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" The experience of every day shows the absolute necessity that the British army should withdraw from this country. It is useless to complain ; but we are certainly not treated as friends, much less as the only prop on which the cause of Spain can depend. "
The Edinburgh Annual Register - Page 747
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Essay on the Military Policy and Institutions of the British Empire

Sir Charles William Pasley - 1810 - 822 pages
...Wellington observes, in his letter to Lord Wellesley, dated the 12th of August, 1809, " it is useless to " complain ; but we are certainly not treated as...cause of Spain can " depend. But besides this want of good will, which can " easily be traced to the temper and disposition of the Ge~ " neral commanding...
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Essay on the Military Policy and Institutions of the British Empire, Part 1

Sir Charles William Pasley - 1811 - 570 pages
...Wellington observes, in his letter to Lord Wellesley, dated the 12th of August, 1809, " it is useless to " complain; but we are .certainly not treated as...less as the only .prop on which the cause of Spain «1 can depend. But besides this want of good will, which " can easily be traced to the temper and...
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History of the Peninsular War, Volume 2

Robert Southey - 1827 - 836 pages
...on the way, and deprived of all his .barley and part of his bread by a detachment of Spanish horse. Whatever momentary irritation might be occasioned...the British ambassador, " to complain ; but we are not treated as friends, much less as the only prop on which the cause of Spain can depend. But, besides...
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The Dispatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington, K. G. During His ...

Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - 1834 - 606 pages
...shows the absolute necessity that the British army should withdraw from this country. ' It is useless to complain, but we are certainly not treated as friends, much less as the only prop on which the cause in Spain can depend. But besides this want of good will, which can easily be traced to the temper and...
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The Revolutions of Spain, from 1808 to the End of 1836: With ..., Volume 1

William Walton - 1837 - 446 pages
...English envoy on the subject of defective supplies, Sir Arthur Wellesley said : — " It is useless to complain ; but we are certainly not treated as...only prop on which the cause of Spain can depend." The Marquis of Wellesley suspected some members of the junta of treason, and all of them of insincerity....
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The dispatches of ... the duke of Wellington, compiled by lieut ..., Volume 5

Arthur Wellesley (1st duke of Wellington.) - 1838 - 620 pages
...shows the absolute necessity that the British army should withdraw from this country. ' It is useless to complain, but we are certainly not treated as friends, much less as the only prop on which the cause in Spain can depend. But besides this want of good will, which can easily be traced to the temper and...
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The Despatches and Correspondence of the Marquess Wellesley, K. G.: During ...

Marquess Richard Wellesley Wellesley - 1838 - 296 pages
...shews the absolute necessity that the British army should withdraw from this country. It is useless to complain ; but we are certainly not treated as...cause of Spain can depend. But besides this want of good will, (which can easily be traced to the temper and disposition of the general commanding the...
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Modern Spain 1788-1898

Martin Andrew Sharp Hume - 1900 - 618 pages
...his brother the Marquis of Wellesley, at this time English ambassador to the Junta. "It is useless to complain, but we are certainly not treated as friends,...only prop on which the cause of Spain can depend." And again, " I am much afraid from what I have seen of the proceedings of the Central Junta, that in...
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Architects of Empire: The Duke of Wellington and His Brothers

John Kenneth Severn - 2007 - 628 pages
...in a schoolyard brawl, hurled his own battery of accusations at the Spanish allies. "It is useless to complain, but we are certainly not treated as friends,...only prop on which the cause of Spain can depend," he wrote to his brother in great frustration.11 In Seville, Wellesley found an atmosphere quite different...
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