 | William Francis Patrick Napier - 1840 - 860 Seiten
...the world for ages, and to change the scene ot operations for the British army would render it CHAP. incapable of fighting for four months, even if the...believing a strong Bourbon party existed in France and that it preponderated in the south, what mischief would not an advance to the Garonne do Napoleon !... | |
 | Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - 1838 - 692 Seiten
...of which he will be deprived, and the reputation he will lose by our being in this position, it will do ten times more to procure peace than ten armies on the side of Flanders. But, if I am right in believing that there is a strong Bourbon party in France, and that that party is the... | |
 | Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - 1838 - 696 Seiten
...deprived, and the reputation he will lose by our being in this position, it will do ten times VOL. xi. 2 c more to procure peace than ten armies on the side of Flanders. But, if I am right in believing that there is a strong Bourbon party in France, and that that party is the... | |
 | Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - 1838 - 806 Seiten
...deprived, and the reputation he will lose by our being in this position, it will do ten times VOL. xi. 2 c more to procure peace than ten armies on the side of Flanders. But, if I am right in believing that there is a strong Bourbon party in France, and that that party is the... | |
 | Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - 1839 - 1048 Seiten
...resources in men and money of which ih? emperor would be thus deprived, and the loss of reputation would it ten times more to procure peace than ten armies on the side ofFlanJ* liut if he was right in believing a strong Ilourbon party existed in Franft and that it preponderated... | |
 | William Francis Patrick Napier - 1840 - 868 Seiten
...for the British army would render it C"AP. incapable of fighting for four months, even if the 1813 scene were Holland, and it would even then be a deteriorated...believing a strong Bourbon party existed in France and that it preponderated in the south, what mischief would not an advance to the Garonne do Napoleon !... | |
 | William Francis Patrick Napier - 1840 - 884 Seiten
...for the British army would render it CHAP. incapable of fighting for four months, even if the 1813 scene were Holland, and it would even then be a deteriorated...believing a strong Bourbon party existed in France and that it preponderated in the south, what mischief would not an advance to the Garonne do Napoleon !... | |
 | Thomas Philip De Grey (2nd earl.) - 1853 - 226 Seiten
...in this position (further advanced in the French territory than any of the allied powers), it will do ten times more to procure peace than ten armies on the side of Flanders. " It is the business of the Government, and not mine, to dispose of^the resources of the nation. I... | |
 | Charles Duke Yonge - 1860 - 726 Seiten
...emperor would be deprived, and the " reputation which he would lose by our being in that " position, it would do ten times more to procure peace " than ten armies on the side of Flanders." Moreover, " if it were true, as the ministers believed, that there " was a strong Bourbon party in... | |
 | James Wills - 1876 - 750 Seiten
...which he will be deprived, and the reputation he will loose by our being in this position, it will do ten times more to procure peace than ten armies on the side of Flanders. But if I am right in supposing that there is a strong Bourbon party in the south of France, and that that... | |
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The ministers might reasonably ask how by remaining where he was he could induce Napoleon to make peace. The answer was ready. He held a commanding situation on the most vulnerable frontier of France, probably the only vulnerable one, and if he could... 
