 | 1892 - 788 pages
...in our own troops he so often comments. For instance, he writes from Coimbra, May 3ist, 1809: — " The army behave terribly ill. They are a rabble who...could bear failure. I am endeavouring to tame them." How he succeeded can be understood by any reader of his despatches, which show that the process was... | |
 | Adolphe Thiers - France - 1893 - 536 pages
...WELLESLEv.'' " To Пкmm1 Gutlereagh, Stmtary nf Statt. "CoTmlira, 31st May, 180i¡. •Mv DEAR T/iRn, — The army behave terribly ill. They are a rabble who...cannot bear success any more than Sir John Moore's aimyiould bear fadure. I nm endeavouring to iame them; but if 1 should not succeed, 1 must bnk., au... | |
 | Earl Frederick Sleigh Roberts Roberts - Generals - 1895 - 232 pages
...have long been of opinion that a British army could bear neither success nor failure." And again : " The army behave terribly ill. They are a rabble who...them, and send one or two corps home in disgrace." After the battle of Vittoria he addressed the Secretary of State as follows : " It is quite impossible... | |
 | Charles Cooper King - Great Britain - 1897 - 508 pages
...disciplined at that time. Even their own general recognised this. " The army," he writes, " behaves terribly ill. They are a rabble who cannot bear success...more than Sir John Moore's army could bear failure. . . . They plunder in all directions." But they were only very raw soldiers after all, and hungry men... | |
 | Arthur Griffiths - 1897 - 462 pages
...the recent conduct of the troops." Again, on the same date, to Lord Castlereagh: "The army behaves terribly ill. They are a rabble who cannot bear success any more than Sir John Moore's 1 " No soldier can withstand the temptation of wine. This is constantly before their eyes in this country,... | |
 | Louis Creswicke - South African War, 1899-1902 - 1900 - 296 pages
...almost incorrigible. He declared that his own troops at the beginning of the Peninsular war were " a rabble, who cannot bear success any more than Sir John Moore's army could bear failure." He also confessed, " I am endeavouring to tame them, but if I should not succeed, I must make an official... | |
 | Charles Oman - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1903 - 732 pages
...terms concerning the rank and file, is so well known that we are not surprised to find him writing that ' the army behave terribly ill : they are a rabble...more than Sir John Moore's army could bear failure V He complained most of all of the recruits sent him from the Irish militia, who were, he said, capable... | |
 | 1894 - 760 pages
...have long been of opinion that a British army could bear neither success nor failure." And again : " The army behave terribly ill. They are a rabble who...them, and send one or two corps home in disgrace." After the battle of Victoria he addressed the Secretary of State as follows : " It is quite impossible... | |
 | Roger Parkinson - History - 2000 - 214 pages
...retreat. 'The army behave terribly ill/ complained Wellesley to Castlereagh on the last day of May. 'They are a rabble who cannot bear success any more...could bear failure. I am endeavouring to tame them.' And again on 17 June: 'We are an excellent army on parade, an excellent one to fight; but we are worse... | |
 | Military art and science - 1847 - 662 pages
...has given me the greatest concern." Again, in a letter to Lord Castlereagh, of the same date : — " The army behave terribly ill ; they are a rabble,...but if I should not succeed, I must make an official report of them, and send one or two corps home in disgrace. They plunder in all directions." Why or... | |
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The army behave terribly ill ; they are a rabble, who cannot bear success any more than Sir John Moore's army could bear failure. 
