Military Expeditions Beyond the Seas, Volum 1William Clowes & sons, limited, 1897 |
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Pàgina 26
... soldiers quitted our shores , and reached the Dutch coast on the follow- ing day . The main object of the expedition was to take the enemy unawares , and to carry Antwerp , at that time inadequately garrisoned , by a coup de main . The ...
... soldiers quitted our shores , and reached the Dutch coast on the follow- ing day . The main object of the expedition was to take the enemy unawares , and to carry Antwerp , at that time inadequately garrisoned , by a coup de main . The ...
Pàgina 30
... soldiers and marines to be employed as a landing party . Two days later the frigates Carlo Alberto and Principe Umberto brought reinforcements which raised the landing party to two thousand six hundred men , and on on the 20th the ...
... soldiers and marines to be employed as a landing party . Two days later the frigates Carlo Alberto and Principe Umberto brought reinforcements which raised the landing party to two thousand six hundred men , and on on the 20th the ...
Pàgina 38
... soldiers of inferior degree , the army numbered about sixty thousand men . According to the Norman chronicle , pro- fessional adventurers and vagabonds flocked from all parts of the continent and offered their services , so promising ...
... soldiers of inferior degree , the army numbered about sixty thousand men . According to the Norman chronicle , pro- fessional adventurers and vagabonds flocked from all parts of the continent and offered their services , so promising ...
Pàgina 43
... soldiers to gallant deeds before the battle of Hastings , are a clear proof of how he appreciated the danger of his position . He re- minded them that there was no safety in asking for quarter or in flight . Think well , he said , that ...
... soldiers to gallant deeds before the battle of Hastings , are a clear proof of how he appreciated the danger of his position . He re- minded them that there was no safety in asking for quarter or in flight . Think well , he said , that ...
Pàgina 46
... soldiers and stores were to proceed to Canada to enable the French to recapture Cape Breton . On the 3rd of May , a day or two before this separation was to be carried out , when abreast of Cape Finisterre , De la Jonquière came in ...
... soldiers and stores were to proceed to Canada to enable the French to recapture Cape Breton . On the 3rd of May , a day or two before this separation was to be carried out , when abreast of Cape Finisterre , De la Jonquière came in ...
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Pàgina 106 - The armament which the Athenians equipped against Syracuse was in every way worthy of the state which formed such projects of universal empire, and it has been truly termed " the noblest that ever yet had been sent forth by a free and civilized commonwealth." The fleet consisted of one hundred and thirty-four war-galleys, with a multitude of storeships. A powerful force of the best heavy-armed infantry that Athens and her allies could furnish was sent on board it, together with a smaller number of...
Pàgina 37 - Napoleon designed (but providentially in vain) for a similar descent upon England. It was not till the approach of the equinox that the wind veered from the north-east to the west, and gave the Normans an opportunity of quitting the weary shores of the Dive. They eagerly embarked, and set sail, but the wind soon freshened to a gale ; and drove them along the French coast to St. Valery, where the greater part of them found shelter ; but many of their vessels were wrecked, and the whole coast of Normandy...
Pàgina 331 - You have saved all your material, all your trains, and all your guns, except a few lost in battle, taking, in return, guns and colors from the enemy.
Pàgina 335 - Load every wagon you have with subsistence, and send them to Savage's station, by way of Bottom's bridge. If you are obliged to abandon White House, burn everything that you cannot get off. You must throw all our supplies up the James river as soon as possible, and accompany them yourself with all your force. It will be of vast importance to establish our depots on James river without delay if we abandon White House. I will keep you advised of every movement so long as the wires work ; after that...
Pàgina 333 - Had General McDowell joined me by water, I could have approached Richmond by the James, and thus avoided the delays and losses incurred in bridging the Chickahominy, and would have had the army massed in one body instead of being necessarily divided by that stream.
Pàgina 318 - I have found out that an Admiral should endeavour to run into an enemy's port immediately after he appears before it; that he should anchor the transport ships and frigates as close as he can to the land; that he should reconnoitre and observe it as quick as possible, and lose no time in getting the troops on shore...
Pàgina 364 - Armies neither fly, nor run post," saith a marshal of France. And I know it to be true, that a fleet of ships may be seen at sunset, and after it, at the Lizard; yet by the next morning they may recover Portland; whereas an army of foot shall not be able to march it in six days.
Pàgina 150 - The backwardness of some of the older officers has in some measure forced the Government to come down so low. I shall do my best, and leave the rest to fortune, as perforce we must when there are not the most commanding abilities. We expect to sail in about three weeks. A London life and little exercise disagrees entirely with me, but the sea still more.
Pàgina 118 - ... was equally clear that those objects ' were to be accomplished by no other means — ' because a peace which should leave Russia in ' possession of the same means of aggression ' would only enable her to recommence the war
Pàgina 129 - ... point of fact this quarrel between Flobert and Thurot was an extreme instance of a cause which, in the last century, and in England more than in France, rendered futile so very many expeditions in which sea and land forces were required to act in conjunction. Of these Vernon's failure at Cartagena in 1741 was perhaps the most marked and the most disastrous ; but there were scores of others ; and the constant recurrence of difficulties seems to point to a radically false system and an honest misunderstanding,...