 | Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - Great Britain - 1835 - 542 pages
...bring disgrace upon me, and would disappoint you. ' Under these circumstances, I have told Sir Hew Dalrymple that I was not able to perform the duty...appeared to think that some of the gentlemen of the Quarter Master General's department might be more usefully employed on this service. I hope you will... | |
 | Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - Great Britain - 1835 - 548 pages
...bring disgrace upon me, and would disappoint you. ' Under these circumstances, I have told Sir Hew Dalrymple that I was not able to perform the duty...appeared to think that some of the gentlemen of the Quarter Master General's department might be more usefully employed on this service. I hope you will... | |
 | sir James Edward Alexander - 1840 - 534 pages
...bring disgrace upon me, and would disappoint you. " Under these circumstances, I have told Sir Hew Dalrymple that I was not able to perform the duty...appeared to think that some of the gentlemen of the quartermaster-general's department might be more usefully employed on this service. I hope you will... | |
 | Basil Jackson - 1840 - 548 pages
...country which would depend upon the execution of another Under these circumstances I have told Sir Hew Dalrymple that I was not able to perform the duty...describe in writing such a country as the Asturias I hope you will not believe that I feel any disinclination to performing any service in which you may... | |
 | Basil Jackson, Charles Rochfort Scott - Great Britain - 1840 - 546 pages
...country which would depend upon the execution of another Under these circumstances I have told Sir Hew Dalrymple that I was not able to perform the duty...describe in writing such a country as the Asturias I hope you will not believe that I feel any disinclination to performing any service in which you may... | |
 | Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - Great Britain - 1842 - 1008 pages
...only bring disgrace upon me, and would disappoint you. Under these circumstances, I have told Sir Hew Dalrymple that I was not able to perform the duty...appeared to think that some of the gentlemen of the Quarter Master General's department might be more usefully employed on this service. I hope you will... | |
 | Arthur Wellesley (1st duke of Wellington.), Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - 1852 - 204 pages
...draughtsman, and hut a bad hand at description. ... I have told Sir Hew Dalrymple that I was not ahle to perform the duty in which you had desired I should...describe in writing such a country as the Asturias. It would seem that both the old generals who appeared so inopportunely at the scene of action, resented... | |
 | Earl Frederick Sleigh Roberts Roberts - Generals - 1895 - 232 pages
...against a French invasion. Wellesley declined this mission, pointing out to Sir Hew Dalrymple that he was not a topographical engineer, and could not pretend...describe in writing such a country as the Asturias. Sir Hew Dalrymple apparently accepted this as a valid excuse, for he suggested that officers of the... | |
 | 1895 - 748 pages
...of defending them against a French invasion. Wellesley declined this mission, pointing out that he was not a topographical engineer, and could not pretend...describe in writing such a country as the Asturias. He suggested that officers of the QuartermasterGeneral's department might more fittingly be employed... | |
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Under these circumstances, I have told Sir Hew Dalrymple that I was not able to perform the duty in which you had desired I should be employed ; that I was not a topographical engineer, and could not pretend to describe in writing such a country as the... 