 | Andrew Redman Bonar - 1850 - 474 pages
...also made such short marches, none in which they made such long and repeated halts ; none in which tho retreating armies were so little pressed on their rear by the enemy. The army met with no disaster, it suffered no privation but such as mil;ht have been prevented by due... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - Great Britain - 1852 - 558 pages
...occurred. Yet the necessity for retreat existing, none was ever made in which the troops made such short marches ; none on which they made such long...were so little pressed on their rear by the enemy. We must look, therefore, for the existing evils, and for the situation in which we now find the army,... | |
 | Joachim Hayward Stocqueler - 1852 - 448 pages
...necessity for retreat existing, none was ever made on which the troops had such short marches ; none on which the retreating armies were so little pressed on their rear by the enemy. " We must look, therefore, for the existing evils, and for the situation in which we now find the army,... | |
 | George Jones - Quatre-Bras, Battle of, Quatre-Bras, Belgium, 1815 - 1852 - 748 pages
...made with excellent skill. "None," said Lord Wellington, "was ever known in which the troops made such short marches; none on which they made such long and repeated halts ; none in which the retreating armies were so little pressed on their rear by the enemy. The army met... | |
 | Sir Archibald Alison - Europe - 1854 - 404 pages
...were most severe. The necessity for retreat existing, none was ever made on which the troops made such short marches; none on which they made such long and repeated halts ; and none on which the retroatiug armies were so little pressed on their rear by theeuemy. Yet, from the moment... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1854 - 410 pages
...were most severe. The necessity for retreat existing, none was ever made on which the troops made such short marches; none on which they made such long and repeated halts ; and none on which the retreating armies were so little pressed on their rear by the enemy. Yet, from the moment... | |
 | Friedrich Wilhelm Graf von Bismark, North Ludlow Beamish - Cavalry - 1855 - 492 pages
...severe. The Wellington necessity for retreat existing, none was ever made on which the troops made such short marches ,• none on which they made such long and repeated halts ; and none on which the note.' ' ' retreating armies were so little pressed on their rear by the enemy. Yet from... | |
 | William Tomkinson - Great Britain - 1894 - 392 pages
...necessity of retreat existing, none was ever made in which the Troops made such short marches, none in which they made such long and repeated halts, and...which the retreating armies were so little pressed in their rear by the Enemy. We must look therefore for the existing evils and for the situation in... | |
 | Sir Reginald Clare Hart - Military art and science - 1897 - 394 pages
...the troops had such short marches; none on which they made such long and repeated halts; and none on which the retreating armies were so little pressed on their rear by the enemy." Again, during the retreat to Corunna, though the army had sustained no defeat — had not even fought... | |
 | Lewis William George Butler - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1904 - 474 pages
...have occurred. Yet the necessity for retreat existing, none was ever made on which the troops had such short marches ; none on which they made such long and repeated halts ; and none on which the retreating armies were so little pressed on their rear by the enemy. " We must therefore... | |
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We must look, therefore, for the existing evils, and for the situation in which we now find the army, to some cause besides those resulting from the operations in which we have been engaged. 
