 | Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - Great Britain - 1835 - 542 pages
...and eventually to oblige them to retire upon their own frontier. Time would be gained for the further organization of the Spanish Government and force ;...with the object of cutting them off from France, you might depend upon it that all France would rise as one man for their relief, and the result would be... | |
 | Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - Great Britain - 1835 - 548 pages
...and eventually to oblige them to retire upon their own frontier. Time would be gained for the further organization of the Spanish Government and force ;...with the object of cutting them off from France, you might depend upon it that all France would rise as one man for their relief, and the result would be... | |
 | sir James Edward Alexander - 1840 - 534 pages
...and eventually oblige them to retire upon their own frontier. Time would be gained for the further organization of the Spanish government and force ;...with the object of cutting them off from France, you might depend upon it that all France would rise as one man for their relief, and the result would be... | |
 | Basil Jackson - 1840 - 548 pages
...own frontier. Time would be gained for the further organization of the Spanish government and force As for preventing the retreat of the French from Spain,...less than forty passes by which troops could march. • *•••• " In respect to your wish that I should go into the Asturias to examine the country... | |
 | Basil Jackson, Charles Rochfort Scott - Great Britain - 1840 - 546 pages
...own frontier. Time would be gained for the further organization of the Spanish government and force As for preventing the retreat of the French from Spain,...less than forty passes by which troops could march. ****** " In respect to your wish that I should go into the Asturias to examine the country and form... | |
 | Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - Great Britain - 1842 - 1008 pages
...if I had been capable of performing it.' 253. To Viscount Ca»tlereagh. Zambujal, 5th Sept. 1808. ' As for preventing the retreat of the French from Spain,...Pyrenees, through which mountains there are not less than 40 passes by which troops could march. Besides, if it were possible under these circumstances to place... | |
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The result of all these operations, which must, for the present, be distinct, would be to confine the French to their line of the Ebro for the present, and eventually to oblige them to retire upon their own frontier. Time would be gained for the further... 