 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1836 - 562 стор.
...the Duke of Marlborough and the English ministers. " I am so entirely convinced," wrote the former, " that nothing can be done " effectually without the...conjure you, " if possible, to take Port Mahon."* These instructions were received by General Stanhope, when yet encamped with Marshal Staremberg, near... | |
 | John Hill Burton - 1880 - 368 стор.
...that Marlborough wrote the words, " I am so entirely convinced that nothing can be done sufficiently without the fleet, that I conjure you if possible to take Port Mahon." The attacking force was mixed, but there was a significance of ulterior design in the garrison left... | |
 | John Hill Burton - 1880 - 374 стор.
...that Marlborough wrote the words, " I am so entirely convinced that nothing can be done sufficiently without the fleet, that I conjure you if possible to take Port Mahon." The attacking force was mixed, but there was a significance of ulterior design in the garrison left... | |
 | Walter Frewen Lord - 1901 - 362 стор.
...more pressingly.J "' * MARLBOROUGH TO STANHOPE. "Camp Werwick, "July IS, 1708. PS Autograph. — " I am so entirely convinced that nothing can be done...that I conjure you, if possible, to take Port Mahon." MARLBOROUGH TO COUNT WRATISLAW. "Camp Werwick, "July 15, 1708. " Everybody is agreed as to the necessity... | |
 | Sir Clements Robert Markham - 1908 - 340 стор.
...of Minorca with its excellent harbour. The Duke of Marlborough wrote to General Stanhope saying : ' I am so entirely convinced that nothing can be done...that I conjure you, if possible, to take Port Mahon.' Lord Godolphin sent out instructions to the same effect, which reached Stanhope when he was encamped... | |
 | William Hunt, Reginald Lane Poole - 1912 - 610 стор.
...the necessity of a winter harbour in the Mediterranean. In July of this year he wrote to Stanhope : " I am so entirely convinced that nothing can be done...that I conjure you if possible to take Port Mahon ". At Stanhope's instance, Leake arrived before Port Mahon, the harbour of Minorca, on September 5,... | |
 | Sir George Aston - 1927 - 244 стор.
...unerring eye fell upon it, and he writes in 1708 : ' I am so entirely convinced that nothing can be done without the fleet that I conjure you if possible to take Port Mahone.' So Mahon was taken, and with Mahon and Gibraltar the fleet could act with terrible effectiveness.... | |
 | Julian Stafford Corbett, Sir Julian Sir Julian Corbett - 2007 - 625 стор.
...the best judges of what may be done with safety in this case.' Then in a postscript he adds with his own hand, ' I am so entirely convinced that nothing...fleet that I conjure you if possible to take Port Mabon and to let me have your reasons for any other port that I may continue to press them in England.'... | |
 | Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies - 1909 - 358 стор.
...that of land. There are many more precautions to take, and you and I are not capable of judging them." "I am so entirely convinced that nothing can be done...and to let me have "your reasons for any other port, that I may continue to press them in England."3 It is for the statesman to determine the objective... | |
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I am so entirely convinced that nothing can be done effectually without the fleet, that I conjure you, if possible, to take Port Mahon... 