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The Daily Dispatch: October 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], Wanted (search)
a post, when the Mexicans did not try to take them? How could he lose a detachment, when the enemy was always on the trot? Upon the basis of this one campaign, old Scott is accustomed to class himself with the great captains of the world. His flatterers published in the newspapers that the Duke of Wellington pronounced him the greated Captain of the age. We doubt very much whether the Duke of Wellington ever spent a thought upon him, and his petty achievements. The Duke of Wellington had seen war in India, in the Peninsula, and in Flanders. He had commanded at Assy, at Vimeira, at Oporto, at Talavere, at Busaco, at Fuentes d'onoro, at Badajos, at San Sebastian, at Salamanes, at Vittoria, at Thoulouse, at Waterloo, He had defeated in the field, such men as Junot, as Victor, as Soult, as Massena, as Marmont, as Jourdan, as Ney, as Napoleon him self. It is not credible that such a man should have pronounced such a judgment upon the small potato doings of old Scott in Mexico.
The Daily Dispatch: March 13, 1862., [Electronic resource], One hundred and twenty-five Dollars reward. (search)
, in Portugal, under Junot. Sebastiani (Count)--Born 1775 in Corsica, Lieutenant, then Captain, Major, Colonel; General about 1794, went through all the campaigns until 1815, Ambassador to Turkey in 1805 and member of the Chamber of Deputies in 1819. Segur (Count)--Born 1780, Soldier 1800, Major 1807, Colonel 1808, General 1812; occasionally Ambassador to Denmark and Spain. Serrurier (Count,) Marachal de France — Born 1742, officer at first, General about 1798, died 1819. Soult — Born 1769, soldier 1785, officer 1790, Major 1789, General 1794, Marshal 1804. Suchet — Born at Lyons 1772, soldier 1792, then sub-Lieutenant, Lieutenant, Captain, Major in 1793, Colonel 1797, General 1798, Marshal 1811. Tasher de in Pagerie, (Count;) a relation of Josephine, Captain before 1807, Major in 1807, General in 1814; the end. Teste, (Count,) born 1775, Major at 17, (1791,) Colonel 1800, General 1804; until Waterloo. Velena, (Count of) born 1757, Lieutenant 17<
The Daily Dispatch: April 30, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Good to come out of evil. When the magnificent operations of Succeed had laid the whole Eastern provinces of Spain at the feel of Napoleon, in the year 1811--earning for himself a dukedom and the baton of marshal, and fully entitling him to the high eulogism afterwards pronounced by his master on the rock of St. Helena, that he was superior to Soult or any other of the Marshals — to all human appearance the cause of Spain was lost forever. But the ways of Providence are not to be understood by man. Out of the extremity of evil it often brings forth good, and out of the excess of good fortune it is wont to avoids destruction. These great successes induced the French Emperor to believe that he should no longer experience any trouble in Spain, and that he might now prosecute with safety the war with Russia, which he had meditated for three years, and from which he had only been deterred by the complication of his affairs in the peninsula The result is but too well known. The Gra
The Daily Dispatch: June 28, 1862., [Electronic resource], The battles of Port Republic. (search)
Saragossa, whose courage and devotion presents one of the most affecting stories in all history. The Emperor was preparing to march upon Andalusia where alone the spirit of revolt seemed to be still alive, when he learned by a dispatch from Marshal Soult, who had been left in Castile, that Sir John Moore, with an army too strong for him to resist, had come out from Portugal, and was threatening the grand line of communication with Madrid. Instantly his design was changed. He wheeled his who unexampled in history for so large a force, to Castile, to cut off Moore from the sea. He failed by a hairbreadth. During the pursuit of Moore, he was called off to Paris by tidings of threatening relations with Austria. He left the pursuit to Soult and, freed from his presence, Spain had time to breathe once more. It has often been remarked that, in her days of trial, Spain has always owed her safety more to her people than to her armies. It proved so on the present occasion. In the
The Daily Dispatch: September 22, 1862., [Electronic resource], The policy of England. (search)
ne programme. We could see no resemblance between the movements of the great and the little Napoleon. We did not think, moreover, even though the smaller of the Napoleons were imbued with all the genius of the greater, his army was quite equal to that which captured Ulm, and which Thiers tells us was the finest the Emperor ever commanded. We could not be made to believe that Sickles was as daring a leader as Ney. McCall as thorough a soldier as Davoust, Reynolds as skillful a tactician as Soult, Heintzelman as great a strategist as Lannes, or Cooke such "a bold dragoon" as Murat.--All these the great Napoleon had with him at Ulm, each of them a tool in the hand of the master- workman, exactly adapted to execute the especial piece of work to which he might assign it. With less than all of them — not withstanding the high qualities of his almost unrivalled army — we did not believe he could have captured Ulm, and as the little Napoleon had them not, and as, moreover, Richmond was har
The Daily Dispatch: November 4, 1863., [Electronic resource], From Gen. Bragg's army. (search)
ith horses, wagons, mules, stores, and the like, to a place of safety. I think this desultory fighting will continue for some time; but that the rebels will be forced into a general engagement in the end seems to admit of little doubt. Certainly Hill's corps will be severely handled if it does not either get out of the way or be powerfully reinforced. As for the guerillas, they will continue to harass our rear and flanks, doing much mischief, unless we can adopt the policy of Marshal Soult in regard to them, and hang every man that is caught committing these depredations who cannot show proof of regular enlistment in some generally recognized army organization. The United States armed steamers George Manghan and Ethan Allen, engaged in cruising among the British Islands, have been summarily ordered from some of the ports of Prince Edward's Island. A private letter from an officer attached to the former vessel states that, when at Charlottetown, an order came from the
The Daily Dispatch: August 4, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ich they all so far surpassed the rest of mankind. This is the Conde de Belvidere, a young nobleman, who, on Napoleon's advance in 1808, headed that division of the Spanish army directly opposed to the column that marched under the orders of Marshal Soult.--This division Soult found drawn up in order of battle at Gamonæ, immediately in front of the ancient town of Burgos, which it was its mission to defend. He thought so little of any resistance it was likely to make that he ordered the attacSoult found drawn up in order of battle at Gamonæ, immediately in front of the ancient town of Burgos, which it was its mission to defend. He thought so little of any resistance it was likely to make that he ordered the attack to be made almost without halting, and certainly without dismounting from the post-horse which he was riding — for he had travelled fast to overtake his army, and had found it in presence of the enemy. The effect was instantaneous. The Spaniards, to the number of 20,000, threw away their arms, knapsacks, and everything calculated to impede their flight; broke into a thousand fragments, scattered to all the quarters of the compass, and fled faster than the wild deer of the mountains, Belvide
The Daily Dispatch: October 5, 1864., [Electronic resource], Napoleon and his Generals. (search)
of a remarkable conversation which the gallant officer had with Marshal Soult relative to Napoleon and his generals: "Grouchy," he said, could not command more than a few thousand men. I calculated (said Soult) the value of French generals by the number of men they were capablas unfortunate. I do not like to speak of his errors. Hoche.--Soult knew him well. "I was with him," he said, "when he died; he was poire was no comparison." "Was he not a good and kind man also ?" Here Soult raised his head with great eagerness, and exclaimed in an emphatic rother! You! you menace Napoleon! Oh, Sire! you shock me." (Here Soult put himself into the attitude, and used the same gestures as he hade.) Regnier.--"An excellent officer." (I denied this, and gave Soult the history of his operations at Sabugal.) Soult replied that he waSoult replied that he was considered to be a great officer in France; but if what I said could not be controverted as to fact, he was not a great officer; his reputa
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