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... head - quarters were removed to Vittoria . Here Napoleon himself , however , arrived soon after , preceded by such a body of troops as , in M. de Melito's words , to render the position every day more and more formidable . This was on ...
... head - quarters were removed to Vittoria . Here Napoleon himself , however , arrived soon after , preceded by such a body of troops as , in M. de Melito's words , to render the position every day more and more formidable . This was on ...
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... head - quarters . Napoleon in- tended , indeed , once more going to Spain himself , but he was prevented doing so . Under such circumstances , with a people hostile to them in Madrid , a nation in arms without , and the English ...
... head - quarters . Napoleon in- tended , indeed , once more going to Spain himself , but he was prevented doing so . Under such circumstances , with a people hostile to them in Madrid , a nation in arms without , and the English ...
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... head , invested with full civil and military powers and authority . M. de Melito justly considered such a step as fatal to the success of Joseph . He could not , he says , expect a single Spaniard to act with him without being a traitor ...
... head , invested with full civil and military powers and authority . M. de Melito justly considered such a step as fatal to the success of Joseph . He could not , he says , expect a single Spaniard to act with him without being a traitor ...
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... head of large reinforcements derived from the central army . M. de Melito accompanied Joseph on this occasion . The king had , he tells us , fourteen thousand excellent troops under his com- mand , with an admirable artillery . When ...
... head of large reinforcements derived from the central army . M. de Melito accompanied Joseph on this occasion . The king had , he tells us , fourteen thousand excellent troops under his com- mand , with an admirable artillery . When ...
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... head of eighteen thousand men , retreating by Alcorcon , fell in with a body of Portuguese cavalry , who , giving way , caused some loss to the English horse artillery by whom they were supported . Passing the Tagus and destroying the ...
... head of eighteen thousand men , retreating by Alcorcon , fell in with a body of Portuguese cavalry , who , giving way , caused some loss to the English horse artillery by whom they were supported . Passing the Tagus and destroying the ...
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Page 259 - ... say authors ;) and for royal robes, a mere soldier's blue coat with red facings, coat likely to be old, and sure to have a good deal of Spanish snuff on the breast of it; rest of the apparel dim, unobtrusive in...
Page 259 - Fred, — a name of familiarity which had not bred, contempt in that instance. He is a King every inch of him, though without the trappings .of a King. Presents himself in a Spartan simplicity of vesture : no crown but an old military...
Page 259 - ... like an old snuffy lion on the watch ; and such a pair of eyes as no man, or lion, or lynx of that century bore elsewhere, according to all the testimony we have. " Those eyes," says Mirabeau, " which, at the bidding of his great soul, fascinated you with seduction or with terror.
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Page 259 - ABOUT fourscore years ago, there used to be seen sauntering on the terraces of Sans Souci, for a short time in the afternoon, or you might have met him elsewhere at an earlier hour, riding or driving in a rapid business manner on the open roads or through the scraggy woods and avenues of that intricate amphibious Potsdam region, a highly interesting lean little old man, of alert though slightly stooping figure...
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Page 106 - She loved him for the dangers he had passed, And he loved her that she did pity them.
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