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" England; or, if that should not be practicable, that I should remain without employment. You will hear from others of the various causes which I must have for being dissatisfied, not only with the military and other public measures of the Commander-in-Chief,... "
Memoirs and Correspondence of Viscount Castlereagh, Second Marquess of ... - Page 426
by Robert Stewart Castlereagh (Viscount) - 1851
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The Dispatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington, K. G. During His ...

Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - Great Britain - 1835 - 542 pages
...being dissatisfied, not only with the military and other public measures of the Commander in Chief, but with his treatment of myself. I am convinced it...returned ratified by Junot, but materially altered. I understand that we have not a sufficiency of the Tagus to give us a secure harbour ; we have not...
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The Dispatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington: During His ..., Volume 4

Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - Great Britain - 1835 - 548 pages
...being dissatisfied, not only with the military and other public measures of the Commander in Chief, but with his treatment of myself. I am convinced it...returned ratified by Junot, but materially altered. I understand that we have not a sufficiency of the Tagus to give us a secure harbour ; we have not...
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The military life of ... the duke of Wellington, by B. Jackson and ..., Volume 1

Basil Jackson - 1840 - 548 pages
...being dissatisfied, not only with the military and other public measures of the commander-in-chief, but with his treatment of myself. I am convinced it...should go away ; and the sooner I go the better." In replying to a letter from the Bishop of Oporto containing memoranda of certain points which his...
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The Military Life of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington, K.G. &c ...

Basil Jackson, Charles Rochfort Scott - Great Britain - 1840 - 546 pages
...being dissatisfied, not only with the military and other public measures of the Commander-in-chief, but with his treatment of myself. I am convinced it...should go away ; and the sooner I go the better." In replying to a letter from the Bishop of Oporto containing memoranda of certain points which his...
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Life of ... the duke of Wellington, Volume 1

sir James Edward Alexander - 1840 - 534 pages
...being dissatisfied, not only with the military and other public measures of the commander-in-chief, but with his treatment of myself. I am convinced it...should go away ; and the sooner I go the better." Here is fresh and irrefragable evidence of the lamentable want of every thing like conduct and decision...
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Selections from the Dispatches and General Orders of Field Marshall the Duke ...

Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - Great Britain - 1842 - 1008 pages
...being dissatisfied, not only with the military and other public measures of the Commander in Chief, but with his treatment of myself. I am convinced it...should go away ; and the sooner I go the better.' 255. To the Bishop of Oporto. Zambujal, 6th Sept. 1 MIS. ' I must inform your Lordship, that the battle...
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Life, Military and Civil, of the Duke of Wellington

William Hamilton Maxwell - Generals - 1852 - 562 pages
...complaining, with too much justice, of his treatment by the Commander-in-Chief, he goes on to say : " Since I wrote to you on the 30th, the Convention has...returned ratified by Junot, but materially altered. We have not a sufficiency of the Tagus to give us a secure harbour ; we have not got the navigation...
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The patriot warrior: an historical sketch of the life of the duke of ...

Mary Atkinson Maurice - 1853 - 322 pages
...being dissatisfied, not only with the military and other public measures of the commander-in-chief, but with his treatment of myself. I am convinced,...I should go away; and the sooner I go the better." * So little were those who had the command of the army, able to comprehend the grand views of Sir Arthur...
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Characteristics of the duke of Wellington, apart from his military talents

Thomas Philip De Grey (2nd earl.) - 1853 - 226 pages
...being dissatisfied, not only with the military and other public measures of the Commander-in-chief, but with his treatment of myself. I am convinced it...I should go away, and the sooner I go the better." He accordingly returned to England, and the inquiry into the Convention of Cintra took place. He was...
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The Wellington Memorial: Wellington, His Comrades and Contemporaries

Arthur Griffiths - 1897 - 462 pages
...being dissatisfied, not only with the military and other public measures of the commander-inchief, but with his treatment of myself. I am convinced it...should go away ; and the sooner I go the better." This friction, the want of harmony, the failure on the one hand to appreciate the great soldier at...
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