 ... mind cannot divest itself of feelings of abhorrence towards the individual who directed them ; or, otherwise, were the subject coolly and dispassionately considered, the censure would be equally divided between the aggressors, and the commander of...  Memoirs of the War in Spain, from 1808 to 1814 - Page 422by Louis-Gabriel Suchet (duc d'Albufera) - 1829Full view - About this book
 | Sir John Thomas Jones (bart.) - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1821 - 420 pages
...coolly and dispassionately considered, the censure would be equally divided between the aggressors and the commander of the suffering party. It is the...Saragossa, as for the assailants to avail themselves of the CHAP, power of retaliation which victory furnishes. It is no more than the custom of war justifies,... | |
 | Thomas Hamilton - 1829 - 488 pages
...between _the aggressors, and the commander of the suffering party. It is the paramount duty of every general to use every means in his power to bring his...similarly obstinate defences to those of Gerona and Zaragoza, as for the assailants to avail themselves of every power of retaliation which victory furnishes.... | |
 | Thomas Hamilton - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1831 - 316 pages
...between the aggressors, and the commander of the suffering party. It is the paramount duty of every general to use every means in his power to bring his...similarly obstinate defences to those of Gerona and Zaragoza, as for the assailants to avail themselves of every power of retaliation which victory furnishes.... | |
 | sir James Edward Alexander - 1840 - 620 pages
...between the aggressors and the commander of the suffering party. It is the paramount duty of every general to use every means in his power to bring his...preventing similarly obstinate defences to those of Girona and Saragossa, than for the assailants to avail themselves of every power of retaliation which... | |
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