 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. The soldiers of the army have sot among them about a million sterling...  History of Europe (from 1789 to 1815). - Stran 770avtor: sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1841Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | 1839 - 618 strani
...Bathurst on the subject, in a letter dated 29th June 1813, a few days after the battle of Vittoria : — ' We started with the army in the highest order, and...all order and discipline. The soldiers of the army hare got among them about a million sterling in money, with the exception of about 100,000 dollars,... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1835 - 1056 strani
...and these stragglers were only reclaimed xxii. 252. by sedulous efforts and rigorous severity.1 * * " We started with the army in the highest order, and...battle nothing could get on better; but that event has, M usual, totally annihilated all order and discipline. The soldiers of the army have got among them... | |
 | Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - 1842 - 1008 strani
...that the people of this province will shoot them as they would the French, if they should misbehave. We started with the army in the highest order, and up to the day oflk battle, nothing could get on better ; but that event has, as usual, totally annihilated all order... | |
 | Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - 1851 - 994 strani
...that the people of this province will shoot them as they would the French, if they should misbehave. We started with the army in the highest order, and...order and discipline. The soldiers of the army have sot among them about a million sterling in money, with the exception of about 100,000 dollars, which... | |
 | Arthur Wellesley (1st duke of Wellington.), Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - 1852 - 204 strani
...a considerable number of prisoners. To Earl Bathurst. Caseda, on the river Aragon, 29th June, 1813. We started with the army in the highest order, and,...discipline. The soldiers of the army have got among them a million sterling in money, with the exception of about 100,000 dollars, which were got for the military... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1852 - 296 strani
...the very reverso of flattering. '• We started with the army in the highest order," says the Duke, "and up to the day of the battle nothing could get...totally annihilated all order and discipline. The night of the battle, instead of being passed in getting rest aud food to prepare them for the pursuit... | |
 | Thomas Philip De Grey (2nd earl.) - 1853 - 226 strani
...generally come out to us. The people will shoot them as they would the French, if they should misbehave. " We started with the army in the highest order, and up to the day of the battle nothing could be better ; but that event annihilated all order and discipline. The soldiers have got about a million... | |
 | Sir Reginald Clare Hart - 1897 - 394 strani
...following is Wellington's description of the British army after the victory of Vittoria in 1813 : — "We started with the army in the highest order, and...totally annihilated all order and discipline. The night of the battle, instead of being passed in getting rest and food to prepare for the pursuit of... | |
 | Lewis William George Butler - 1904 - 474 strani
...plundering the country in all directions." " We started," wrote he to Lord Bathurst on the 29th of June, " with the army in the highest order, and up to the...could get on better ; but that event has as usual annihilated all good order and discipline. The soldiers of the Army have got among them about a million... | |
 | Sir John William Fortescue - 1920 - 572 strani
...course was furious. "We started," he wrote, " with the army in the highest order, and up to the very day of the battle nothing could get on better, but that event has, as usual, annihilated all order and discipline. . . . The soldiers of the army have got among them about a million... | |
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