 | William Francis Patrick Napier - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1836 - 748 pages
...frequently referred to since with angry deatmciations of its injustice. In substance it declared, " that discipline had deteriorated during the campaign...in a greater degree than he had ever witnessed or ever read of in any army, and this without any disaster, any unusual privation or hardship save that... | |
 | Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1836 - 754 pages
...frequently referred to since with angry denunciations of its injustice. In substance it declared, " that discipline had deteriorated during the campaign...in a greater degree than he had ever witnessed or ever read of in any army, and this without any disaster, any unusual privation or hardship save that... | |
 | Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - 1836 - 774 pages
...frequently referred to since with angry denunciations of its injustice. In substance it declared, " that discipline had deteriorated during the campaign...in a greater degree than he had ever witnessed or ever read of in any army, and this without any disaster, any unusual privation or hardship save that... | |
 | Literature - 1863 - 640 pages
...the disorderly retreat from Burcos, in which the duke said " that discipline had deteriorated dnring the campaign in a greater degree than he had ever witnessed, or ever read of in any army, and this, without any disaster, or any unusual privation or hardship, that... | |
 | JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE - 1863 - 920 pages
...however, in the general order occasioned by the disorderly retreat from Burgos, in which the Duke said, "that discipline had deteriorated during the campaign...in a greater degree than he had ever witnessed, or ever read of in any army, and this without any disaster, or any unusual privation or hardship; that... | |
 | Society of the Army of the Tennessee - United States - 1885 - 604 pages
...been frequently referred to since with angry denunciation of its injustice. In substance it declared 'that discipline had deteriorated during the campaign...in a greater degree than he had ever witnessed, or even read of, in any army, and this without any disaster, any unusual privation or hardship, save that... | |
 | Edmund Yates, Walter Sichel, Ernest Belfort Bax - English literature - 1879 - 780 pages
...most scathing language he had -at command. 'Discipline,' he declared after Burgos, 'had deteriorated in a greater degree than he had ever witnessed or read of in any army.' There was constant work for a provost-marshal and nineteen assistants. The military courts were perpetually... | |
 | George Alfred Henty - Fiction - 1880 - 412 pages
...fall back and unite with him on the Tormes. It was only by some masterly manoeuvring and some stift fighting at Venta de Pozo, on the Carrion, and on...imagined by the fact that the loss of the allied army was upwards of nine thousand, of whom not more than two thousand were killed and wounded at Burgos, and... | |
 | George Alfred Henty - Fiction - 1880 - 416 pages
...fall back and unite with him on the Tonnes. It was only by some masterly manoeuvring and some stift fighting at Venta de Pozo, on the Carrion, and on...imagined by the fact that the loss of the allied army was upwards of nine thousand, of whom not more than two thousand were killed and wounded at Burgos, and... | |
 | Charles Rathbone Low - Great Britain - 1880 - 382 pages
...the General Order issued to his troops at Ciudad Rodrigo, Wellington declared " that discipline :,.tt deteriorated during the campaign in a greater degree than he had ever witnessed or ever read of in any army, and this without disaster, any unusual privation or hardship, save that of... | |
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The number of stragglers may be imagined by the fact that the loss of the allied army was upwards of nine thousand, of whom not more than two thousand were killed and wounded at Burgos, and in the combats during the retreat This number includes the Spanish... 
