epub |eng | 2021-11-14 | Author:Max Lamirande [Lamirande, Max]

Extract from the Memoirs of General Rapp About to leave Vienna, end of February 1806 The time we spent in Vienna was not just about sheltering from the snow and ...

azw3 |eng | 2023-09-28 | Author:Martin McDowell [McDowell, Martin]

oOo Out before the 105th column, the Light Company advanced in their files of three. The light was fading and Miles, at the head of his file, pulled out a ...

epub |eng | 2015-10-14 | Author:Russell, William Clark;

CHAPTER VIII. Fresh Attempt—Rewards—Parliamentary Votes—Newnham Collingwood—Letters to Lady Collingwood—A Nelson Memorial—Young Sea-Officers—Codrington on Collingwood— Fresh Corn-mission—Dumanoir’s Squadron—Familiar Letters—Novelists’ Sailors—Position of Commander-in-Chief in Mediterranean—Letter from the Queen of Naples—Sir John Duckworth—Action ...

epub |eng | 2015-10-14 | Author:Currie, Laurence;

IX — Moscow and Leipzig TOWARDS the end of 1811 it became evident that the Franco-Russian alliance could not be permanent. Not only did the Czar decline to enforce the ...

epub |eng | 2014-08-18 | Author:Savary Duke of Rovigo, Anne Jean Marie René; [Studio, AVS Office]

CHAPTER II. The Emperor’s arrival at Bayonne—His entrance into Spain—Action of Somosierra—Madrid is summoned to open her gates—Embarrassment of the Spanish grandees—-Assault —Entrance into Madrid—Correspondence between the Queen of Naples ...

pdf | | 2013-04-05 | Author:Ségur, Philippe-Paul, comte de, 1780-1873

pdf | | | Author:Ségur, Philippe Paul, comte de, 1780-1873

epub |eng | 2011-08-25 | Author:Surgeon Walter Henry [Henry, Surgeon Walter]

CHAPTER XIX. — ARRIVAL OF LORD GOSFORD.—MR. ROEBUCK.—ELEVATION OF MR. BEDARD TO THE BENCH.—HOSPITALITIES AND CONVIVIALITIES OF THE CHATEAU. “Why, my Master, kind soul, said the Corporal, hasn’t the heart ...

epub |eng | 2005-09-19 | Author:John Kincaid [Kincaid, John]

CHAPTER XVIII Commencement of the War of 1815—Embark for Rotterdam—Ship’s Stock—Ship struck—A Pilot, a Smuggler, and a Lawyer—A Boat without Stock—Join the Regiment at Brussels. I HAVE endeavoured, in this ...

epub |eng | 2013-02-25 | Author:Sir Richard D. Henegan [Henegan, Sir Richard D.]

CHAPTER XX. Friendly Patroles—Plundering Spaniards—The Padre of Vera—Sequel to the story of Agnese and Friar Antonio—Marauding habits of Murillo's Division— Attack on the Convent of St. Cecilia—Horrible outrage on the ...

epub |eng | 2016-11-11 | Author:Anonymous [Anonymous]

CHAPTER XVIII.—THE SIEGE OF BURGOS. IN a few days we reached within one league of Burgos, where we halted and bivouacked: next morning we marched in two columns upon Burgos, ...

epub |eng | 2010-11-17 | Author:Anon [Anon]

The hollow, in the twilight of a summer evening, presented a scene of great interest—the wounded of both armies crying piteously for "water! water!" We had much ado to avoid ...

epub |eng | 2011-01-20 | Author:Philip Henry, 5th Earl of Stanhope [Philip Henry, 5th Earl of Stanhope]

The French, when first they entered Portugal under Junot, met with no resistance at all; had they done so, they could not have got to Lisbon, their route being most ...

epub |eng | 2011-07-05 | Author:Francis Loraine Petre O.B.E [O.B.E, Francis Loraine Petre]

General Bonnal{218} blames Bessières for allowing himself to be frightened into retreat when, by a bold offensive with Wrede and Molitor, he would probably have forced Hiller to retreat. That, ...

epub |eng | 2011-06-27 | Author:Francis Loraine Petre O.B.E [O.B.E, Francis Loraine Petre]

Napoleon, only able to commence passing the Marne at 10 a.m., had his army by evening of the 3rd in the following positions: (1) Marmont, Mortier and Bordessoulle between Neuilly-St. ...