Journal of an Officer in the Commissariat Department of the Army: Comprising a Narrative of the Campaigns Under His Grace the Duke of Wellington, in Portugal, Spain, France, and the Netherlands, in the Years 1811, 1812, 1813, 1814, & 1815; and a Short Account of the Army of Occupation in France, During the Years 1816, 1817, & 1818 |
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... bands under their own chieftains , and retreated into for tresses or to the mountains , from whence they carried on a desultory warfare against the enemy's foraging parties and other de- tachments , by 2 INTRODUCTION .
... bands under their own chieftains , and retreated into for tresses or to the mountains , from whence they carried on a desultory warfare against the enemy's foraging parties and other de- tachments , by 2 INTRODUCTION .
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... enemy's success , thought they should equally serve both their king and their country by introducing a form of government upon the basis of a constitution likely to promote and secure the true interests and liberties of both . The Junta ...
... enemy's success , thought they should equally serve both their king and their country by introducing a form of government upon the basis of a constitution likely to promote and secure the true interests and liberties of both . The Junta ...
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... enemy's possession , and his piquets came as far as Alhandra . Massena's head - quarters were es- tablished at Alenquer , a village near Cartaxo , only eight leagues from Lisbon , Ciudad Rodrigo , Almeida , and all the country from the ...
... enemy's possession , and his piquets came as far as Alhandra . Massena's head - quarters were es- tablished at Alenquer , a village near Cartaxo , only eight leagues from Lisbon , Ciudad Rodrigo , Almeida , and all the country from the ...
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... enemy , had concealed themselves in the mountains off the road , and even these had in many instances ( during this sorrowful winter ) been subject to the incursions of foraging parties from the enemy's camps and -cantonments in the ...
... enemy , had concealed themselves in the mountains off the road , and even these had in many instances ( during this sorrowful winter ) been subject to the incursions of foraging parties from the enemy's camps and -cantonments in the ...
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... enemy's communication with the Agueda , which obliged Massena to relinquish the view of turning our right . His efforts to force our centre about Fuentes , too , being un- successful , he at length returned to the ground he had left in ...
... enemy's communication with the Agueda , which obliged Massena to relinquish the view of turning our right . His efforts to force our centre about Fuentes , too , being un- successful , he at length returned to the ground he had left in ...
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1st Battalion 1st Division 3d division 4th division afternoon amongst arrived artillery assembled attack Badajos baggage battle of Salamanca bridge Brigade of Infantry Buonaparte camp cantonments cavalry centre Ciudad Rodrigo Colonel column command commenced corps ditto divi Division of Infantry Douro Duke of Wellington Elvas encamped enemy enemy's engaged England English fell fire Foot force France French army frontiers Fuentes garrison Guards head-quarters heights high road horses Hussars joined killed Lieut.-Colonel Lieut.-General Lieutenant-General light division Light Dragoons Lisbon Lord Wellington Madrid Major-General Major-General Sir Marshal Beresford Marshal Marmont Marshal Soult ment miles morning mountains moved night Nivelles Northamptonshire o'clock obliged occupied officers ordered Paris passed the river piquets plain Portugal Portuguese position Prince Prussian quarters rear regiment retired retreat Royal Salamanca side Sir Rowland Hill Sir Thomas Picton soon Spain Spaniards storm Tagus thousand Toulouse town troops village Vittoria Waterloo wounded