 | John Timbs - 1864 - 320 pàgines
...reach Brest, and fail upon Cornivallis, or ivitb his thirty sail-of-the-line beat Calder's twenty, and acquire a decided preponderance. So much for the...and abridged from reviews in the Times. Fate of the Due d'Enghien. While the First Consul was meditating the descent upon England, in 1804, his life and... | |
 | John Timbs - 1864 - 338 pàgines
...reach Brest, and fall upon Corn-wallis, or -with hit thirty sail-of-the-line beat Colder ' s twenty, and acquire a decided preponderance. So much for the...when the battle of Trafalgar destroyed his hopes for ever.—Selected and abridged from reviews in the Times. Fate of the Due cFEnghien. While the First... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1867 - 498 pàgines
...oppose to them an equal force; and during these two or three days the descent might be fully made. " Let us be masters of the Channel for six hours, and we are masters of the world ! " Such are Napoleon's own words in a secret letter to Latouche Treville, dated the 2nd of July.9... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1867 - 498 pàgines
...oppose to them an equal force; and during these two or three days the descent might be folly made. " Let us be masters of the Channel for six hours, and we are masters of the world ! " Such are Napoleon's own words in a secret letter to Latouche Treville, dated the 2nd of July.9... | |
 | Henry Montague Hozier - 1876 - 408 pàgines
...squadrons an equal force, and during those two or three days the descent might be thoroughly carried out. " Let us be masters of the Channel for six hours, and we are masters of the world," so wrote Napoleon himself in a secret letter to Latouche Treville on the 2nd July. Thus was the whole... | |
 | Henry Montague Hozier - 1876 - 416 pàgines
...squadrons an equal force, and during those two or three days the descent might be thoroughly carried out. " Let us be masters of the Channel for six hours, and we are masters of the world," so wrote Napoleon himself in a secret letter to Latouche Treville on the 2nd July. Thus was the whole... | |
 | sir Henry Montague Hozier - 1876 - 414 pàgines
...squadrons an equal force, and during those two or three days the descent might be thoroughly carried out. " Let us be masters of the Channel for six hours, and we are masters of the world," so wrote Napoleon himself in a secret letter to Latouche Treville on the 2nd July. Thus was the whole... | |
 | Guizot (M., François) - 1876 - 588 pàgines
...project of invading England, and had confided the command of the fleet to Admiral Latouche-Treville. " Let us be masters of the Channel for six hours, and we shall be masters of the world," he wrote in a private letter to his admiral on the 2d of July. But... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1879 - 494 pàgines
...oppose to them an equal force ; and during these two or three days the descent might be fully made. ' Let us be masters of the Channel for six hours, and we are masters of the world ! ' Such are Napoleon's own words in a secret letter to Latouche Treville, dated the 2nd of July. 1... | |
 | Edward Moulton Lancaster - 1877 - 354 pàgines
...soldiers at Boulogne, and a vast fleet of transports to laud them on the shores of England, " Let us bo masters of the Channel for six hours, and we are masters of the world." But the fleet, designed to protect the crossing of the transports, was swept from the Channel, and... | |
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Let us be masters of the Channel for six hours, and we are masters of the world ! ' Such are Napoleon's own words in a secret letter to Latouche Treville, dated the 2nd of July. 
