 Five thousand balloons, capable of raising two men each, could not cost more than five ships of the line; and where is the prince who can afford so to cover his country with troops for its defence, as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds might...  The Writings of Benjamin Franklin - Seite 152von Benjamin Franklin - 1906Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1942 - 124 Seiten
...the line; and where is the prince who can afford so to cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds...a force could be brought together to repel them?" Before this, even before the invention of the balloon, Friar Joseph Galien proposed that with such... | |
 | 1943 - 988 Seiten
...the line; and where is the prince who can afford so to cover his country with troops for its defense as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds...a force could be brought together to repel them?" 10 The wily Ben clearly saw the potential of airborne troops nearly one hundred and seventy-five years... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce - 1943 - 444 Seiten
...where is the prince who can afford so to cover his country with troops for its defense as that 10,000 men descending from the clouds might not in many places...before a force could be brought together to repel them? He was expecting to carry the large number of two men per balloon. Mr. BOREN. He had the paratroop... | |
 | Bart Hagerman - 1990 - 522 Seiten
...1784 he wrote: Where is the prince who can afford so to cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds...before a force could be brought together to repel them? The first to parachute, in this case from a balloon, was an Daedalus and his son ¡cants. From a Roman... | |
 | United States. Joint Chiefs of Staff - 1995 - 114 Seiten
...where is the prince who can afford so to cover his country with troops for its defense as that 10,000 men descending from the clouds might not in many places...a force could be brought together to repel them." Benjamin Franklin Letter to Jan Ingenhousz, 1784 1. General This chapter provides appropriate guidelines... | |
 | Steven J. Mrozek - 1997 - 206 Seiten
...Where is the prince who can afford so to cover his country with troops for its defense, as that 10,000 men descending from the clouds might not, in many...before a force could be brought together to repel them? Benjamin Franklin ( 1 784) THE ALL-AMERICAN PARATROOPER The notion of elite fighting forces is by no... | |
 | James Charlton - 2002 - 204 Seiten
...JOHNSON And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds,...before a force could be brought together to repel them? BENJAMIN FRANKLIN And in the air are no streets, no channels, no point where one can say of an antagonist,... | |
 | Bernd Horn, Michel Wyczynski - 2003 - 377 Seiten
...Canadian Airborne Capability CHAPTER ONE Deep Battle — The Maturation of the Concept of Airborne Warfare Where is the Prince who can afford so to cover his...before a force could be brought together to repel them? Benjamin Franklin, 17847 Benjamin Franklin wrote these prescient words to a friend after witnessing... | |
 | Herman Hattaway - 2004 - 272 Seiten
...Publications (History Group), copyright American History Illustrated. country with troops for its defense as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds...before a force could be brought together to repel them? Franklin accurately forecast several military applications for balloons, "such as elevating an engineer... | |
 | Carlo D'Este - 2003 - 884 Seiten
...prescient 1784 quote by Benjamin Franklin that "ten thousand men descending from the clouds . . . [would] do an infinite deal of mischief before a force could be brought together to repel them."11 Numerous plans (some ill conceived by an untried and inexperienced staff) to employ an airborne... | |
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