William Cole Visualização integral - 1856 |
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4th division action Albuera allies amongst Anglesea arms arrived artillery attack battalions battle battle of Albuera Beresford bridge brigade Brigadier-General British army Buenos Ayres campaign cavalry Ciudad Rodrigo close Colonel columns command commander-in-chief commenced corps Corunna Craufurd despatch Duke duty embarked enemy enemy's England English expedition favourable fell field fighting fire flank force fought fourth division French front Fusilier gallant ground guns Hardinge honour horse hundred infantry Lieutenant light division Lord Paget Lord Uxbridge Lord Wellington loss Major-General Marmont Marquess Marshal Marshal Soult Massena military Moore's morning movement Napier Napoleon obtained officers operations orders Portugal Portuguese position prisoners rank rear received regiment retire retreat returned ROBERT CRAUFURD Salamanca siege Sir David Baird Sir Home Popham Sir John Moore Sir Lowry Cole Sir William Beresford soldiers Soult Spaniards Spanish thousand tion took troops victory Wellesley wounded
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Página iii - How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.
Página 312 - ... carried our Arapiles, or he would have confined us entirely to our position. This was not to be endured, and we fell upon him, turning his left flank; and I never saw an army receive such a beating.
Página 53 - 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.
Página 312 - Marmont ought to have given me a pont (f or, and he would have made a handsome operation of it. But instead of that, after manoeuvring all the morning in the usual French style, nobody knew with what object, he at last pressed upon my right in such a manner, at the same time without engaging, that he would have cither carried our Arapiles, or he would have confined us entirely to our position.
Página 57 - In the school of regimental duty he obtained that correct knowledge of his profession so essential to the proper direction of the gallant spirit of the soldier ; and he was enabled to establish a characteristic order and regularity of conduct, because the troops found in their leader a striking example of the discipline which he enforced on others. Having risen to command, he signalized his name in the West Indies, in Holland, and in Egypt.
Página 58 - During the season of repose, his time was devoted to the care and instruction of the officer and soldier; in war, he courted service in every quarter of the globe. Regardless of personal considerations, he esteemed that to which his country called him, the post of honour ; and by his undaunted spirit, and unconquerable perseverance, he pointed the way to victory. " His country, the object of his latest solicitude...
Página 107 - The warlike dead of every age, Who fill the fair recording page, Shall leave their sainted rest. And, half reclining on his spear, Each wondering chief by turns appear, To hail the blooming guest.
Página 219 - THERE is a tear for all that die, A mourner o'er the humblest grave ; But nations swell the funeral cry, And Triumph weeps above the brave. For them is Sorrow's purest sigh O'er Ocean's heaving bosom sent : In vain their bones unburied lie, All earth becomes their monument ! A tomb is theirs on every page, An epitaph on every tongue : The present hours, the future age, For them bewail, to them belong.
Página 132 - Guards carried all before them, and whilst I exculpate my own regiment, I am delighted in being able to bear testimony to the gallant conduct of the former. Be not uneasy, my brother officers ; you had ample opportunity, of which you gallantly availed yourselves, of avenging yourselves on the 18th for the failure on the 17th ; and after all, what regiment, or which of us, is certain of success ? " Be assured that I am proud of being your Colonel, and that you possess my utmost confidence. " Your...
Página 202 - ... rout. He retired after the battle to the ground he had been previously on, but occupying it in position ; and on this morning, or rather during the night, commenced his retreat on the road he came, towards Seville, and has abandoned Badajoz to its fate.