 | 1815 - 628 páginas
...Darlmore ncnot. Sent, llth; James II <H, seaored us with a highsr destiny— we ai* in tended to seek and to fight the enemy's fleet. This is the great...not be diverted in my efforts to effectuate it by apy sinister attempt to render us subordinate to, or an appendage of, the army. We have one common... | |
 | Samuel R. Brown - 1815 - 382 páginas
...But, sir, the Secretary of the Navy has honored us with a higher destiny — we are intended to seek and to fight the enemy's fleet. This is the great...the government in creating this fleet ; and I shall jiot be diverted in my efforts to effectuate it by any sinister attempt to render us subordinate to,"or... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1882 - 310 páginas
...object. * * * We are intended to seek and fight the enemy's fleet, and I shall not be diverted from my efforts to effectuate it by any sinister attempt...us subordinate to, or an appendage of, the army." That is, by any " sinister attempt " to make him co-operate intelligently in a really well-concerted... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1882 - 326 páginas
...object. . . . We are intended to seek and fight the enemy's fleet, and I shall not be diverted from my efforts to effectuate it by any sinister attempt...us subordinate to, or an appendage of, the army." That is, by any "sinister attempt" to make him co-operate intelligently in a really well-concerted... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1882 - 528 páginas
...object. * * * We are intended to seek and fight the enemy's fleet, and I shall not be diverted from my efforts to effectuate it by any sinister attempt...us subordinate to, or an appendage of, the army." That is, by any " sinister attempt " to make him co-operate intelligently in a really well-concerted... | |
 | John Randolph Spears - 1897 - 518 páginas
...fleet. He wrote, when asked to co-operate in the invasion of Canada, that he thought the request was a " sinister attempt to render us subordinate to, or an appendage of, the army." Then, in an attempt to pose as a gallant knight, he writes that, " to deprive the enemy of an apology... | |
 | J. Gordon Mowat, John Alexander Cooper, Newton MacTavish - 1903 - 628 páginas
...primary object. We are intended to seek and fight the enemy's fleet, and I shall not be diverted from my efforts to effectuate it by any sinister attempt...us subordinate to, or an appendage of, the army." This, no doubt, was a fine example of American independence, but it was rather hard on the general... | |
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - 1905 - 568 páginas
...but, Sir, the Secretary of the Navy has honored us with a higher destiny — we are intended to seek and to fight the enemy's fleet. This is the great...us subordinate to, or an appendage of, the army." It would be difficult to cite an apter instance of wresting sound principles to one's own destruction.... | |
 | James Hannay - 1905 - 398 páginas
...primary object. We are intended to seek and fight the enemy's fleet, and I shall not be diverted from my efforts to effectuate it by any sinister attempt...us subordinate to, or an appendage of, the army." This, no doubt, was a fine example of American independence, but it was rather hard on the general... | |
 | Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas - 1906 - 298 páginas
...Secretary of the Navy,' he continued, ' has honoured us with a higher destiny ; we are intended to seek and to fight the enemy's fleet. This is the great...us subordinate to, or an appendage of, the army.' The net result was that he did not leave Sackett's Harbour and make his way up the lake till August... | |
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Sir, the Secretary of the Navy has honored us with a higher destiny — we are intended to seek and to fight the enemy's fleet. This is the great purpose of the Government in creating this fleet ; and I shall not be diverted in my efforts to effectuate... 
