History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France: From the Year 1807 to the Year 1814, Volume 2Meline, Cans and Company and for G. Pratt, 1839 - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 |
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Abrantes Agueda Albuera Alemtejo allies Almeida Ampurdan Andalusia Aragon arms arrived artillery attack Badajoz Ballesteros Barcelona Barosa battalions batteries battle Beresford besiegers Blake breach bridge brigade British Cadiz Campo Verde captain castle Catalonia cavalry centre Ciudad Rodrigo colonel columns command commenced communication convoy corps cortez defeated defence detachment dragoons duke Ebro Elvas enemy enemy's English errour Estramadura fire flank force fortress French army front Gallicia garrison général Gerona Guadiana guard guns Hill hundred junta l'armée l'empereur latter Lerida light division Lisbon lord Wellington Madrid maréchal Marmont Massena Meanwhile Mequinenza military Mondego Morena mountains movement night officers operations orders partidas passed Peninsula Portugal Portuguese position prince province qu'il re-enforced rear regency regiments retired retreat river road sent Seville side siege skirmish soldiers Soult Spain Spaniards Spanish squadrons succour Suchet Tagus Tarifa Tarragona tion Tortosa town troops Valencia Villa whole
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Page 330 - Hawkshawe, fell wounded, and the fusilier battalions, struck by the iron tempest, reeled and staggered like sinking ships ; but suddenly and sternly recovering they closed on their terrible enemies, and then was seen with what a strength and majesty the British soldier fights.
Page 201 - A poor orphan Portuguese girl, about seventeen years of age, and very handsome, was seen coming down the mountain and driving an ass, loaded with all her property, through the midst of the French army. She had abandoned her dwelling in obedience to the proclamation, and now passed over the field of battle with a childish simplicity, totally unconscious of her perilous situation, and scarcely understanding which were the hostile and which the friendly troops, for no man on either side was so brutal...
Page 602 - ... the continual clatter of the muskets, made a maddening din. " Now a multitude bounded up the great breach as if driven by a whirlwind, but across the top glittered a range of sword-blades, sharp-pointed, keenedged on both sides, and firmly fixed in ponderous beams, which were chained together, and set deep in the ruins...
Page 328 - Beresford, finding his exhortations to advance fruitless, seized an ensign and bore him and his colours, by main force, to the front ; yet the troops would not follow, and the man went back again on being released. In this crisis, the weather, which had ruined Colborne's brigade, also prevented Soult from seeing the whole extent of the field of battle, and he still kept his heavy columns together. His...
Page 179 - The stern countenance, robust frame, saturnine complexion, caustic speech, and austere demeanor of the first, promised little sympathy with the short thick figure, dark flashing eyes, quick movements, and fiery temper of the second ; nor did they often meet without a quarrel.
Page 635 - A few hours' delay, an accident, a turn of fortune, and he would have been foiled ! ay ! but this is war, always dangerous and uncertain, an ever-rolling wheel and armed with scythes...
Page 319 - The officers of the army may depend upon it that the enemy to whom they are opposed are not less prudent than they are powerful. Notwithstanding what has been printed in gazettes and newspapers, we have never seen small bodies unsupported successfully opposed to large ; nor has the experience of any officer realized...
Page 606 - Let him consider that the slain died not all suddenly, nor by one manner of death ; that some perished by steel, some by shot, some by water, that some were crushed and mangled by heavy weights, some trampled upon...
Page 330 - Such a gallant line, issuing from the midst of the smoke, and rapidly separating itself from the confused and broken multitude, startled the enemy's heavy masses, which were increasing and pressing onwards as to an assured victory ; they wavered, hesitated, and then vomiting forth a storm of fire, hastily endeavoured to enlarge their front, while a fearful discharge of grape from all their artillery whistled through the British ranks. Myers was killed ; Cole and the three Colonels, Ellis, Blakeney,...
Page 222 - I had done and intended to do ; and that, instead of endeavoring to render all further defence fruitless, by disturbing the minds of the populace at Lisbon, they would have done their duty by adopting measures to secure the tranquillity of the town. But I suppose that, like other weak individuals, they add duplicity to their weakness, and that their expressions of approbation, and even gratitude, were intended to convey censure.