 | 1839 - 618 pages
...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 up to the...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 pages
...stragglers were only reclaimed xxii. 252. by sedulous efforts and rigorous severity.1 * * " We started with the army in the highest order, and up to the...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 pages
...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 pages
...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...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 pages
...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, up to the...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 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Lewis William George Butler - 1904 - 474 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Roger Parkinson - 2000 - 214 pages
...battle. Wellington paced his field headquarters in rage and dictated a vicious dispatch. We started with the army in the highest order, and up to the...usual, totally annihilated all order and discipline . . . We may gain the greatest victories; but we shall do no good until we shall so far alter our system,... | |
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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... 
