 | William Hamilton Maxwell - Generals - 1852 - 562 pages
...Borgo received a contusion. a " I should not do justice to my own feelings, or to Marshal Bliicher and the Prussian army, if I did not attribute the...assistance I received from them. The operation of General Billow upon the enemy's flank was a most decisive one ; and, even if I had not found myself in a situation... | |
 | George Jones - Quatre-Bras, Battle of, Quatre-Bras, Belgium, 1815 - 1852 - 746 pages
...¿i Ik>rgo received a contusion. " ' I should not do justice to my feelings, or to Marshal Blücher and the Prussian army, if I did not attribute the...this arduous day to the cordial and timely assistance received from them. " ' The operation of General Bulow upon the enemy's flank was a most decisive one... | |
 | Mary Atkinson Maurice - 1853 - 322 pages
...and I am sorry to add that ours has been immense." With his usual generosity he adds: "I should not do justice to my own feelings or to Marshal Blucher,...cordial and timely assistance I received from them."* On another occasion the Duke remarked that had he commanded the same army which he did in 1814, the... | |
 | James Simpson - Paris (France) - 1853 - 384 pages
...hope not severely ; and General Pozzo di Borgo received a contusion. I should not do justice to my feelings, or to Marshal Blucher and the Prussian army,...this arduous day to the cordial and timely assistance received from them. The operation of General Bulow upon the enemy's flank was a most decisive one ;... | |
 | Edward Baines - France - 1855 - 618 pages
...Pozzo di Borgo received a contusion. I should not do justic« to my feelings, or to Marshal Blücher and the Prussian army, if I did not attribute the...result of this arduous day, to the cordial and timely luiiitance received from them. The operation " I never fought so hard for victory, and never, from... | |
 | Ludwig von Reiche - Generals - 1857 - 468 pages
...Pozzo di Borgo received a contusion. I should not do justice to my own feelings, orto Marshal Blücher and the Prussian army, if I did not attribute the...assistance I received from them. The operation of General Btilow upon the enemy's flank was a most decisive one; and, even if 1 had not found myself in a situation... | |
 | Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - Great Britain - 1863 - 764 pages
...enemy throughout the night." He then adds, " I should not do justice to my own feelings, or to Marsh Blucher and the Prussian army, if I did not attribute...assistance I received from them. The operation of General Billow upon the enemy's flank was a most decisive one ; and even if I had not found myself in a situation... | |
 | Charles Duke Yonge - 1860 - 722 pages
...assured him of his intention to follow the enemy throughout the night He then adds: — 'I should not do justice to my own feelings, or to Marshal Blucher...this arduous day to the cordial and timely assistance received from them. The operation of General Bulow on tho enemy's flank was a most successful one.... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1915 - 878 pages
...informed, ' received a contusion.' ' I would not do justice to my own feelings,' the Duke concludes, ' if I did not attribute the successful result of this...the cordial and timely assistance I received from Marshal Bliicher and the Prussian army. ... I send with this despatch three eagles, taken by the troops... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1862 - 738 pages
...Wellington contained these words : " I should not do justice to my own feelings, or to marshal Blücher and the Prussian army, if I did not attribute the...cordial and timely assistance I received from them." Blücher had arrived precisely at the time when his co-operation in another part of the field was a... | |
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Billow upon the enemy's flank was a most decisive one; and, even if I had not found myself in a situation to make the attack which produced the final result, it would have forced the enemy to retire if his attacks should have failed, and would have... 
