 | Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - 1853 - Liczba stron: 236
...losses and their success, will only make matters worse, and increase our embarassment and distress. " I positively will not move, nay, more, I will disperse...provisions and means of transport as I ought to be."— Vol. v., p. 547. Every syllable of that letter breathes the indignation of wounded honour at a nation's... | |
 | Royal United Service Institution (Great Britain) - 1870 - Liczba stron: 826
...my Army may get something to eat." On the- 31st of August, iu the same year he wrote to Mr. Frerc, - I positively will not move, nay more, I will disperse my army, till 1 ~ am supplied with provisions and 'means of transport, as I ought - to be." In 1811 the Duke wrote... | |
 | Charles Walker Robinson - 1871 - Liczba stron: 284
...assistance and necessaries, which any other country in the world would have given, even to its enemies. I positively will not move, nay, more, I will disperse...provisions and means of transport, as I ought to be." The Spanish authorities had thus been false to The orders their Allies in the matter of provisions... | |
 | 1872 - Liczba stron: 344
...Sir Arthur became indignant at this neglect, and in one of his despatches to the Government, wrote, " I positively will not move, nay, more, I will disperse...provisions, and means of transport, as I ought to be." The French, although commanded by Soult, one of their famous marshals, retreated in such haste from... | |
 | Children - 1872 - Liczba stron: 168
...Sir Arthur became indignant at this neglect, and in one of his despatches to the Government, wrote, " I positively will not move, nay, more, I will disperse...provisions, and means of transport, as I ought to be." The French, although commanded by Soult, one of their famous marshals, retreated in such haste from... | |
 | 1882 - Liczba stron: 626
...providing the British troops with the necessaries they required. Sir Arthur, at this epoch, wrote : "I positively will not move, nay, more, I will disperse...supplied with provisions and means of transport as I should be." Would this have happened had some system of requisitions been adopted? However, though... | |
 | George Armand Furse - 1883 - Liczba stron: 266
...providing the British troops with the necessaries they required. Sir Arthur, at this epoch, wrote : " I positively will not move, nay, more, I will disperse...supplied with provisions and means of transport as I should be." Would this have happened had some system of requisitions been adopted? However, though... | |
 | Arthur Griffiths - 1897 - Liczba stron: 462
...assistance and necessaries which any other country in the world would have given even to its enemies. I positively will not move, nay more, I will disperse...provisions and means of transport as I ought to be." This retreat was forced upon him by other causes, as we shall see ; but the want of supplies would,... | |
 | Charles Walker Robinson - 1907 - Liczba stron: 826
...assistance and necessaries, which any other country in the world would have given, even to its enemies. I positively will not move — nay, more, I will disperse...provisions and means of transport, as I ought to be." Venegas, who was to have operated against Toledo and Madrid from the south, moved forward in so slow... | |
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... of every beast in the country ought to be directed, the bravery of the soldiers, their losses and their success will only make matters worse and increase our embarrassment and distress. ' I positively will not move, nay more, I will disperse my army,... 
