The Quarterly Review, Volumes 256-257William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1931 |
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Page 363
... Wellington knew Soult and Soult's army . He took liberties because he had ample experience of Soult's hesitancy on the battle - field . As he said to Croker , Soult never seemed to know how to handle troops after a battle had begun ...
... Wellington knew Soult and Soult's army . He took liberties because he had ample experience of Soult's hesitancy on the battle - field . As he said to Croker , Soult never seemed to know how to handle troops after a battle had begun ...
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... Wellington stormed Ciudad on the twelfth day after starting the siege : as D'Urban writes triumphantly * he had baffled Marmont , as he had before done every other French General opposed to him . ' Wellington once remarked that he had ...
... Wellington stormed Ciudad on the twelfth day after starting the siege : as D'Urban writes triumphantly * he had baffled Marmont , as he had before done every other French General opposed to him . ' Wellington once remarked that he had ...
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... Wellington's extrication of his army from the predicament in which he found himself when he failed before Burgos as among his finest achievements . Certainly Foy's bitter criticisms on Soult's failure to interfere with the with- drawal ...
... Wellington's extrication of his army from the predicament in which he found himself when he failed before Burgos as among his finest achievements . Certainly Foy's bitter criticisms on Soult's failure to interfere with the with- drawal ...
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