History of the King's German Legion, Volume 1Thomas and William Boone, 1832 |
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Alten arrived Astorga attack August Berichti boat British Bussche captain cavalry coast colonel von MSS column command convention corps Corunna Craufurd Darstel Decken detachment dragoons duke of Cambridge eight Elbe electorate embarked enemy enemy's England English fire flank fleet Flushing following day force front garrison German hussars gungen guns Hanover Hanoverian Hanoverian army Heise Historische horses hundred infantry Journal July June killed king's German legion Krauchenberg land Lauenburg levée en masse lieutenant lieutenant-colonel lieutenant-general light battalion light division line battalion line brigade Linsingen lord Wellington main body majesty major Rau major-general marshal Walmoden Massena ment Mondego morning Mortier Napier Narrative night o'clock obliged officers piquet prisoners rear rear-guard recruiting regiments retired retreat Robert Craufurd royal highness Scheldt sent Sergeants sir Arthur Wellesley sir John Moore skirmishers soldiers Soult Spanish squadron Suhlingen tenberg third hussars thousand tion transport troops Tullamore vessel Vigo whole wounded
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Page 218 - Scheldt, having for its object the capture or destruction of the enemy's ships, either building at Antwerp or Flushing, or afloat on the Scheldt; the destruction of the arsenals and dockyards at Antwerp, Torneux, and Flushing; the reduction of the island of Walcheren, and the rendering, if possible, the Scheldt no longer navigable for ships of war.
Page 85 - ... the King, the Prince of Wales, and other members of the Royal Family.
Page 40 - Accept the assurances of the high consideration with which I have the honor to be, sir, your very humble and obedient servant.
Page 362 - I have the honour to remain, Sir, your most obedient humble servant, DAVID NEWMAN.
Page 2 - America, and was on the point of sailing ; but in consequence of that message its orders are countermanded. 2. If we do not receive satisfactory explanations respecting these armaments in England, and if they actually take place, it is natural that the First Consul should march twenty thousand men into Holland, since that country is named in the King's message.
Page 357 - Colonel Napier's History of the War in the Peninsula, an assertion that " the British and German troops that marched to Vigo were conducted without judgment, and licentious.
Page 232 - Coote to send in to summons the place. General Monnet returned for answer, that he would reply to the summons as soon as he had consulted a council of war. An hour had been allowed him for the purpose, but a considerable time beyond it having elapsed without...
Page 190 - ... excepted, allow me to place on record in your standard periodical a few facts and extracts from official documents, which will be found to convey a more correct idea of the qualities of these troops than anything which prejudice might dictate, or partiality call forth. " On the 5th of May (1809), the army being at length assembled, a grand review took place, and a most magnificent spectacle it presented. To some of the troops which stood that day under arms, it is not going too far to affirm...
Page 40 - June, rights and possessions as a prince of that empire. " Until his majesty shall be informed of their sentiments, he has commanded me to say, that in his character of elector of Hanover, he will scrupulously abstain from...
Page 42 - ... sacrifie indignement vos troupes, dont la bravoure est connue de l'Europe entière ; mais il ne l'est pas moins que tout projet de défense de votre part serait illusoire, et ne ferait qu'attirer de nouveaux malheurs sur votre pays. Je charge le général Berthier, chef de l'état major-général, de vous faire part de mes propositions.