History of the War of the Succession in Spain

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J. Murray, 1836 - 394 pàgines
 

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Pàgina lxxv - A great part of our success in reducing the island is owing to the zeal and affection the people have for us, which is beyond expression ; and whoever shall take care to keep up this disposition, which is easily to be done, need not fear to lose any of the three above-mentioned fortresses. This consideration makes me offer it as my humble opinion that England ought never to part with this island, which will give the law to the Mediterranean both in time of war and peace.
Pàgina 203 - Conde's name, indignantly exclaiming, " May no record of so vile a wretch remain amongst men !" At the court of Philip a country priest obtained an audience of the Queen, and offered her one hundred and twenty pistoles from a small village with only the same number of houses.
Pàgina 152 - Antonio, and entirely took off the head of the son. The father immediately rose up, first looking down upon his headless child, and then lifting up his eyes to heaven, whilst the tears ran down his cheeks, he crossed himself, and only said, ' FIAT VOLUNTAS TI1A ! ' and bore it with a wonderful patience. It was a sad spectacle, and truly it affects me even now whilst I am writing.
Pàgina 349 - I cannot but pause for a moment," says he, "to observe how much the course of a century has inverted the meaning of our party nicknames, how much a modern Tory resembles a Whig of Queen Anne's reign, and a Tory of Queen Anne's reign a modern Whig.
Pàgina cxiii - ... regiments, which did not do ill ; but their left made no resistance. I cannot sufficiently commend the behaviour of all the troops engaged, which never halted till we had driven their horse off the plain, beyond their infantry which was in the valley ; and if we had had two hours daylight more you may be assured that not one foot soldier of their army could have escaped.
Pàgina 394 - ... contrary, it was shown in the War of the Succession, as again, more lately, in our own times, that the possession of the chief city is of scarcely any avail, either to the foreign enemy or to the native partisan. Twice did the Archduke Charles, three times did Joseph Buonaparte advance in triumph to Madrid ; and as often did they learn, that it is one thing to seize the Castillian capital, and another thing to subdue the Castillian people. Thus, what in France is the consummation of conquest,...
Pàgina 337 - Speaking in the hignest terms of his brave men, he wrote to the Secretary of State, " Whatever other things I may have failed in through ignorance, I am truly conscious to myself that, in the condition we were reduced to, I could not do a better service to the queen, than endeavour to preserve them by the only way that was left.7' • General Stanhope, • M-Ujou, p.
Pàgina 144 - ... immediate embarkation of the soldiers ; during which time Peterborough bore, with immoveable firmness, all the taunts and upbraidings of Charles and his German courtiers. So well did these seeming preparations for retreat disguise his real purpose, that, on the very night when his troops were on their march to the attack of Montjuich, there were public entertainments and rejoicings in Barcelona for the raising of the siege. ' On that memorable night (the 13th of September)? the Prince of Darmstadt,...
Pàgina 143 - ... rules.' Even the English troops caught the sentiment of the foreign chiefs : they professed themselves quite hopeless of success, and only willing to make some attack on the city that they might not, in their own phrase, ' be taunted with first coming like fools, and then going back like cowards.' ' These obstacles, which might have dismayed and overpowered any common mind, only animated the genius of Peterborough. A careful consideration of the localities around him, enabled him to devise a...
Pàgina 162 - English outposts actually advancing on the summits of the hills above his camp, and availing themselves of the wooded and uneven ground to conceal their real weakness, and present the appearance of a considerable army. Las Torres then, without further delay, ordered his tents to be struck, his artillery to be spiked, and his troops to retreat, as rapidly as possible, on the road to Valencia. Thus did Peterborough's twelve hundred men, driving seven thousand before them, enter in triumph the walls...

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