| William Francis Patrick Napier - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1840 - 860 pages
...ten sieges, took four great fortresses, twice expelled the French from Portugal, preserved Alicant, Carthagena, Cadiz, Lisbon ; they killed wounded and...as to his system of war. The French call it want of enterprize, timidity ; the English have denominated it the Fabian system. °yt.P' These are mere phrases.... | |
| William Francis Patrick Napier - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1840 - 868 pages
...ten sieges, took four great fortresses, twice expelled the French from Portugal, preserved Alicant, Carthagena, Cadiz, Lisbon ; they killed wounded and...as to his system of war. The French call it want of enterprize, timidity ; the English have denominated it the Fabian system. These are mere phrases. His... | |
| William Francis Patrick Napier - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1840 - 884 pages
...ten sieges, took four great fortresses, twice expelled the French from Portugal, preserved Alicant, Carthagena, Cadiz, Lisbon ; they killed wounded and...as to his system of war. The French call it want of enterprize, timidity ; the English have denominated it the Fabian system. CH|P. These are mere phrases.... | |
| Joachim Hayward Stocqueler - 1853 - 442 pages
...Wellesley, DD Children of Henry, First Lord Cowley. APPENDIX, No. I. THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON AS A GENERAL. THE Duke of Wellington's campaigns furnish lessons...enterprise, timidity ; — the English have denominated it as the Fabian system. These are mere phrases. His system was the same as that of all great generals.... | |
| Joachim Hayward Stocqueler - 1853 - 450 pages
...system of war. The French call it want of enterprise, timidity; — the English have denominated it as the Fabian system. These are mere phrases. His system...keeping it, with unmitigated labour, always in a fit state to march or fight ; and, thus prepared, he acted indifferently, as occasion offered, on the offensive... | |
| Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1862 - 536 pages
...disaster will be his ruin at home ; his measures must be subordinate to this primary consideration. Wellington's caution, springing from that source,...as to his system of war ; the French call it want of^enterprise, timidity ; the English have denominated it the Fabian 'system. These are mere phrases.... | |
| Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - 1867 - 488 pages
...disaster will be his ruin at home; his measures must be subordinate to this primary consideration. Wellington's caution, springing from that source,...keeping it with unmitigated labour always in a fit state to march or to fight, and acted indifferently as occasion offered on the offensive or defensive,... | |
| English authors - 1876 - 504 pages
...disaster will be his ruin at home ; his measures must be subordinate to this primary consideration. Wellington's caution, springing from that source,...keeping it with unmitigated labour always in a fit state to march or to fight, and acted indifferently as occasion offered on the offensive or defensive,... | |
| William Francis Patrick Napier - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1878 - 654 pages
...great principles of art with the peculiar difficulties which attend generals controlled bypoliticians who, depending upon private intrigue, prefer parliamentary...keeping it with unmitigated labour always in a fit state to march or to figbl ; znd thus prepared he acted indifferently as occasion offered on the offensive... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - Great Britain - 1886 - 406 pages
...spirit of Englishmen, but in all that Napier says of Wellington himself we must preforce agree : ' His system was the same as that of all great generals. He held his army iii hand, keeping it with unmitigated labour always in a fit state to march on to fight ; and, thus... | |
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