The Nineteenth Century and After: A History Year by Year from A.D. 1800 to the Present by Edwin Emerson, Jr. and Marion Mills Miller, Volumul 1P.F. Collier & Son, 1912 - 1382 pagini |
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advance allies American Archduke artillery attack Austrian battle Bavaria Bernadotte blockade Blücher Bonaparte Bourbon Britain British Cadiz Captain captured cavalry charge Ciudad Rodrigo column command Congress continental blockade corps Cossacks crossed Czar Danube Davoust death declared defeat Denmark despatched detached division Duke early Emperor enemy England English Europe fell Ferdinand fight fire flank fleet forces France French army French troops frigates garrison German Government guards guns horse hundred Indians infantry Italy July killed King Labédoyère Lannes Lord lost Louis Madrid March Marmont Marshal Marshal Soult Masséna ment Metternich miles military Minister Ministry Murat Naples Napo Napoleon Ney's night officers ordered Paris peace poleon Portugal President Prince prisoners reenforcements retreat revolt river Russian Saragossa seized sent ships shot side siege soldiers Soult South Spain Spaniards Spanish squadron surrender Sweden Talleyrand tion took treaty turned United victory Vienna Wellington wounded wrote Wurtemburg
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Pagina 172 - Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory.
Pagina 427 - It is my wish that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people, whom I have loved so well.
Pagina 179 - Behold, here I am ; witness against me before the Lord, and before his anointed ; whose ox have I taken ? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded ? whom have I oppressed ? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith ? and I will restore it you. And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken aught of any man's hand.
Pagina 97 - I congratulate you, fellow citizens, on the approach of the period at which you may interpose your authority constitutionally, to withdraw the citizens of the United States from all further participation in those violations of human rights which have been so long continued on the unoffending inhabitants of Africa, and which the morality, the reputation, and the best interests of our country, have long been eager to proscribe.
Pagina 96 - Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, that no vessel shall be permitted to trade from one port to another, both which ports shall belong to, or be in the possession of France or her allies, or shall be so far under their control as that British vessels may not freely trade thereat...
Pagina 33 - I have only one eye — I have a right to be blind sometimes " : and then, putting the glass to his blind eye, in that mood of mind which sports with bitterness, he exclaimed, " I really do not see the signal...
Pagina 217 - Finding that in your reply of the 4th instant, you have used a language, which cannot be understood, but as reiterating and even aggravating the same gross insinuation, it only remains, in order to preclude opportunities, which are thus abused, to inform you that no further communications will be received from you, and that the necessity of this determination will, without delay, be made known to your government.
Pagina 7 - AH, did you once see Shelley plain, And did he stop and speak to you And did you speak to him again ? How strange it seems and new...
Pagina 315 - We have met the enemy and they are ours; two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop.
Pagina 401 - He believed that they were kindling a fire which all the waters of the ocean could not extinguish. It could be extinguished only in blood ! Mr.