 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1811 - 444 pages
...soldiers will look up to them with confidence in the moment of action, and obey them with alacrity. The officers of the army may depend upon it, that the enemy to whom they are opposed are not le^s prudent than powerful. Notwithstanding what has been printed in gazettes and newspapers,... | |
 | Hunting - 1812 - 428 pages
...soldiers •will look up to them with confidence in the moment of action, and obey them with alacrity. The officers of the army may depend upon it, that the enemy to whom they are opposed are not less prudent than powerful. Notwithstanding what has been printed in gazettes and newspapers,... | |
 | 1812 - 724 pages
...soldier* will look up to them with confidence in the moment of action, and obey them with alacrity. Tbe officers of the army may depend upon it, that the enemy to whom they aie opposed, are not less prudent than they are powerful, notwithstanding what tat been printed in... | |
 | Arthur Wellesley (1st duke of Wellington.) - 1837 - 914 pages
...soldiers will look up to them with confidence in the moment of action, and obey them with alacrity. ' 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... | |
 | Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - Great Britain - 1837 - 788 pages
...soldiers will look up to them with confidence, in the moment of action, and obey them with alacrity. ' 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... | |
 | Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - Great Britain - 1838 - 672 pages
...soldiers will look up to them with confidence in the moment of action, and obey them with alacrity. ' 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... | |
 | Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1839 - 900 pages
...undisciplined valour, issued a remonstrance to the army. It was strong, and the following remarks arc as applicable to some writers as to soldiers : —...bodies, unsupported, successfully opposed to large; nor IMS the experience of any officer realized the stories which all have read of whole armies being driven... | |
 | Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - Great Britain - 1842 - 1008 pages
...soldiers will look up to them with confidence in the moment of action, and obey them with alacrity. 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... | |
 | Military art and science - 1844 - 660 pages
...soldiers will look up to them with confidence in the moment of action, and obey them with alacrity. 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... | |
 | Great Britain. Army, William Hamilton Maxwell - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1847 - 560 pages
...203 A general order of Lord Wellington, in alluding to this singular escape, sensibly remarks — " Officers of the army may depend upon it, that the...they are opposed is not less prudent than powerful." The extreme ability with which Brennier had contrived not only to ruin the works,* but to pass his... | |
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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... 
