| English literature - 1815 - 1008 pages
...hospitufity (m'asseoir sur le foyer) of the British nation. I place myself under the protection of its laws, which I claim from your Royal Highness, as the...powerful, the most constant, and the most generous of m) enemies. " NAPOLEÓN." " RaAefart, 13/Л July." When Napoleon first boarded the Bellerophon, he... | |
| J. W. Robertson - 1815 - 850 pages
...foyer) of the British nation. I place my self under the protection of its laws, which (protection) I claim from your Royal Highness, as the most powerful,...most constant, and the most generous of my enemies. 'Roche/art, \3thJuly, 1815.' 'NAPOLEON.' This letter was immediately sent on board the English vessel,... | |
| John Booth - Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815 - 1815 - 198 pages
...British people. I claim from your Royal Highness the protection of the laws, and throw myself upon the most powerful, the most constant, and the most generous of my enemies, i : . «' NAPOLEON." '•!• it -i - . .. • . . ..:..•••: ,1 ,.,-... ' .'• • '• . '... | |
| Hewson Clarke - Europe - 1816 - 690 pages
...to seat myself on the hearths) of the British people. I place myself under the protection of their laws, which I claim from your royal highness, as the...most generous of my enemies. " Rochefort, July 13." His allusion to the illustrious Athenian was at once a confession of his errors, an assertion of his... | |
| 1816 - 926 pages
...people. I pjk\c» myself nnder the protection of their laws, which I claim of vour Royal High, ness, as the most powerful, the most constant, and the most generous of my enemies." Bourdeanx, Thoulnuse, Strasbargh, with many other of the frontier fortresses, are still held by the... | |
| Europe - 1817 - 736 pages
...hospitality (m'asseoir sur les foyers) of the British nation. I place myself under the protection of its laws, which I claim from your royal highness, as the...most constant, and the most generous of my enemies. (Signed) NAPOLEON." « Rochefort, July 13, 1815." Upon the arrival of the Bellerophon at Torbay, Captain... | |
| 728 pages
...hospitality (m'asseoir sur les foyers') of the British nation. I placr .ny self under the protection of its laws, which I claim from your royal highness, as the...most constant, and the most generous of my enemies. (Signed) NAPOLEON." "Roehefort, July 13, 1815." Upon the arrival of the Bellerophon at Torbay, Captain... | |
| Europe - 1817 - 398 pages
...hospitality (m'asseoir sur Its foyers) af the British nation. 1 place myself under the protection of its laws, which I claim from your Royal Highness, as the...most constant, and the most generous of my enemies. " NAPOLEON. " Rochefort, 13th July." The Bellerophon was immediately ordered round to Plymouth, with... | |
| Ligny, Battle of, 1815 - 1817 - 586 pages
...foyers )uf the British nation. I place myself under the protection of its laws, which (protection) I claim from your Royal Highness, as the most powerful, the most constant, and the most generous of my ene»ies> " Rochefort, 13th July, 1815." " NAPOLEON." When Napoleon first boarded the Bellerophon,... | |
| Christopher Kelly - Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815 - 1817 - 550 pages
...I place myself under the safeguard of their laws, and claim the protection of your royal highness, the most powerful, the most constant, and the most generous, of my enemies. " NAPOLEON." "The allusion in this letter to the illustrious Athenian," says an interesting writer,... | |
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