Selections From Private Journals Of Tours In France In 1815 And 1818 Primary Source Edition

Author : Palmerston Palmerston
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333919191
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book Selections From Private Journals of Tours in France in 1815 and 1818 (Classic Reprint) written by Palmerston Palmerston and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Selections From Private Journals of Tours in France in 1815 and 1818 French. That if troops are steady, and the line is well formed, the line will always have an advantage over the column, from presenting so much larger a front of fire; and that by attacking the column rapidly, they are prevented from deploying, which is an Opera tion that cannot be performed under a close fire. The Object of the column attack is to penetrate into the enemy's position and deploy in their rear if he succeeds in this the result is certain. Twice in the Peninsula the French had established a column on our position, at Busaco and Albuera, but in each instance they were immediately charged by fresh troops and the column destroyed. At Busaco the Duke had had a regiment of Portuguese militia to make a road. The work had however been done before they came, and he was going to lead them back. They begged, that as a battle was likely to take place, they might be kept: he consented, and desired them to remain on the very ground where they then were. This happened in the course of the action to become an important point, and the French made a great effort to gain possession of it. The militia soon found that they had made a hard bargain of it, and lost no time in debating who should go away first. The Duke, however, immediately brought up two British regiments, and before the French column could deploy on the ground it had seized, it was cut to pieces. He said he had not above sixteen or eighteen thousand British infantry at Waterloo; that he started with the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.