 I beg to inform your lordship, that the port of Toulon has never been blockaded by me : quite the reverse. Every opportunity has been offered the enemy to put to sea ; for it is there that we hope to realize the hopes and expectations of our country.  The Life of Nelson - Page 188by Robert Southey - 1828Full view - About this book
 | Robert Southey - Great Britain - 1902 - 388 pages
...lordship that the port of Toulon had never been blockaded by me : quite the reverse. Every opportunity has been offered the enemy to put to sea ; for it is there we hope to realize the hopes and expectations of our country." Nelson then remarked, that the junior... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - History - 1903 - 392 pages
...Mayor, " that the port of Toulon has never been blockaded by me; quite the reverse ; every opportunity has been offered the enemy to put to sea, for it is there we hope to realise the hopes and expectations of our country." ' The date and number of the ships are... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1903 - 432 pages
...' ' that the port of Toulon has never been blockaded by me ; quite the reverse ; every opportunity has been offered the enemy to put to sea, for it is there we hope to realise the hopes and expectations of our country." ' The date and number of the ships are... | |
 | 1903 - 1370 pages
...has never been blockaded bij me, quite the reverse, every opportunity has been oflfered to the eneniy to put to sea, for it is there that we hope to realise the hopes and expectations of our country. A force sealed up in an enemy's port can be neutralised,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1904 - 540 pages
...blockaded by me ; quite the reverse, every opportunity has been offered the enemy to put to. sea, for is is there that we hope to realize the hopes and expectations of our country, and I trust that they will not be disappointed. — Your lordship will judge of my feelings upon seeing... | |
 | Sir Charles Edward Callwell - Great Britain - 1905 - 512 pages
...Admiralty, " that the port of Toulon has been never blockaded by me; quite the reverse. Every opportunity has been offered the enemy to put to sea, for it is there we hope to realise the hopes and expectations of our country." The belligerent with the greater naval... | |
 | James Parker - Spanish-American War, 1898 - 1910 - 358 pages
..."My system,'1 Nelson wrote to Admiral Pole, "is the very contrary to blockading. Every opportunity has been offered the enemy to put to sea, for it is there we hope to realize the hopes and expectations of our country." CHAPTER XXXVII SAMPSON'S UNOFFICIAL... | |
 | James Parker - Spanish-American War, 1898 - 1910 - 362 pages
...out." "My system," Nelson wrote to Admiral Pole, "is the very contrary to blockading. Every opportunity has been offered the enemy to put to sea, for it is there we hope to realize the hopes and expectations of our country." CHAPTER XXXVII SAMPSON'S UNOFFICIAL... | |
 | Esther Meynell - 1913 - 362 pages
...that the port of Toulon has never been blockaded by me — quite the reverse — every opportunity has been offered the enemy to put to sea, for it is there that we hope to realise the hopes and expectations of our country, and I trust that they will not be disappointed."... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1914 - 608 pages
...off Toulon, Nelson declared, ' My system is the very contrary of blockading. . . . Every opportunity has been offered the enemy to put to sea, for it is there we hope to realise the hopes and expectations of our country.' Had a blockade of the enemy been decided... | |
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