 | Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - 1901 - 366 páginas
...House of Lords by Earl Poulett, who in the heat of a debate referred to " a certain general who led his troops to the slaughter, to cause a great number of...battle, or against stone walls, in order to fill his pocket by disposing of their commissions." The duke heard this with silent contempt, but when the House... | |
 | Sir William Francis Butler - 1901 - 278 páginas
...Blenheim with bread, and if he " led troops to the slaughter that a great number of officers might thereby be knocked on the head in a battle, or against stone...fill his pockets by disposing of their commissions," he at least took care that his soldiers should never be without food, and that the battles and the... | |
 | Sabine Baring-Gould - 1909 - 942 páginas
...the Duke. "He was not like a certain general, who led troops to the slaughter, to cause great numbers of officers to be knocked on the head in a battle,...fill his pockets by disposing of their commissions." That this was levelled at the Duke of Marlborough no one doubted, but he remained silent, though evidently... | |
 | Arthur Stanley Turberville - 1927 - 600 páginas
...general, who led troops to the slaughter, to cause a great number of officers to be knocked on the head in battle, or against stone walls, in order to fill his pockets, by disposing of their commissions '. Marlborough took no notice of this brutal and outrageous attack at the time, but immediately after... | |
 | Robert Stanley Forsythe - 1928 - 366 páginas
...230-231, art. "Poulett, John, . . . First Earl Poulett," by JM Rigg. JOHN, FIRST DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH troops to the slaughter, to cause a great number of...fill his pockets by disposing of their commissions." * Marlborough, whose self-control was notable, although present at the time, restrained his anger at... | |
 | Winston Churchill - 2002 - 1096 páginas
...Nobody [he said] could doubt of the Duke of Ormonde's courage and bravery; but that he was not like a certain General, who led troops to the slaughter...in order to fill his pockets by disposing of their commissions."1 Finally Oxford, speaking again, gave the most positive assurances that neither he nor... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1828 - 802 páginas
...secret orders not to fight, said of him. " that he did not геяетЫв a certain general, who led his troops to the slaughter to cause a great number of...fill his pockets by disposing of their commissions." Marlborough heard him in silence, but as soon as the house rose, sent a message to him by Lord Mohun,... | |
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... troops to the slaughter to cause a great number of officers to be knocked on the head in a battle, or against stone walls, in order to fill his pockets by disposing of their commissions. 
