Account of the War in Spain, Portugal, and the South of France: From 1808 to 1814 Inclusive ...T. Egerton, 1821 - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 |
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1st Bn Adour Alicante allies artillery assailants assault attack attempt Balasteros bank battalions Bayonne besiegers blockade breach bridge brigade British Buonaparte Cadiz cantonments Catalonia cavalry centre CHAP chief Ciudad Rodrigo Clausel Colonel column command commenced consequence Cortes crossed defence detached Douro effect efforts endeavoured enemy enemy's exertions favourable fire flank force ford formed fortress France French army French troops front garrison guard heights Hill Hill's corps immediately infantry Lerida Lord Dalhousie Lord Wellington loss Madrid main body Majesty manœuvres Marshal Marmont Marshal Soult Marshal Suchet ment miles military mountain moved movement Murviedro nearly neral night occupied officers operations Pamplona passed Picton Portugal Portugueze position prisoners Pyrenees rear redoubts Regiment remained retired retreat river road Rodrigo siege Spain Spaniards Spanish strong success Tagus Tarragona tion town Valencia village Vitoria whilst wounded XVIII
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Page 298 - The French army shall carry with it all its equipments, and all that is comprehended under the name of property of the army...
Page 300 - France shall have disembarked it in the harbours specified, or in any other of the ports of France to which stress of weather may force them, every facility shall be given them to return to England without delay ; and security against capture until their arrival in a friendly port. ART.
Page 303 - The French army shall be subsisted from its own magazines up to the day of embarkation. The garrisons up to the day of the evacuation of the fortresses. The remainder of the magazines shall be delivered over in the usual form to the British government, which charges itself with the subsistence...
Page 299 - ... the sick, and the equipment of the army. The first division shall embark within seven days of the date of the ratification, or sooner if possible. Art. 8. The garrison of Elvas and its forts, and of Peniche and Palmela, will be embarked at Lisbon.
Page 298 - The cavalry are to embark their horses, as also the generals and other officers of all ranks. It is, however, fully understood, that the means of conveyance for horses at the disposal of the British...
Page 63 - ... M'Kinnon's brigade instantly pushed up the breach, in conjunction with the 5th and 91th regiments, which arrived at the same moment along the ditch from their right. The men mounted in a most gallant manner against an equally gallant resistance ; and it was not till after a sharp struggle of some minutes that the bayonets of the assailants prevailed, and gained them a footing on the summit of the rampart. The defenders then concentrated behind the retrenchment, which they obstinately maintained,...
Page 317 - It is as well as it is. I had rather it should go out of the field with me ;" and in that manner, so becoming to a soldier, Moore was borne from the fight.
Page 298 - Commander-in-chief may judge it unnecessary to embark. In like manner, all individuals of the army shall be at liberty to dispose of their private property of every description, with full security hereafter for the purchasers.
Page 301 - In either case their property is guaranteed to them, with the liberty of retaining or of disposing of it, and passing the produce of the sale thereof into France, or any other country where they may fix their residence, the space of one year being allowed them for that purpose. It is fully understood that shipping is excepted from this arrangement, only, however, in so far as regards leaving the port ; and that none of the stipulations above-mentioned can be made the pretext of any commercial speculation.—...
Page 298 - IV. The French army shall carry with it all its artillery of French calibre, with the horses belonging to it, and the tumbrils supplied with ,sixty rounds per gun. All other artillery, arms, and ammunition, as also the military and naval arsenals, shall be given up to the British army and navy, in the state in which they may be at the period of the ratification of the convention. — Art. V. The French army shall...