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Description:This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 ...to walk in; and, this being done, the day following at noon he assembled his whole army, and gave them a three hours' liberty of plunder. For this purpose every man was provided with a small saw and hammer, and the whole filed off at beat of drum in parties to the different quarters of the town, as if to a regular vocation. In their search, which few things escaped, they found corn enough, concealed by the inhabitants, to supply the French army for three months; and yet these people had the incredible baseness, but a few days before, to suffer those who were fighting their battles absolutely to perish in their streets from hunger. By this time all the contending parties were cooped up in the narrow valley of the Tagus, the allies holding the centre, with their forces only one day's march asunder, while the various French corps could not be concentrated in less than three days' time. To counterbalance this, the advantage of numbers was fearfully on the enemy's side, their united armies being almost double the force opposed to them. But it is not a little singular, that, though acting in this confined space, all parties should have been for a long time equally ignorant of each other's numbers and intentions. While Victor and the intrusive King, under the idea that Wilson's partisan corps was either an army, or the precursor of one, were preparing to effect a junction at Mostoles, Cuesta, not less alarmed at Victor, was retreating from Talavera; Sir Arthur, in total misconception of Soult's real strength, was CRITICAL SITUATION OF THE ENGLISH. 159 advancing at the head of twenty-three thousand English and Spanish to attack fifty-three thousand French, and Soult all the time had no idea that his intended prey was voluntarily about to place himself within his gr...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Life of the Duke of Wellington. To get started finding Life of the Duke of Wellington, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 ...to walk in; and, this being done, the day following at noon he assembled his whole army, and gave them a three hours' liberty of plunder. For this purpose every man was provided with a small saw and hammer, and the whole filed off at beat of drum in parties to the different quarters of the town, as if to a regular vocation. In their search, which few things escaped, they found corn enough, concealed by the inhabitants, to supply the French army for three months; and yet these people had the incredible baseness, but a few days before, to suffer those who were fighting their battles absolutely to perish in their streets from hunger. By this time all the contending parties were cooped up in the narrow valley of the Tagus, the allies holding the centre, with their forces only one day's march asunder, while the various French corps could not be concentrated in less than three days' time. To counterbalance this, the advantage of numbers was fearfully on the enemy's side, their united armies being almost double the force opposed to them. But it is not a little singular, that, though acting in this confined space, all parties should have been for a long time equally ignorant of each other's numbers and intentions. While Victor and the intrusive King, under the idea that Wilson's partisan corps was either an army, or the precursor of one, were preparing to effect a junction at Mostoles, Cuesta, not less alarmed at Victor, was retreating from Talavera; Sir Arthur, in total misconception of Soult's real strength, was CRITICAL SITUATION OF THE ENGLISH. 159 advancing at the head of twenty-three thousand English and Spanish to attack fifty-three thousand French, and Soult all the time had no idea that his intended prey was voluntarily about to place himself within his gr...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Life of the Duke of Wellington. To get started finding Life of the Duke of Wellington, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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