Life and Correspondence of Field Marshal Sir John Burgoyne, Bart, Svazek 2R. Bentley & son, 1873 |
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Strana 334 - ... 4. There is every reason to believe, from the appearance of the maps and from what may be expected to be the formation of the ground, that there is a very strong position between the sea at Balaklava and along the valley of the Tchernaya that would most efficiently cover the allied armies during the operation, but is too extensive to be taken up by the garrison.
Strana 350 - Majesty shall be continued westward along the said forty-ninth parallel of north latitude to the middle of the channel which separates the continent from Vancouver's Island, and thence southerly through the middle of the said channel, and of Fuca's Straits to the Pacific Ocean...
Strana 108 - More will be required of us than we can possibly undertake, . . . and, as les malheureux ont tonjours tort, I expect we shall have as little mercy from friends as from foes ! In fact, we have been engaged in an undertaking for which we had not sufficient means. Our force is little more than half of what we have landed in the Crimea ! Our losses yesterday nearly one half of the forces engaged ! These are tests at least of the exertions of the army : their leaders will, I presume, be the victims.
Strana 100 - He died from over-anxiety ; he sacrificed his life for his country as truly as if he had fallen in the field of battle. Sir John Burgoyne having reported to Lord Raglan that the Engineers...
Strana 387 - ... article from Sir John's pen on his favourite subject of our Volunteer organization, which was by that time making good progress. This article helped greatly in establishing the pheno-menal success of the periodical. In a letter to Burgoyne, in which he warmly praised the article, Thackeray adds:— " I think I needn't tell you the magazine has been an immense success;. such a sale has never been known in England before. The editor and publisher are both reasonably elated, and the latter has determined...
Strana 79 - ... and it is somewhat swelled, but, I hope, will not lame him. " We are all in high spirits at present appearances, and certainly the result, if it turns out as we expect, will show that we have highly over-estimated the Russian military power, otherwise the Emperor would never have left this primary substance of his power, Sebastopol, and the fleet, so meanly protected, after so long a warning of our proposed formidable attack. If we succeed in this final object, our Government, and that of the...
Strana 345 - ... ignoramuses, and do not admit that there can be any military considerations that can be of the least consequence or that they do not know by intuition; hence, the most outrageous propositions which the projectors, however, cling to with pertinacity, and call us bigots, narrow-minded, and fools, because we will not adopt them. You can have no idea of the quantity of wild and undigested propositions that are made to us. I can assure you that the fall of Sebastopol was quite a relief to me, personally,...
Strana 163 - ... Raglan, the hero of the day, is very close upon that age, as well as Sir George Brown, to whom, I presume, they would not object ; and though I ought not, perhaps, to be one to say it, after a peace of nearly forty years, a little of the experience of the former wars is very necessary at starting on a new one. The old gentlemen here, for instance, can set the young ones right in many essential matters, which the latter cannot know by inspiration, and which our army have little means of learning...
Strana 406 - the service in the Line could be made more palatable, so as to induce a more numerous and somewhat superior class to enter as soldiers, it would tend to the greater diffusion of a general military capability throughout the community : and this would bo much increased if, instead of lengthening the periods of service, as is the present effort, they could be much reduced ; and if the soldier of some few years...
Strana 344 - ... than merely given permission to work out his plans, and his great dislike to negotiate with the authorities of the Admiralty.