 In the attack of a maritime place, some assistance has generally been received by the army from the navy ; but the naval force on this coast is too weak to give us any of the description we require; and for the want of which, we shall now be much distressed....  History of Europe (from 1789 to 1815). - Seite 850von sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1835Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - 1838 - 696 Seiten
...is too weak to give us any of the description we require; and for the want of which, we shall now be much distressed. The soldiers are obliged to work...was no naval force to supply us with the assistance which we should have required in boats. These harbour boats being light, and of a weak construction,... | |
 | Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - 1838 - 806 Seiten
...too weak to give us any of the description we require ; and for the want of which, we shall now be much distressed. The soldiers are obliged to work...was no naval force to supply us with the assistance which we should have required in boats. These harbour boats being light, and of a weak construction,... | |
 | Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - 1838 - 692 Seiten
...too weak to give us any of the description we require ; and for the want of which, we shall now be much distressed. The soldiers are obliged to work...was no naval force to supply us with the assistance which we should have required in boats. These harbour boats being light, and of a weak construction,... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1841 - 948 Seiten
...some assistance is usually received from the navy by the army ; but the naval force on this coast is too weak to give us any of the description I require,...weather permitted, make an attack from the sea at the CHAP. Men could not be more zealous than the British LXXIL , , ... . , . ., -government were at this... | |
 | Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - 1842 - 1008 Seiten
...require ; and for the -want of which, we shall now be much distressed. The soldiers are obliged to wwk in the transports to unload the vessels, because no...and we have been obliged to use the harbour boats of Pasages, navigated br women, in landing the ordnance and stores, because there was no nave! force to... | |
 | Joachim Hayward Stocqueler - 1852 - 440 Seiten
...performance of a rough and laborious kind of work generally performed by sailors. "The soldiers," he wrote, " are obliged to work in the transports to unload the...in landing the ordnance and stores, because there is no naval force to supply us with the assistance which we should have required in boats." He felt... | |
 | Sir Archibald Alison - 1855 - 384 Seiten
...the British troops to the close vicinity of the scene of action, so as to be ready to support ports, to unload the vessels, because no seamen can be furnished ; and we have been obliged to use the harbour-boats of Passages, navigated by women, in landing the ordnance and stores, because there was... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1898 - 1474 Seiten
...do the best I can without such assistance.' ' We have been obliged,' he says in the same despatch, ' to use the harbour boats of Passages, navigated by...no naval force to supply us with the assistance we require in boats.' Wellington, in brief, in this siege of a hostile port, had to leave the aid of British... | |
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