 | Barry Edward O'Meara, Emperor Napoléon I - France - 1822 - 560 pages
...overboard, so that they could have offered very little resistance. The French admiral was an imbecille, but yours was just as bad. I assure you, that if Cochrane...they no longer knew how to act in their own defence." When asking the emperor some medical questions, he recounted the following anecdote. "About seven years... | |
 | Barry Edward O'Meara - France - 1822 - 610 pages
...overboard, so that they could have offered very little resistance. The French admiral was an imMcile, but yours was just as bad. I assure you, that if Cochrane...ships. They ought not to have been alarmed by your brulols, but fear deprived them of their senses, and they no longer knew how to act in their own defence/'... | |
 | The Mirror of Literature,Amusement,and Instruction.VOL.I.January to June,1847 - 1847 - 430 pages
...could have rffered very Httli 1 resistance. They ought not to have been alarmed by your fire-ships, but fear deprived them of their senses, and they no longer knew how to act in their own defence.' " In 1814, his uncle, Sir Alexander Cochrane, having been appointed naval commander-in-chief in North... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1847 - 678 pages
...offered very little resistance. The French admiral was an imbecille, but yours was just as bad. I usure you that if Cochrane had been supported, he would have taken every one of the ships." B '2 ga?ereannabiegroand9fijriaspu3aa. The ease was tried, June "21 -t. 1814, be&re Lord EOeoboraagB,... | |
 | James Paterson - Ayrshire - 1852 - 556 pages
...overboard, so that they could have offered very little resistance. The French Admiral was an imbccillc, but yours was just as bad. I assure you that if Cochrane...supported, he would have taken every one of the ships." Ministerial vengeance found an opportunity to vent itself on Lord Cochrane. lie was induced by Mr Cochrane... | |
 | Barry Edward O'Meara - 1853 - 582 pages
...overboard, so that they could have offered very little resistance. The French admiral was an imbecille, but yours was just as bad. I assure you, that if Cochrane...ships. They ought not to have been alarmed by your brtilots, but fear deprived them of their senses, and they no longer knew how to act in their own defence.... | |
 | Barry Edward O'Meara - 1853 - 580 pages
...overboard, so that they could have offered very little resistance. The French admiral was an imbecille, but yours was just as bad. I assure you, that if Cochrane...ships. They ought not to have been alarmed by your Irtilots, but fear deprived them of their senses, and they no longer knew how to act in their own defence.... | |
 | Barry Edward O'Meara - 1853 - 582 pages
...have offered very little resistance. The French admiral was an imbecille, but yours was just as bad. J assure you, that if Cochrane had been supported, he...ships. They ought not to have been alarmed by your brtilots, but fear deprived them of their senses, and they no longer knew how to act in their own defence.... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1863 - 312 pages
...destroyed the whole of the French ships. ' " The French admiral," continued Napoleon, " was an imbecile, but yours was just as bad. I assure you, that if Cochrane...no longer knew how to act in their own defence."' '" He would not only have destroyed them," replied Napoleon, " but he might and would have taken them... | |
 | Henry Stewart (M.A.) - 1879 - 392 pages
...Calcutta in the presence of the enemy, suffered death on board the admiral's ship. Napoleon's opinion was that if Cochrane had been supported he would have taken every one of the French ships. The victory, however, partial as it was, led to the capture of the French West India... | |
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but yours was just as bad. I assure you that, if Cochrane had been supported, he would have taken every one of the ships. They ought not to have been alarmed by your brulots, but fear deprived them of their senses, and they no longer knew how to act in... 
