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Adige Alexandria Allies Alps Apennines Arch Archduke arms army arrived artillery assailed attack Aulic Council Austrian battle Bign Bour Britain British campaign cavalry centre CHAP columns command commenced Consul corps Danube defeat detached disasters division effect Egypt Emperor enemy England English Europe favour flank fleet forces fortresses France French garrison Genoa Grisons harbour honour hostilities hundred Imperial Imperialists important infantry intrenchments Italy Kray Lecourbe Limmat Lombardy Mantua maritime Massena Melas ment military Moreau mountains Napoleon nation neutral Paris passage peace Pichegru pieces of cannon Piedmont position Prince principles prisoners rear received rendered Republic Republicans resistance retired retreat Revolution Rhine Richepanse Russian ships side soldiers soon St Cyr St Gothard St Petersburg success Suwarrow Thib thousand throne tion Tortona treaty troops Tyrol valley vessels victory whole XXIX XXXI XXXIII XXXIV XXXV XXXVI
Passatges populars
Pàgina 461 - That the right of visiting and searching merchant ships upon the high seas, whatever be the ships, whatever be the cargoes, whatever be the destinations, is an incontestable right of the lawfully commissioned cruisers of a belligerent nation.
Pàgina 506 - By the festal cities blaze, Whilst the wine-cup shines in light ; And yet amidst that joy and uproar Let us think of them that sleep, Full many a fathom deep, By thy wild and stormy steep, Elsinore.
Pàgina 390 - On Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow ; And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Pàgina 188 - The best and most natural pledge of its reality and permanence would be the restoration of that line of princes which for so many centuries maintained the French nation in prosperity at home, and in consideration and respect abroad...
Pàgina 515 - I have only one eye — I have a right to be blind sometimes...
Pàgina 462 - Two sovereigns may, unquestionably, agree, if they think fit, as in some late instances they have agreed, by special covenant, that the presence of one of their armed ships along with their merchant ships, shall be mutually understood to imply, that nothing is to be found in that Convoy of merchant ships inconsistent with amity or neutrality...
Pàgina 520 - Again! again! again! And the havoc did not slack, Till a feeble cheer the Dane, To our cheering sent us back; Their shots along the deep slowly boom — Then ceased — and all is wail, As they strike the shatter'd sail; Or, in conflagration pale, Light the gloom.
Pàgina 469 - Their majesties engage to unite all their efforts to prevent other powers, not implicated in this war, from giving, on this occasion of common concern to every civilized state, any protection whatever, directly or indirectly, in consequence of their neutrality, to the commerce or property of the French, on the sea, or in the ports of France.
Pàgina 188 - Such an event would at once have removed, and will at any time remove, all obstacles in the way of negotiation or peace. It would confirm to France the unmolested enjoyment of its ancient territory ; and it would give to all the other nations in Europe, in tranquillity and peace, that security which they are now compelled to seek by other means.
Pàgina 547 - It was, however, entered into with his concurrence and approbation ; and, like a man of honour, he felt himself as much bound to see it carried into effect, as if his signature had been affixed to the instrument. But the British Government had, three months before, sent out orders to Lord Keith, commanding the English fleet in the Mediterranean, not to consent to any treaty in which it was not stipulated that...