The Autobiography of Lieutenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G.C.B.J. Murray, 1901 |
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1st Hussars 2nd Battalion 3rd Division 4th Division 52nd Regiment Admiral advance afternoon afterwards Alemtejo arms army arrived attack baggage bank Barnard battle Battle of Bladensburg battle of Vittoria beautiful Beckwith bivouac bridge brother Cadoux Captain cavalry Charlie Charlie Beckwith Ciudad Rodrigo Colonel Colborne column command Company corps Craufurd daylight delight Dragoons Duke Duke's duty enemy enemy's father fight fire Fitzroy Somerset French gallant galloped gave happy Harry Smith head heard horse Hussars James Kempt John Lambert Juana killed knew laughed Light Division look mare morning moved night noble fellow officer Padre picquets poor portmanteau position reached rear redoubt retired retreat ride Rifle Brigade Riflemen river road rode Ross says sent shot Sir Edward Pakenham Skerrett skirmishing soldiers soon Spanish Stewart storm told took troops Vandeleur village Waterloo Wellington Whittlesey wife wounded
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364 페이지 - Should fate command me to the farthest verge Of the green earth, to distant, barbarous climes, Rivers unknown to song, — where first the sun Gilds Indian mountains, or his setting beam Flames on the...
70 페이지 - ... irresistibly attractive, surmounting a figure cast in nature's fairest mould, that to look at her was to love her ; and I did love her, but I never told my love, and in the mean time another and more impudent fellow stepped in and won her ! But yet I was happy, for in him she found such a one as her loveliness and her misfortunes claimed — a man of honour, and a husband in every way worthy of her ! ' That a being so young, so lovely, and so interesting, just emancipated from the gloom of a...
70 페이지 - About a year after we became acquainted, I remember that our Battalion was one day moving down to battle, and had occasion to pass by the lone country-house in which she had been lodged. The situation was so near to the outposts, and a battle certain, I concluded that...
319 페이지 - How happy the soldier, who lives on his pay, And spends half-a-crown out of sixpence a day ; He fears neither justices, warrants, or bums, But pays all his debts with the roll of his drums.
235 페이지 - Smith, most Commanders-in-Chief have many difficulties to contend with, but surely none like mine. The dam, as you heard me say it would, gave way, and Thornton's people will be of no use whatever to the general attack." I said, " So impressed have you ever been, so obvious is it in every military point of view, we should possess the right bank of the river, and thus enfilade and divert the attention of the enemy ; there is still time before daylight to retire the columns now. We are under the enemy's...
200 페이지 - Madison of the defeat of our troops, that he had prepared a supper for the expected conquerors ; and when our advanced party entered the President's house, they found a table laid with forty covers.
71 페이지 - more impudent fellow ', and if any reward is due to a soldier, never was one so honoured and distinguished as I have been by the possession of this dear child (for she was little more than a child at this moment), one with a sense of honour no knight ever exceeded in the most romantic days of chivalry, an understanding superior to her years, a masculine mind with a force of character no consideration could turn from her own just sense of rectitude...
68 페이지 - I was conversing with a friend the day after, at the door of his tent, when we observed two ladies coming from the city, who made directly towards us ; they seemed both young, and when they came near, the elder of the two threw back her mantilla to address us, showing a remarkably handsome figure, with fine features ; but her sallow, sunburnt, and careworn, though still youthful, countenance showed that in her " the time for tender thoughts and soft endearments had fled away and gone." ' She at once...
308 페이지 - ... the army of occupation at large, expressed his sentiments regarding the conduct of, and his obligation to, the General Officers and Officers of that army. These are especially due to the General Officers and Officers of the British Contingent ; and he begs them to accept...
200 페이지 - Colborne would have done the same thing with probably a loss of 40 or 50, and we entered Washington for the barbarous purpose of destroying the city. Admiral Cockburn would have burnt the whole, but Ross would only consent to the burning of the public buildings. I had no objection to burn arsenals, dockyards, frigates building, stores, barracks, etc., but well do I recollect that, fresh from the Duke's humane warfare in the South of France, we were horrified at the order to burn the elegant Houses...