 | Arthur Wellesley (1st duke of Wellington.) - 1838 - 620 pages
...years, so little progress has been made in any one branch of the military profession by any individual, and that the business of an army should be so little...running away and assembling again in a state of nature. • the existing government of Spain. They have attempted to govern the kingdom in a state of revolution,... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1838 - 652 pages
...years, so little progress has been made in any one branch of the military profession by any individual, and that the business of an army should be so little...running away, and assembling again in a state of nature. THE DUKE OP WELLINGTON. only an excuse for the irregularity with which every thing is done, and for... | |
 | Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1839 - 1048 pages
...any one branch of the military profession by any individual. ... I cannot say that they do anything as it ought to be done, with the exception of running away and assembling again in a state of nature. . . . " The Spaniards have neither numbers, efficiency, discipline, bravery or arrangement to carry... | |
 | Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1839 - 1060 pages
...any one branch of the military profession by any individual. ... I cannot say that they do anything as it ought to be done, with the exception of running away and assembling again in a state of nature. . . . " The Spaniards have neither numbers, efficiency, discipline, bravery or arrangement to carry... | |
 | William Francis Patrick Napier - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1840 - 868 pages
...branch of the military profession by any individual.' . . . . ' 1 cannot say that they do anything- as it ought to be done, with the exception of running away and assembling again in a state of nature.' ' The Spaniards have neither numbers, efficiency, discipline, bravery or arrangement to carry on the... | |
 | 1871 - 846 pages
...nation has, by the measures it has adopted in the last two years, so little progress has been made. They are really children in the art of war, and I cannot say that they do anything as it ought to be done, with the exception of running away and assembling again in a state... | |
 | Andrew Redman Bonar - 1845 - 472 pages
...years, so little progress hns been made in any one branch of the military profession, by any individual, and that the business of an army should be so little...I cannot say that they do any thing as it ought to s~ be done, with the exception of running away and assembling again in a state of nature. I really... | |
 | Thornton MacMahon - English literature - 1846 - 260 pages
...years, so little progress has been made in any one branch of the military profession by any individual, and that the business of an army should be so little...children in the art of war, and I cannot say that they do anything as it ought to be done, with the exception of running away and assembling again in a state... | |
 | 1847 - 166 pages
...enable their allies to fight for them, " they were really children in the art of war, and did nothing as it ought to be done, with the exception of running...away, and assembling again in a state of nature." * Supplies they would not find, and the more the English general asked the more they promised, and... | |
 | William Francis Patrick Napier - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1840 - 860 pages
...branch of the military profession by any individual.' . . . . ' I cannot say that they do anything as it ought to be done, with the exception of running away and assembling again in a state of nature.' ' The Spaniards have neither numbers, efficiency, discipline, bravery or arrangement to carry on the... | |
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... Nothing can be worse than the officers of the Spanish army ; and it is extraordinary that when a nation has devoted itself to war, as this nation has, by the measures it has adopted in the last two years, so little progress has been made in any one... 
