| William Francis Patrick Napier - 1833 - 740 pagina’s
...but to compare either to the duke of Wellington displays ignorance of the men and of 1810. July. BOOK the art they professed. If they had even comprehended...would have carefully avoided fighting on the Coa, and the other, far from refusing, would have eagerly proffered his support. CHAPTER V. DURING the siege... | |
| Heaton Bowstead Robinson - 1835 - 910 pagina’s
...command, and his opportunities were necessarily more circumscribed : but to compare either to the Duke of Wellington, displays ignorance of the men, and of...would have carefully avoided fighting on the Coa, and the other, far from refusing, would have eagerly proffered his support." That General Picton refused... | |
| Heaton Bowstead Robinson - 1836 - 442 pagina’s
...command, and his opportunities were necessarily more circumscribed : but to compare either to the Duke of Wellington, displays ignorance of the men, and of...would have carefully avoided fighting on the Coa, and the other, far from refusing, would have eagerly proffered his support." That General Picton refused... | |
| Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - 1839 - 890 pagina’s
...command, and his opportunities were necessarily more circumscribed; but to compare cither to the duke of Wellington displays ignorance of the men and of the...would have carefully avoided fighting on the Coa, and the other, far from refusing, would bare eagerly proffered his support. CHAPTER V. Slight operations... | |
| Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - 1839 - 900 pagina’s
...command, and his opportunities were necessarily more circumscribed; but to compare cither to the duke of Wellington displays ignorance of the men and of the...would have carefully avoided fighting on the Coa, and the other, far from refusing, would have eagerly proffered his support. CHAPTER V. Slighlopcratioi»... | |
| sir William Francis P. Napier - 1840 - 798 pagina’s
...command, and his opportunities were necessarily more circumscribed ; but to compare either to the duke of Wellington displays ignorance of the men and of the...would have carefully avoided fighting on the Coa, and the other, far from refusing, would have eagerly proffered his support. CHAPTER V. DURING the siege... | |
| Great Britain. Army, William Hamilton Maxwell - 1847 - 560 pagina’s
...command, and his opportunities were necessarily more circumscribed ; but to compare either to the Duke of Wellington, displays ignorance of the men, and of...profound military and political combinations he was conducting, the one would carefully have avoided fighting on the Coa, and the other, far from refusing,... | |
| William Francis Patrick Napier - 1852 - 570 pagina’s
...separate command and his opportunities were more circumscribed—but to compare either to the Duke of Wellington displays ignorance of the men and of the...would have carefully avoided fighting on the Coa, and the other, far from refusing, would have eagerly proffered his support. Here some illustrations... | |
| William Hamilton Maxwell - 1852 - 558 pagina’s
...command, and his opportunities were necessarily more circumscribed ; but to compare either to the Duke of Wellington, displays ignorance of the men, and of...profound military and political combinations he was conducting, the one would carefully have avoided fighting on the Coa, and the other, far from refusing,... | |
| John William Cole - 1856 - 400 pagina’s
...and his opportunities were necessarily more circumscribed * ; but to compare either to the Duke of Wellington, displays ignorance of the men and of the art they professed." General Craufurd lingered for five days ; and it was at first hoped that his wound, although reported... | |
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