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 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1903 - 872 страница
...future prevent Ministers from pretending to direct operations of war in a country at three thousand miles distance, of which they have so little knowledge...or interested advices, or to give positive orders upon matters which, from their nature, are ever on the change.' The gallant and capable Clinton, who... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1908 - 898 страница
...surrender of Saratoga with 4,000 men. 'This unfortunate event,' he wrote to Burgoyne on November 17, 'it is to be hoped will in future prevent Ministers...pretending to direct operations of war in a country at three thousand miles distance, of which they have so little knowledge as not to be able to distinguish... | |
 | 1903 - 696 страница
...these events, considers that Burgoyne's orders required him to force his way at all hazards, and adds, "this unfortunate event, it is to be hoped, will in...pretending to direct operations of war in a country at three thousand miles distance." General Wilkinson says, in his "Memoirs," "The conduct of Burgoyne... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1904 - 678 страница
...future prevent ministers from pretending to direct operations of war in a country at three thousand miles' distance, of which they have so little knowledge...or interested advices, or to give positive orders upon matters which, from their nature, are ever on the change ' (iii, 242). So wrote Carleton, who... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1904 - 676 страница
...in pursuance of a new scheme, the capture of Philadelphia. The result was the surrender of Saratoga. 'This unfortunate event, it is to be hoped, will in...pretending to direct operations of war in a country at three thousand miles' distance, of which they have so little knowledge as not to be able to distinguish... | |
 | Henry Belcher - 1911 - 440 страница
...traced all these misfortunes to Germaine. Sir Guy Carleton wrote a few weeks after this disaster : This unfortunate event, it is to be hoped, will, in...Ministers from pretending to direct operations of war at 3000 miles distance, of which they have so little real knowledge as not to be able to distinguish... | |
 | Walter Harold Wilkin - 1914 - 300 страница
...not yet learnt of the disaster of Saratoga, which drew the following observation from Carleton : " This unfortunate event, it is to be hoped, will in...operations of war in a country at 3,000 miles distance." Germaine was, however, incorrigible, and in May, 1779, Clinton, the new Commander-in-Chief, had to... | |
 | William Milbourne James - 1926 - 490 страница
...before they saw their homes again. Carleton's remarks on the surrender at Saratoga are very apt : ' This unfortunate event, it is to be hoped, will in...pretending to direct operations of war in a country at three thousand miles distance, of which they have so little knowledge as not to be able to distinguish... | |
 | Francis Josiah Hudleston - 1927 - 400 страница
...letter of Sir Guy's contains a very significant passage which is as true now as when it was written : "This unfortunate event, it is to be hoped, will in...pretending to direct operations of war in a country at three thousand miles distance, of which they have so little knowledge as not to be able to distinguish... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - 1928 - 1040 страница
...scheme to the American continent. Carleton vainly expressed the hope that the defeat at Saratoga would " prevent ministers from pretending to direct operations of war in a country at three thousand miles' distance, of which they have so little knowledge as not to be able to distinguish... | |
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