Peninsula and South of France, 1813-1814

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455 ページ - I have the honour to be, with great respect, my Lord, your Lordship's " Most obedient and obliged servant,
181 ページ - Gentlemen of the House of Commons, " I have directed the estimates for the ensuing year to be laid before you.
180 ページ - Whilst the perseverance and gallantry displayed by the allied forces of every description engaged in this conflict have exalted to the highest pitch of glory their military character, you will, I am persuaded, agree with me in rendering the full tribute of applause to those sovereigns and Princes who, in this sacred cause of national independence, have so eminently distinguished themselves as the leaders of the armies of their respective nations.
311 ページ - We have found the French people exactly what we might expect (not from the lying accounts in the French newspapers, copied into all the others of the world, and believed by everybody, notwithstanding the internal sense of every man of their falsehood, but) from what we knew of the government of Napoleon, and the oppression of all descriptions under which his subjects have laboured. It is not easy to describe the detestation of this man. What do you think of the French people running into our posts...
136 ページ - Sa majesté impériale n'a pu se livrer longtemps à de si belles espérances : un an était à peine écoulé depuis l'époque qui semblait mettre le comble à la gloire militaire du souverain de la France, et rien ne paraissait plus manquer à sa prospérité, pour autant qu'elle dépendait de son attitude et de son influence au dehors, quand de nouvelles réunions au territoire français , d'états jusqu'alors indépendans , de nouveaux morcellemens et déchiremens de l'empire d'Allemagne...
55 ページ - Captain and you are also to observe and follow such Orders and Directions as you shall from time to time receive from...
49 ページ - Ireland during the course of the war; and that the same be communicated to them, by the commanding officers of the several corps, who are desired to thank them for their meritorious conduct.
180 ページ - Marquess of Wellington, and the steadiness and unconquerable spirit which have been equally displayed by the troops of the three nations united under his command. The termination of the Armistice in the north of Europe, and the declaration of war by the Emperor of Austria against France, have been most happily accompanied by a system of cordial union and concert amongst the allied powers. The effects of this union have even surpassed those expectations which it was calculated to excite.
65 ページ - Offence committed against the Property or Person of any Inhabitant of or Resident in any such Countries...
180 ページ - I may rely, with the fullest confidence, on your disposition to enable me to afford the necessary assistance in support of a system of alliance, which, originating chiefly in the magnanimous and disinterested views of the Emperor of Russia, and followed up as it has been with corresponding energy by the other allied powers, has produced a change the most momentous in the affairs of the continent. I shall direct copies of the several conventions which I have concluded with the northern powers to be...

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