History of the War in the Peninsula, and in the South of France: From the Year 1807 to the Year 1814, Volume 1[T.and W.] Boone, 1867 |
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Abrantes affairs Alemtejo Almeida Andalusia Andujar arms arrived artillery Asturians attack Barcelona battalions battle Baylen Bayonne Bessières Blake brigade British army Burgos Cadiz Castaños Castille Catalonia cavalry centre colonel columns command commenced communication convention corps Coruña Cuesta defeat defence detachment division Duhesme Dupont Ebro Elvas emperor enemy England English fight five thousand flank fleet force France French army Gallicia garrison guard guns hundred insurgents insurrection Junot junta Kellerman Laborde latter Lefebre Lisbon Logroño Loison lord Madrid Mengibar miles military ministers Moncey Mondego Moore's movement Napoleon nation occupied officers operations Oporto Palafox passed patriots peasants Peninsula Portugal Portuguese position provinces rear Reding regiment reinforced retreat river road sent Seville sir Arthur sir Harry Burrard sir Hew Dalrymple sir John Moore soldiers somatenes Spain Spaniards Spanish armies Spencer Tagus Thiebault thousand infantry tion Torres Vedras town troops Tudela Valencia Vedel victory Vimiero Zaragoza
Popular passages
Page 207 - after triumphing on the banks of the Danube and the Vistula, with rapid steps you have passed through Germany. This day, without a moment of repose, I command you to traverse France. Soldiers, I have need of you. The hideous presence of the leopard contaminates the peninsula of Spain and Portugal. In terror he must fly before you. Let us bear our triumphant eagles to the Pillars of Hercules : there also we have injuries to avenge.
Page 332 - Several times he caused his attendants to stop and turn him round, that he might behold the field of battle, and when the firing indicated the advance of the British, he discovered his satisfaction, and permitted the bearers to proceed.
Page 332 - His countenance continued firm and his thoughts clear; once only, when he spoke of his mother, he became agitated; but he often inquired after the safety of his friends, and the officers of his staff, and he did not, even in this moment, forget to recommend those whose merit had given them claims to promotion.
Page 467 - Almeida at Oporto, or the nearest harbour. They will be accompanied on their march by British commissaries, charged with providing for their subsistence and accommodation.
Page 331 - French were still the most numerous, their ground strong, and their disorder facilitated the original plan of embarking during the night. Hope, upon whom the command had devolved, resolved therefore, to ship the army, and so complete were the arrangements, that no confusion or difficulty occurred; the...
Page 207 - We unite in entreating your Majesty to listen to the voice of humanity, silencing that of the passions ; to seek, with the intention of arriving at that object, to conciliate all interests, and by that means to preserve all the powers which exist, and to ensure the happiness of Europe and of this generation, at the head of which Providence has placed us.
Page 330 - Hardinge, a staff officer, who was near, attempted to take it off, but the dying man stopped him, saying, "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.
Page xvii - When an English force took the field, the Spaniards ceased to act as principals in a contest carried on in the heart of their country, and involving their existence as an independent nation. They were self-sufficient and their pride was wounded by insult, they were superstitious and their religious feelings were roused to fanatic fury by an allpowerful clergy who feared to lose their own rich endowments, but after the first burst of indignation the cause of independence created little enthusiasm.
Page 466 - The French army shall carry with it all its artillery, of French calibre, with the horses belonging to it, and the tumbrils supplied with sixty rounds per gun.
Page 468 - In either case their nroperty is guaranteed to them ; with the liberty of retaining or of disposing of it, and passing the produce of the sale thereof into France, or any other country where they may fix their residence ; the space of one year being allowed them for that purpose.