tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90640223849404216222012-01-31T14:46:05.973Z...em busca de John Waters, exploring officer ao serviço de Wellington na guerra peninsular até Waterloo - Portugal na Europa do século XIX... with a great help from my dear late friend Barrie Griffiths...*Helenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00533125432419604193noreply@blogger.comBlogger291100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9064022384940421622.post-2664541100927636802011-03-07T09:47:00.001Z2011-04-26T08:40:27.624+01:00

in History of the Peninsular War By Robert Southey

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Hi Lena,“Wales” is indeed perfectly correct though the name for our country is actually ‘Old English’ and means “Foreigners”, which is a bit of a cheek really as we were here long before they arrived and drove us out of the land now called “England”!We are (so we are told) together with the Irish, the Scots, and the Bretons of France, members of one of the oldest races to still survive in modern

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ARRIVAL at Cork - Correspondence with his brother -Sails for Portugal, with an expedition under Sir Arthur Wellesley - Battle of Roleia - Description of Vimeira - Battle of Vimeira- Behaviour of the peasants after the battle.It was on the 25th December 1807, after an absence of seventeen months from Britain, that I landed at the Cove of Cork in Ireland. A thrill of joy ran through my whole body,

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do sítio da biblioteca nacional de lisboa

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Waters, Sir JOHN WILLIAM (1774 - 1842), lieutenant-general, one of the nine children of Morgan and Grace Waters of Ty Fry, was born in 1774 at Cefn Cribwr, Glamorgan. His father and mother died young.His elder brother Edmund supported his brother's military inclinations and put up money for him to purchase a comission as an ensign, and in 2 Aug 1797* their father's former friend, the Marquess

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explore MAP

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Madame Junot herself is a little woman, with a stature indecisive between the fat and the en bon point. Her face could never have been pretty or beautiful, but piquant, original, and voluptuous, Her eyes are dark and full of fire, and her bosom, though she must be between fifty and sixty, firm and smooth as satin. So that in spite of wrinkles, rouge, and a certain air of age about the mouth, one

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The Court of Napoleon Or, Society Under the First Empire; with Portraits of Its Beauties, Wits and Heroines By Frank Boott Goodrich, Jules Champagne

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in Memoirs of Napoleon, His Court and Family by Laure Junot duchesse d'Abrantès

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"Il est nécessaire que tu t'éloignes quelque temps de Paris cela est convenable pour détruire tous les bruits qui ont couru sur ma sœur et sur toi. Je défie un être au monde d'en parler encore en voyant la confiance dont je vais t investir. Tu auras à Lisbonne une autorité sans bornes. Tu ne correspondras qu'avec moi . Tu resteras toujours gouverneur de Paris. Allons mon vieil ami le bâton de

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"Mais pour donner une idée des livres qui étaient refusés à l'époque dont je parle je vais transcrire ici une liste des ouvrages refusés et refusés avec motif. J'ai cette liste par un hasard tout singulier. Les Espagnols qui la liront se rappelleront parfaitement qu'en i8o5 et 18o6, et même 18o8, les ouvrages que je vais citer étaient encore plus qu à l'index. J'ajouterai le motif donné par

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"The French in the pride of their strength and their ignorance of the national character despised this poor oppressed people too much to be in any fear of what despair might impel them to and one remarkable effect of the general misery tended at once to increase their contempt and their security. There exists in Portugal a strange superstition concerning King Sebastian"http://books.google.com/

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The loss of the British at Talavera, in killed and wounded, was scarcely less than 5000. The two French armies of Victor and Soult were coming up, by forced marches, to cut off the retreat of the british to Portugal. Cuesta would neither march nor fight, and Wellington, more embarrassed than assisted by his stubborn ally, threw himself behind the Tagus. Spain, now left to itself, was instantly

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Wellington got intelligence from his own well-organized service. The best of these agents were four British officers, Grant, Hay, and Cocks ; all excellent horsemen, good linguists, and, needless to say, cool heads... in Secret Diplomacy: A Record of Espionage and Double-dealing: 1500-1815in Studies in the Napoleonic Wars

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Massena entered Portugal with sixty-five thousand men, his reenforcements while at Santarem were about ten thousand, and he repassed the frontier with forty-five thousand ; hence the invasion of Portugal cost him about thirty thousand men, of which fourteen thousand might have fallen by the sword or been taken. Not more than six thousand were lost during the retreat; but had Lord Wellington,

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"Le jour où je devais entrer en Espagne on mit à ma voiture le plus singulier attelage que j'eusse jamais vu। Cet attelage était composé de sept mules n'ayant d'autre frein que la voix et la volonté de leur conducteur, elles ne tiennent à la voiture que par une simple corde"

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0HJ2PrR3YFFXgDnkJCr&rview=1&pg=PA378&ci=105,936,862,638&source=bookclip">Ce fut le jeudi saint de année de 1805, à quatre heures du soir, que j'arrivai devant Lisbonne. Je fus frappée d'admiration et sans me rappeler aucune des louanges qui m'avaient été répétées mille fois de Paris à Madrid, je me laissai charmer par cette magnifique et splendide décoration qui s offrit à moi. Il n'éxiste aucune

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The Life of Arthur, First Duke of Wellington; By George Robert Gleig

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The Battle of Roliça (August 17 1808) the British under Wellesley defeated the French under General Henri Delaborde, near the village of Roliça in Portugal. Formerly spelled Roleia in English, it was the first battle fought by the British army during the Peninsular War.On July 30th, 1808 General Wellesley remet Admiral Cotton's convoy with Wellesley's troops at Mondego bay. Wellington chose this

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DURING our stay at Sobral* I saw another artifice employed by the English, and one of sufficient importance to be worth noting. It is often said that thoroughbred horses are of no use in war, because their price is so high and they require so much care that it would be almost impossible to provide a squadron, much more a regiment, with them. Nor indeed do the English use them on campaign; but

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in Mémoires du général Bon de Marbot

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(...) Then Sir John Murray, with the British cavalry, was sent off to cross the Douro some miles further up; and at dawn of day on the 12th of May, Sir Arthur with his staff, partially concealed from the unsuspicious french outposts by a bend in the river, was eagerly searching for means of crossing to the other side.The eye of the British general rested upon a large unfinished building on the

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