 I should stop. Now I have both the 20,000 and the 40,000 at my command upon this frontier; but I cannot venture to bring forward any, for want of means of paying and supporting them. Without pay and food they must plunder; and if they plunder they will...  Life of ... the duke of Wellington - 239 페이지저자: sir James Edward Alexander - 1840전체보기 - 도서 정보
 | 1840 - 974 페이지
...men enough, with the Spaniards, to march on into France and " not know where he should stop," but he cannot venture to bring forward any for want of means of paying and supporting them, for, " without pay and food they must plunder ; and if they plunder they would ruin us all." Throughout... | |
 | Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - 1838 - 696 페이지
...and fed, I should have Bayonne. If I could bring forward 40,000, J.do not know where I should atop. Now I have both the 20,000 and the 40,000 at my command,...expense of 20,000 Spaniards ; but all these arrangements arc easily settled, if we could get the money. Where we are to get the money, excepting from England,... | |
 | George Soane - 1839 - 838 페이지
...Spaniards, paid and fed, I should have Bayonne. If I could bring forward 40,000, I do not know where I should stop. Now I have both the 20,000 and the...plunder; and if they plunder, they will ruin us all." The weather that he here speaks of as impeding his operations continued for some weeks; yet it vcas... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - 1845 - 654 페이지
...Spaniards, paid and fed, I should have Bayonne. If I could bring forward 40,000, I do not know where I should stop. Now I have both the 20,000 and the...supporting them. Without pay and food, they must plunder j and if they plunder, they will ruin us all. Where are we to get the money, excepting from England,... | |
 | Jules Maurel - 1853 - 128 페이지
...Spaniards, paid and fed, I should have Bayonne ; if I could bring forward 40,000, I do not know where I should stop. Now, I have both the 20,000 and the...venture to bring forward any for want of means of paying arid supporting them. Without pay and food they must plunder; and if thej plunder they will ruin us... | |
 | Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - 1853 - 236 페이지
...men enough, with the Spaniards, to march on into France and " not know where he should stop," but he cannot venture to bring forward any for want of means of paying and supporting them, for "without pay and food, they must plunder ; and if they plunder, they would ruin us all." Throughout... | |
 | James John Graham - 1864 - 498 페이지
...Spaniards paid and fed, I should have Bayonne. If I could bring forward 40,000, I do not know where I should stop. Now I have both the 20,000 and the...plunder, and if they plunder they will ruin us all."" 14 M. Thiers gives the following de- hommes de vieilles troupes, il contenait seription of Wellington's... | |
 | 1864 - 350 페이지
...Spaniards, paid and fed, I should have Bayonne. Now, I have both the 20,000 and 40,000 at my command on this frontier, but I cannot venture to bring forward...plunder ; and if they plunder, they will ruin us all." When the Duke crossed the frontier in this campaign, he issued an order in which he said, "I am particularly... | |
 | James Wills - 1876 - 750 페이지
...Spaniards, paid and fed, I should have Bayonne. If I could but bring forward 40,000, I don't know where I should stop Now I have both the 20,000 and the 40,000...bring forward any for want of means of paying and supplying them." The benefit of Lord Wellington's abstinence was probably much greater than the loss.... | |
 | William Henry Fitchett - 1900 - 486 페이지
...wrote some weeks later to Lord Bathurst, " I should have Bayonne. If I had 40,000, I do not know where I should stop. Now I have both the 20,000 and the 40,000 . . . but if they plunder they will ruin all." And finally Wellington sent back 25,000 good Spanish... | |
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