A History of the British Army, Volume 9Macmillan and Company, limited, 1920 - Great Britain |
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advance Alicante Allies Altafulla April Ariñez Army of Portugal arrived artillery attack Bathurst battalions batteries Baztan Bentinck bridge brigade British Burgos campaign cavalry Centre Ciudad Rodrigo Clarke Clausel column command Copons corps d'Erlon despatches detachment Digeon Douro dragoons Duke of York Ebro enemy enemy's flank force French army garrison Gazan Graham Guards Guerre guns halted head-quarters heights of Puebla Hill Hill's horses hundred Hussars infantry Joseph Jourdan July June 17 June 21 letter Leval Light Division loss Madrid Mathieu Maucune Maucune's Meanwhile miles Miranda del Ebro move Murray Murray's Napier Napoleon night o'clock officers Pamplona pass Peninsula Portuguese position Puebla reached rear regiments Reille Reille's reported retire retreat river road Russia Salamanca Sarrut's sent Sicily soldiers Spain Spaniards Spanish Suchet Tarragona thousand Torrens Tortosa Tres Puentes troops Urumea Valencia village Villatte Vitoria Wellington Desp Wellington MSS whole wounded Zadorra
Popular passages
Page 443 - I can only tell you that, if I were a Prince of the House of Bourbon, nothing should prevent me from now coming forward, not in a good house in London, but in the field in France ; and if Great Britain would stand by him, I am certain he would succeed.
Page 442 - If I could now bring forward 20,000 good Spaniards, paid and fed, I should have Bayonne. If I could bring forward 40,000, I don't know where I should stop. Now I have both the 20,000 and the 40,000 at my command, upon this frontier, but I cannot venture to bring forward any for want of means of paying and supporting them. Without pay and food, they must plunder; and if they plunder, they will ruin us all.
Page 198 - It is quite impossible for me or any other man to command a British army under the existing system. We have in the service the scum of the earth as common soldiers...
Page 198 - We started with the army in the highest order, and up to the day of the battle nothing could get on better ; but that event has, as usual, totally annihilated all order and discipline.
Page 77 - British officers could not give them ; and, notwithstanding that the Portuguese are now the fighting cocks of the army, I believe we owe their merits more to the care we have taken of their pockets and bellies than to the instruction we have given them.
Page 198 - ... in our power, both by law and by publications, to relax the discipline by which alone such men can be kept in order. The officers of the lower ranks will not perform the duty required from them for the purpose of keeping their soldiers in order ; and it is next to impossible to punish any officer for neglects of this description.
Page 198 - The night of the battle, instead of being passed in getting rest and food to prepare them for the pursuit of the following day, was passed by the soldiers in looking for plunder. The consequence was, that they were incapable of marching in pursuit of the enemy, and were totally knocked up.
Page 475 - ... placed himself in a position that every other officer would have avoided, and had not remained in it longer than was consistent with any notions of prudence, he would have retired in such a state, that the allies could not have ventured to approach the Rhine. They must not expect battles of Leipsic every day ; and that which experience shows them is, that they ought, above all things, to avoid any great military disaster.