The Wellington Memorial: Wellington, His Comrades and ContemporariesG. Allen, 1897 - 370 pages |
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Adour advance afterwards allies Apsley House army artillery attack Badajoz battle Beresford Blucher brigade British Burgos Busaco campaign cavalry centre chief Ciudad Rodrigo Colonel columns command corps Corunna Cotton Craufurd D'Erlon despatches discipline division doubt Douro Duke of Wellington Duke's enemy England English field fight Fitz Roy Somerset flank force fought French front gave Graham guns hand Hill honour Hope Horse Guards infantry La Haye Sainte Larpent leader letter lieutenant lieutenant-colonel Lord Fitz Roy Lord Wellington Madrid manœuvre Marmont Massena military Napier Napoleon never numbers officers once operations orders Peninsula Picton Portugal Portuguese position Prussians Quatre Bras rank rear regiment river Salamanca says sent siege Sir John Moore Sir Stapleton Cotton Sir Thomas soldiers Soult Spain Spaniards Spanish staff staff-officer story strong success Tagus Talavera tion told troops victory Vittoria Waterloo Wavre Wellesley Wellesley's whole wrote
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Page 259 - Mourn for the man of long-enduring blood, The statesman-warrior, moderate, resolute, Whole in himself, a common good. Mourn for the man of amplest influence, Yet clearest of ambitious crime, Our greatest yet with least pretence, Great in council and great in war, Foremost captain of his time, Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
Page 158 - Although circumstances may alter the relations in which he has stood towards them for years, so much to his satisfaction, he assures them he will never cease to feel the warmest interest in their welfare and honour, and that he will be at all times happy to be of any service to those to whose conduct, discipline, and gallantry their country is so much indebted.
Page 259 - O good gray head which all men knew, O voice from which their omens all men drew, O iron nerve to true occasion true, O fallen at length that tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew!
Page 109 - It is not known to the army and to strangers, and I am almost ashamed of acknowledging, the small degree (I ought to say nullity) of power of reward which belongs to my situation ; and it is really extraordinary that I have got on so well hitherto without it; but the day must come when this system must be altered.
Page 68 - We all know that the discipline and regularity of all armies must depend upon the diligence of the regimental Officers, particularly the Subalterns. I may order what I please ; but if they do not execute what I order, or if they execute with negligence, I cannot expect that British soldiers will be orderly or regular.
Page 141 - ... through those wild but beautiful regions ; six days they toiled unceasingly ; on the seventh, swelled by the junction of Longa's division and all the smaller bands which came trickling from the mountains, they burst like raging streams from every defile, and went foaming into the basin of Vittoria.
Page 19 - There is an awkwardness in a secret which enables discerning men (of which description there are always plenty in an army) invariably to find it out ; and it may be depended upon that, whenever the public business ought to be kept secret, it always suffers when it is exposed to public view.
Page 55 - British army have not received one third of their provisions; that at this moment there are nearly 4,000 wounded soldiers dying in the hospital in this town from want of common assistance and necessaries, which any other country in the world would have given even to its enemies ; and that I can get no assistance of any description from the country.
Page 163 - To tell you the truth, I am not very well pleased either with the manner in which the Horse Guards have conducted themselves towards me. It will be admitted that the army is not a very good one...
Page 127 - Wellington's, observed to him — ' Why, here you are with a couple of weak divisions in front of the whole French army, and you seem quite at your ease ; — why, it is enough to put any man in a fever.' — ' I have done, according to the very best of my judgment, all that can be done...