 English fleet was paralysed by the mutinies at Portsmouth, Plymouth and the Nore. The sea was open, and nothing to prevent both the Dutch and French fleets to put to sea. Well, nothing was ready ; that precious opportunity, which we can never expect to...  Memoirs of Theobald Wolfe Tone - Pàgina 238editat per - 1827Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1892 - 626 pàgines
...Plymouth, and the Nore. The sea was open, and nothing to prevent both the Dutch and French fleets to put to sea. Well, nothing was ready ; that precious opportunity,...are ready here, the wind is against us, the mutiny ia quelled, and we are sure to be attacked by a superior force. At Brest it is, I fancy, still worse.... | |
 | Theobald Wolfe Tone - 1826 - 688 pàgines
...Plymouth, ami the Nore. The sea was open, and nothing to prevent both the Dutch and French fleets to put to sea. Well, nothing was ready ; that precious opportunity,...mutiny is quelled, and we are sure to be attacked l»ya superior force. At Brest, it is, I fancy, still worse. Had we been in Ireland at the moment of... | |
 | Henry Martyn Field - 1851 - 388 pàgines
...Plymouth, and the Nore. The sea was open, and nothing to prevent both the Dutch and French fleets to put to sea. Well, nothing was ready, that precious opportunity,...and we are sure to be attacked by a superior force." Week after week passed, and the wind still blew from the same quarter, steady as the trade-wind, until... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - 1888 - 472 pàgines
...Plymouth, and the Nore. The sea was open, and nothing to prevent both the Dutch and French fleets to put to sea. Well, nothing was ready ; that precious opportunity,...and we are sure to be attacked by a superior force. ' August 5. — This morning arrived aboard the " Vryheid," Lowry, of county Down, member of the Executive... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1890 - 504 pàgines
...was ready ; that precious opportunity, which wo can never expect to return, was lost; and now that we are ready here, the wind is against us, the mutiny...and we are sure to be attacked by a superior force. . . . Had we been in Ireland, at the moment of the insurrection of the Nore, we should, beyond a doubt,... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1890 - 500 pàgines
...the Nore. The sea was open, and nothing to prevent both the Dutch and French fleets to put to sea. Nothing was ready ; that precious opportunity, which...can never expect to return, was lost ; and now that we are ready here, the wind is against us, the mutiny is quelled, and we are sure to be attacked by... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1892 - 520 pàgines
...the Nore. The sea was open, and nothing to prevent both the Dutch and French fleets to put to sea. Nothing was ready ; that precious opportunity, which...can never expect to return, was lost ; and now that we are ready here, the wind is against us, the mutiny is quelled, and we are sure to be attacked by... | |
 | Conrad Gill - 1913 - 462 pàgines
...Plymouth and the Nore. The sea was open, and nothing to prevent both the Dutch and French fleets to put to sea. Well, nothing was ready ; that precious opportunity,...been in Ireland at the moment of the insurrection of the Nore, we should, beyond a doubt, have had at least that fleet, and God only knows the influence... | |
 | Thomas Clarke Luby - 1880 - 560 pàgines
...Plymouth, and the Nore. The sea was open, and nothing to prevent both the Dutch and French fleets from putting to sea. Well, nothing was ready. That precious...never expect to return, was lost; and now that, at least, we are ready here, the wind is against us, the mutiny is quelled, and wo are sure to be attacked... | |
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