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Sir Harry Smith, 1st Baronet
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“If any reward is due to a soldier, never was one so honoured and distinguished as I have been by the possession of this dear child (for she was little more than a child at this moment), one with a sense of honour no knight ever exceeded in the most romantic days of chivalry.”
Sir Harry Smith, 1st Baronet (1787–1860) said by 1860 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is no battle, day or night, I would not willingly redact except this. The murder of our gallant officers and soldiers is not to be believed. ... It was appalling. Heaps on heaps of slain,—in one spot lay nine officers. ... Now comes a scene of horror I would willingly bury in oblivion. The atrocities committed by our soldiers on the poor innocent and defenceless inhabitants of the city, no words suffice to depict. Civilized man, when let loose and the bonds of morality relaxed, is a far greater beast than the savage, more refined in his cruelty, more fiend-like in every act; and oh, too truly did our heretofore noble soldiers disgrace themselves, though the officers exerted themselves to the utmost to repress it, many who had escaped the enemy being wounded in their merciful attempts!”
Sir Harry Smith, 1st Baronet (1787–1860) first seen 1812 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Storming of Badajoz, 6 April 1812
“She was now nearly eighteen, but a woman—not a girl, and certainly a person of most distinguished appearance, especially in her Spanish costume; not handsome, if beauty depends on regularity of features, for she had the dark complexion of the fairer part of her countrywomen, but with a colour beneath the clearest skin of olive which gave a lustre to her countenance—a countenance illumined by a pair of dark eyes ... and an expression which required not the use of speech. ... She had a profusion of the darkest brown hair; teeth, though not regular, as white as pearls; with a voice most silvery and sweet in conversation, and she would sing the melancholy airs and songs of constancy of her country (so celebrated for them) with a power and depth of voice and feeling peculiar to Spain. Her foot and ankle were truly Spanish. She danced beautifully. ... Her pronunciation of English at this period was most fascinating, and when she wanted a word, the brilliancy and expression of the eye would supply it.”
Sir Harry Smith, 1st Baronet (1787–1860) said by 1860 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source