 ... 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...  Military Expeditions Beyond the Seas - Pàgina 129per George Armand Furse - 1897Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | John Knox Laughton - 1887 - 492 pàgines
...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...— perfumed like a milliner ;' as it was, he drew up a table of precedence, which continued in vogue till not very many years ago. I have myself heard... | |
 | Sir Charles Edward Callwell - 1905 - 508 pàgines
...rivals sea-sick and helpless on board ship, but had no opportunity of seeing them in their own field of distinction. The pipeclay, the powdered head, the stiff clothing and etiquette of soldiers were all repulsive to the 'tar' of oldeii time."1 It is well to bear this in mind, when those... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1878 - 1366 pàgines
...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...— perfumed like a milliner ; ' as it was, he drew up a table of precedence, which continued in vogue till not very many years ago : I have myself heard... | |
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