History of the French revolution, and of the wars resulting from that memorable event. 11 vols. [in 12. Wanting the title-leaves of vol.4,5,8]. |
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... flanks were protected by their frigates and several gun - boats , and their vau by a battery of guns and mortars on an island . The position was exactly similar to that of Admiral Barrington at St. Lucie in 1778 , when he beat off the ...
... flanks were protected by their frigates and several gun - boats , and their vau by a battery of guns and mortars on an island . The position was exactly similar to that of Admiral Barrington at St. Lucie in 1778 , when he beat off the ...
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... flanks were protected by their frigates and several gun - boats , and their van by a battery of guns and mortars on an island . The position was exactly similar to that of Admiral Barrington at St. Lucie in 1778 , when he beat off the ...
... flanks were protected by their frigates and several gun - boats , and their van by a battery of guns and mortars on an island . The position was exactly similar to that of Admiral Barrington at St. Lucie in 1778 , when he beat off the ...
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... of foot , and the flank - companies of the 23d and 49th regiments , were disembarked about three miles to the eastward of Ostend with six 1798. ] 27 BRITISH EXPEDITIONS . French soldiers, six thousand stand of arms, and ...
... of foot , and the flank - companies of the 23d and 49th regiments , were disembarked about three miles to the eastward of Ostend with six 1798. ] 27 BRITISH EXPEDITIONS . French soldiers, six thousand stand of arms, and ...
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... flanks were completely turned.- Wishing to make one strong effort , Major - General Coote ordered Major Donkiu , of the 44th regi ment , with a company of light infantry , to endea- vour to turn that flank of the enemy which press- ed ...
... flanks were completely turned.- Wishing to make one strong effort , Major - General Coote ordered Major Donkiu , of the 44th regi ment , with a company of light infantry , to endea- vour to turn that flank of the enemy which press- ed ...
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... flank , the post was maintained until the debarkation of the British troops was completely effected , and a post established , from which the enemy could be attacked with great advantage , had they not re- tired in the beginning of the ...
... flank , the post was maintained until the debarkation of the British troops was completely effected , and a post established , from which the enemy could be attacked with great advantage , had they not re- tired in the beginning of the ...
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31 ページ - Empire, has, in the first instance, been turned to the confusion of its authors ; and the blow thus given to the power and influence of France has afforded an opening which, if improved by suitable exertions on the part of other Powers, may lead to the general deliverance of Europe.
409 ページ - Called by the wishes of the French nation to occupy the first magistracy of the republic, I think it proper, on entering into office, to make a direct communication of it to your majesty.
410 ページ - These sentiments cannot be foreign to the heart of your majesty, who reigns over a free nation, and with the sole view of rendering it happy.
423 ページ - French liberty with the hope of alike recommending themselves to those who live under the feudal code of the German empire; to the various states of Italy, under all their different institutions ; to the old republicans of Holland, and to the new republicans of America; to the...
4 ページ - ... table, and went to their separate stations, he said to them, " Before this time to-morrow I shall have gained a peerage, or Westminster Abbey.
425 ページ - ... if we had seen all the subordinate instruments of Jacobin power subsisting in their full force, and retaining (to use the French phrase) all their original organization ; and had then observed this single change in the conduct of their affairs, that there was now one man, with no rival to thwart his measures, no colleague to divide his powers, no council to control his operations, no liberty of speaking or writing, no expression of public opinion to check or influence his conduct; under such...
429 ページ - Men, women, and children, nay, infants at the breast, were doomed to one indiscriminate massacre! Thousands of them were inhumanly, wantonly butchered! And for what ? Because they had dared to join in a wish to meliorate their own condition as a people, and to improve their constitution, which had been confessed by their own sovereign to be in want of amendment. And such is the hero upon whom the cause of religion and social order is to repose!
413 ページ - ... really ceased; whenever he shall be satisfied that the necessity of resistance is at an end; that, after the experience of so many years of crimes and miseries, better principles have ultimately prevailed in France; and that all the gigantic projects of ambition, and all the restless schemes...
422 ページ - Its first fundamental principle was to bribe the poor against the rich by proposing to transfer into new hands, on the delusive notion of equality, and in breach of every principle of justice, the whole property of the country. The practical application of this principle was to devote the whole of that property to indiscriminate plunder, and to make it the foundation of a revolutionary system of finance, productive in proportion to the misery and desolation which it created. It has been accompanied...
4 ページ - Intending, therefore, to fix himself on the inner bow of the Guerrier, he kept as near the edge of the bank as the depth of water would admit ; but his anchor hung, and having opened his fire, he drifted to the second ship, the Conquerant, before it was clear ; then anchored by the stern inside of her, and in ten minutes shot away her mast. Hood in the Zealous...