 | Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - 1835 - 540 pages
...if it were not for the horses of the Irish commissariat. Let nobody ever prevail upon you to send a corps to any part of Europe, without horses to draw their guns. It is not true that horses lose their condition at sea. ' I have just heard that Joseph Bonaparte left... | |
 | Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - 1835 - 548 pages
...if it were not for the horses of the Irish commissariat. Let nobody ever prevail upon you to send a corps to any part of Europe, without horses to draw their guns. It is not true that horses lose their condition at sea. ' I have just heard that Joseph Bonaparte left... | |
 | Basil Jackson - 1840 - 548 pages
...Spencer's corps. Gurwood. « Let no one ever prevail upon you to send a Despatches, r . . &c. Aug. s. corps to any part of Europe without horses to draw...« They have great merit in their way as cast-off &c.Aug.i6.' horses of dragoons, and Irish cart-horses bought for 12/. each ; but are not fit for an... | |
 | Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - 1842 - 1008 pages
...if it were, not for the horses of the Irish Commissariat. Let nobody ever prevail upon you to scud a corps to any part of Europe without horses to draw their guns. It is not true that horses lose their condition at sea. I have received your private letter of the... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1861 - 762 pages
...if it were not for the horses of the Irish Commissariat. Let nobody ever prevail upon you to send a corps to any part of Europe without horses to draw their guns. It is not true that horses lose their condition at sea." — SIR ARTHUR WELLESLEY to LORD CASTLEREACH... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1861 - 766 pages
...if it were not for the horses of the Irish Commissariat. Let nobody ever prevail upon you to send a corps to any part of Europe without horses to draw their guns. It is not true that horses lose their condition at sea." — SIR ARTHUR WELLESLEY to LORD CASTLE. REAGH... | |
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I shall be obliged to leave Spencer's guns behind for want of means of moving them ; and I should have been obliged to leave my own, if it were not for the horses of the Irish commissariat. Let nobody ever prevail upon you to send a corps to any part... 