 | Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - Great Britain - 1838 - 696 pages
...could put 40,000 Spaniards into the field, I should most probably have my posts on the Garonne. Does any man believe that Napoleon would not feel an army in such a position more than he would feel 30 or 40,000 British troops laying siege to one of his fortresses in Holland ? If it be only the resource... | |
 | Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - Great Britain - 1838 - 806 pages
...could put 40,000 Spaniards into the field, I should most probably have my posts on the Garonne. Does any man believe that Napoleon would not feel an army in such a position more than he would feel 30 or 40,000 British troops laying siege to one of his fortresses in Holland ? If it be only the resource... | |
 | Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - Great Britain - 1838 - 692 pages
...could put 40,000 Spaniards into the field, I should most probably have my posts on the Garonne. Does any man believe that Napoleon would not feel an army in such a position more than he would feel 30 or 40,000 British troops laying siege to one of his fortresses in Holland ? If it be only the resource... | |
 | Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1839 - 1048 pages
...thousand Spaniards in motion his p*'would soon be on the Garonne, and did any man believe that Napolw would not feel an army in such a position more than he wouM fiv< thirty or forty thousand British troops laying siege to one of hi* иtresses in Holland?... | |
 | sir James Edward Alexander - 1840 - 620 pages
...could put 40,000 Spaniards into the field, I should most probably have my posts on the Garonne. Does any man believe that Napoleon would not feel an army in such a position more than he would feel 30,000 or 40,000 British troops laying siege to one of his fortresses in Holland ? If it be only the... | |
 | Charles Duke Yonge - Marshals - 1860 - 726 pages
...Garonne ; in fact, he did not know " where he should stop. And could any man believe," he asked, " that Napoleon would not feel an army in such a " position more than he would feel it laying siege to " one of the fortresses in Holland ?" He asserted that, " if it were only from the... | |
 | Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - 1867 - 488 pages
...it incapable of fighting for four months, even if the scene were Holland: and it would even then be a deteriorated machine." 'The ministers might reasonably...reputation, would do ten times more to procure peace than tea armies on the side of Flanders. But if he was right in believing a strong Bourbon party existed... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1867 - 606 pages
...the field he could advance to the Garonne ; in fact, he did not know where he should stop. And could any man believe that Napoleon would not feel an army in such a position more than he would feel it laying siege to one of the fortresses of Holland ? ' He had occasion, in the beginning of 1814,... | |
 | James Wills - Ireland - 1876 - 750 pages
...and feed his Spaniards he might have his posts on the Garonne, and asks — " Does any man suppose that Napoleon would not feel an army in such a position more than he would feel 30,000 or 40,000 British troops laying siege to one of his fortresses in Holland ? If it he only the... | |
 | Lewis William George Butler - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1904 - 474 pages
...could put 40,000 Spaniards into the field, I should most probably have my posts on the Garonne. Does any man believe that Napoleon would not feel an army in such a position more than he would feel 30,000 or 40,000 British troops laying siege to one of his fortresses in VOL. II. 51 Holland ? If it... | |
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... by our being in this position, it will do ten times more to procure peace than ten armies on the side of Flanders. 
