History of the War in the Peninsula, and in the South of France, from the Year 1807 to the Year 1814, Volume 5T. & W. Boone, 1836 - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 |
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Alba allies Almaraz Andalusia Arapiles army of Portugal artillery Astorga attack battery battle battle of Salamanca Bonet BOOK bridge brigade British Burgos Cadiz Caffarelli castle Catalonia cavalry centre CHAP Ciudad Rodrigo Clauzel colonel column command convoy defeat detachment dragoons Drouet Duero enemy enemy's England English Eroles Estremadura fifth division fight fire flank force fords Foy's French army front Gallicians garrison Guadarama Guarena guns Hill horsemen hundred infantry Joseph July king king's Lerida letter light division lord Wellesley lord Wellington lord William Bentinck Madrid Marmont Meanwhile menaced military movement Napoleon night officers operations Partidas passed Peninsula Perceval Picton Pisuerga Portugal Portuguese position reached rear regiment reinforced retreat river road Salamanca sent siege soldiers Souham Soult Spain Spaniards Spanish squadron succour Suchet Tagus third division thousand tion Tordesillas Tormes Toro troops Valencia Valladolid Villa Campa wounded XVIII
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Page 511 - A grand design and grandly it was executed ! For high in heart and strong of hand Wellington's veterans marched to the encounter, the glories of twelve victories played about their bayonets, and he the leader so proud and confident, that in passing the stream which marks the frontier of Spain, he rose in his stirrups and waving his hand cried out
Page 210 - I saw him late in the evening of that great day, when the advancing flashes of cannon and musketry stretching as far as the eye could command showed in the darkness how well the field was won ; he was alone, the flush of victory was on his brow and his eyes were eager and watchful, but his voice was calm and even gentle. More than the rival of Marlborough, since he had defeated greater generals than Marlborough ever encountered, with a prescient pride he seemed only to accept this glory as an earnest...
Page 177 - ... anon darting upwards in one vast pyramid, the apex of which often approached, yet never gained the actual summit of the mountain ; but the French musketry, rapid as lightning, sparkled along the brow of the height, with unvarying fulness, and with...
Page 168 - ... of their country, sent showers of grape into the advancing masses, while a crowd of light troops poured in a fire of musketry, under cover of which the main body endeavoured to display a front. But bearing onwards through the skirmishers with the might of a giant, Pakenham broke the half-formed lines into fragments, and sent the whole in confusion upon the advancing supports ; one only officer...
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Page 181 - The hill of La Serna offered a frightful spectacle of the power of the musket, that queen of weapons, and the track of the Germans was marked by their huge bodies. A few minutes only had the combat lasted and above a hundred had fallen...
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Page 167 - Pakenham with the third division shoot like a meteor across Thomieres' path ; then pride and hope alike died within him, and desperately he was hurrying in person to that fatal point, when an exploding shell stretched him on the earth with a broken arm and two deep wounds in his side. Confusion ensued, and the troops, distracted by ill-judged orders and counter-orders, knew not where to move, whom to fight, or whom to avoid.
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