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Updated: May 12, 2025
Some fleeting suspicion I may have had that here was another affair in which you and I had again managed to get confused; but if so the suspicion occurred only to be dismissed. A fortnight before you had left me on your way south to Badajoz, and you will own that to connect you with something which apparently had happened yesterday in a barber's shop in Sabugal was to overstrain guessing.
Meanwhile Pakenham was making ready with every resource known to picked troops, who had charged unshaken through the slaughter of Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, and San Sebastian, and who were about to justify once more the tribute to the British soldier: "Give him a plain, unconditional order go and do that and he will do it with a cool, self-forgetting pertinacity that can scarcely be too much admired."
'See there to the left; and that accounts for their quiet this last hour. He watched the impact of the shot for a minute or so, and shook his head. 'They'd do better to clear the horn work. At Badajoz, now But here he checked himself in time, and fortunately no one had heard him. The men moved on and struck into the rutted track leading from the batteries to camp.
It concerns the commonwealth so runs the legal maxim that there be an end of litigation. And surely this maxim is at least equally applicable to the great commonwealth of states; for in that commonwealth litigation means the devastation of provinces, the suspension of trade and industry, sieges like those of Badajoz and St. Sebastian, pitched fields like those of Eylau and Borodino.
Trant will surprise and capture that, at five in the morning. Just before daybreak we shall enter the town. We must march from here at half-past three." "That is something like news, Colonel," Macwitty exclaimed. "It will cut the French off from this line of retreat, altogether, and they must either fall back by the line of the Tagus, or through Badajoz and Merida." Terence laughed.
What stir! what sea-like ferment! what a thundering of wheels! what a trampling of hoofs! what a sounding of trumpets! what farewell cheers what redoubling peals of brotherly congratulation, connecting the name of the particular mail "Liverpool for ever!" with the name of the particular victory "Badajoz for ever!" or "Salamanca for ever!"
I am in very close relations with both of them, and may they both pardon me; but amidst all the troubles in the colonies, nothing has displeased me so much as the cupidity of this Juan Ayora, which troubled the public peace of the colonies and alienated the caciques. Let us now come to the tragic adventures of Gonzales de Badajoz and his companions.
What stir! what sea-like ferment! what a thundering of wheels, what a trampling of horses! what farewell cheers what redoubling peals of brotherly congratulation, connecting the name of the particular mail "Liverpool for ever!" with the name of the particular victory "Badajoz for ever!" or "Salamanca for ever!"
The march to the sound of which the 49th and 75th regiments rushed up the breach of Badajoz was the celebrated air from 'Britons Alarmed; or, The Siege of Bergen-op-Zoom, by our famous English composer, Sir George Thrum. Marshal Davoust said that the French line never stood when that air was performed to the charge of the bayonet.
In February the Duke of Ragusa had frankly informed him that the armies of Spain and Portugal could not, without considerable reinforcements of men and money, hope for any important advantages since Ciudad-Rodrigo and Badajoz had fallen into the hands of the English.
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