The Life and Administration of the Right Hon. Spencer Perceval: Including ... a Detail of His Assassination, &c. &c. ...John Conrad. Sold, 1813 - 328 стор. |
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... British arms , the taking of Curacoa , on the 1st of January , 1807 , with very little resistance , might be enumerated . This was a considerable help to our com- merce , which now began to feel the effects of the Berlin Decree ...
... British arms , the taking of Curacoa , on the 1st of January , 1807 , with very little resistance , might be enumerated . This was a considerable help to our com- merce , which now began to feel the effects of the Berlin Decree ...
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... British Cabinet had adopted the resolution of compelling Denmark to declare against France ; and for this purpose a naval and military armament , consisting of about . 25,000 men , and a fleet of nearly thirty sail of the line , with ...
... British Cabinet had adopted the resolution of compelling Denmark to declare against France ; and for this purpose a naval and military armament , consisting of about . 25,000 men , and a fleet of nearly thirty sail of the line , with ...
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... British Admiral , under the most solemn stipulation that it should be restored at the conclusion of the war between this country and France . Pro- posals thus degrading being rejected , the army landed without opposition on the morn ...
... British Admiral , under the most solemn stipulation that it should be restored at the conclusion of the war between this country and France . Pro- posals thus degrading being rejected , the army landed without opposition on the morn ...
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... British out - posts , with a letter , proposing a truce . " On the 8th of September a capitulation was signed , and the British army took possession of the citadel , dock - yards , and batteries . The Danish vessels captured being ...
... British out - posts , with a letter , proposing a truce . " On the 8th of September a capitulation was signed , and the British army took possession of the citadel , dock - yards , and batteries . The Danish vessels captured being ...
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... British Ambassador and assisted by à British squadron , it is probable all their preparations would have been too late . By way of precaution , as soon as the French had entered Lisbon , the inha- bitants were disarmed , and prohibited ...
... British Ambassador and assisted by à British squadron , it is probable all their preparations would have been too late . By way of precaution , as soon as the French had entered Lisbon , the inha- bitants were disarmed , and prohibited ...
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Сторінка 122 - The troops, though not unacquainted with the irreparable loss they had sustained, were not dismayed, but by the most determined bravery not only repelled every attempt of the Enemy to gain ground, but actually forced him to retire, although he had brought up fresh troops in support of those originally engaged.
Сторінка 114 - Whitelocke be cashiered, and declared totally unfit and unworthy to serve his majesty in any military capacity whatever.
Сторінка 297 - That an humble address be presented to His Royal Highness the Prince Regent to...
Сторінка 220 - In the critical situation of the war in the Peninsula, I shall be most anxious to avoid any measure which can lead my allies to suppose that I mean to depart from the present system. Perseverance alone can achieve the great object in question ; and I cannot withhold my approbation from those who have honourably distinguished themselves in support of it. I...
Сторінка 123 - Upon the left, the enemy at first contented himself with an attack upon our picquets, which, however, in general maintained their ground. Finding, however, his efforts unavailing on the right and centre...
Сторінка 33 - ... demonstrates, in the most unequivocal manner, his own conscientious persuasion of the rectitude of those motives upon which he has acted, and affords to his people the best opportunity of testifying their determination to support him in every exercise of the prerogatives of his crown, which is conformable to the sacred obligations under which they are held, and conducive to the welfare of his kingdom, and to the security of the constitution.
Сторінка 135 - I shall not be condemned without trial, or be deprived of the benefit and protection which is afforded to every British subject by those sanctions, under which alone evidence is received in the ordinary administration of the law.
Сторінка 125 - ... in fact far advanced at the commencement of the action. The troops quitted their position about ten at night, with a degree of order that did them credit. The whole of the artillery that remained unembarked, having been withdrawn, the troops followed in the order prescribed, and marched to their respective points of embarkation in the town and neighbourhood of Corunna.
Сторінка 55 - Every ship, to whatever nation it may belong, that shall have submitted to be searched by an English ship, or to a voyage to England, or shall have paid any tax whatsoever to the English government, is thereby and for that alone, declared to be denationalized, to have forfeited the protection of its king, and to have become English property.
Сторінка 124 - ... his other corps. At six the firing entirely ceased. The different brigades were re-assembled on the ground they occupied in the morning, and the picquets and advanced posts resumed their original stations. Notwithstanding the decided and marked superiority which at this moment the gallantry of the troops had given them over an enemy, who, from his numbers and the commanding advantages of his position, no doubt expected an easy victory, I did not, on reviewing all circumstances, conceive that...