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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...soldiers could adapt themselves to circumstances with greater facility than could the English was true. A French army was a very complete organisation. It habitually not only reaped the corn, but threshed and ground it in the mills which formed part of its equipment. In regard to cooking, also, the French were far superior to ourselves. But it must be remembered that the French soldier required much less solid meat than did our own men, and that in obtaining his food he was not, as a rule, hampered by ultra consideration for the people of the country. He had no difficulty in making a fire when he could help himself to the doors and beams of the nearest house. The first British soldier doing so would have received 1,000 lashes; the second would have been hanged on the spot. Much of the disorder was due to the neglect or inefficiency of the Staff Officers, although they were not named in Wellington's censure. Colonel Willoughby Gordon, at the head of them, as his Chief openly admitted, "had not turned his mind to the duties to be performed by the Quartermaster-General of such an Army as this, actively employed in the field, and... he has, in fact, never performed them." The duties of a Q.M.G. during a retreat must always be most difficult, and Gordon's incapacity was daily evident. But his case was not solitary. Napier remarks "the discontent of the veteran troops with the Staff Officers. The assembling of the sick men at the time and place prescribed to form the convoys was punctually attended to by the regimental officers--not so by the others, nor by the Commissaries who had charge to provide the means of transport--hence delay and great suffering to the sick, and the wearing out of healthy men's strength by waiting with their knapsacks on f...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781150765247
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 116
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150765240
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 222 gr


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