 | William James - Great Britain - 1837 - 416 pages
...Melville), explaining why he had considered Egypt to be the destination of the French fleet. " Feeling as 1 do," he says, " that I am entirely responsible to...conduct I have done. I have consulted no man, therefore the whole blame of ignorance in forming my judgment must rest with me. I would allow no man to take... | |
 | Military art and science - 1840 - 600 pages
...February 14, 1805: — " Feeling as I do that I am entirely responsible to my king and country for my conduct, I find no difficulty at this moment, when...am so unhappy at not finding the French fleet, nor * Clarke and M'Arthur's Life of Nelson. having obtained the smallest information where they are, to... | |
 | Horatio Nelson (1st visct.) - 1846 - 560 pages
...THE ADMIRALTV. [From Clarke and M'Artbur, vol. ii. p. 396.] llth February, 1805. Feeling, as I do, that I am entirely responsible to my King and Country...conduct I have done. I have consulted no man, therefore the whole blame of ignorance in forming my judgment must rest with me. I would allow no man to take... | |
 | William Freke Williams - 1854 - 818 pages
...destination of the French fleet : — " Feeling as I do," said he, in anxiety and disappointment, " that I am entirely responsible to my king and country for the whole of my conduct, I fiud no difficulty at this moment, when I am so unhappy at not finding the French fleet, nor having... | |
 | William James - 1859 - 548 pages
...Hortense and Incorruptible. The Cornelie, after sheltering herself at Genoa, reached Toulon on the 22nd, as did the Indomptable in two days afterwards ; but...conduct I have done. I have consulted no man, therefore the whole blame of ignorance in forming my judgment must rest with me. I would allow no man to take... | |
 | William Freke Williams - 1864 - 786 pages
...destination of the French fleet : — " Feeling as 1 do," said he, in anxiety and disappointment, " that I am entirely responsible to my king and country for the whole of my conduct, 1 find no difficulty at this moment, when 1 am so unhappy at not finding the French fleet, nor having... | |
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - Admirals - 1897 - 572 pages
...misled by the elaborate mystifications of Napoleon, he again brought himself before the Admiralty. " I am entirely responsible to my King and Country for the whole of my conduct ... I have consulted no man, therefore the whole blame of ignorance in forming my judgment must rest with... | |
 | Brian Lavery - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 160 pages
...of my conduct, I find no difficulty at the moment, when I am so unhappy at not finding the French, nor having obtained the smallest information where...induced me to pursue the line of conduct I have done.' The French continued to use Nelson's absences from the station to attempt escape. On April 4, when... | |
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that I am entirely responsible to my king and country for the whole of my conduct, I find no difficulty at this moment, when I am so unhappy at not finding the French fleet, nor having obtained the smallest information where they are, to lay before you... 