I do; I know their virtues and their valor; I know they can achieve anything but impossibilities; and I know that the conquest of British America is an impossibility. You cannot, my Lords, you cannot conquer America. What is your present situation there... The British Plutarch [by T. Mortimer]. - Seite 151von Thomas Mortimer - 1810Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1913 - 624 Seiten
...(Lord Amherst), now a noble Lord in this House, a long and laborious campaign, to expel five thousand Frenchmen from French America. My Lords, you cannot...campaigns we have done nothing and suffered much. As to conquest, therefore, my Lords, I repeat, it is impossible. You may swell every expense and every... | |
| Samuel B. Griffith - 2002 - 780 Seiten
...impossibilities; and the conquest of English America is an impossibility. You cannot, I venture to say it, you cannot conquer America. . . . What is your present...campaigns we have done nothing, and suffered much. . . . Conquest is impossible: you may swell every expense and every effort still more extravigantly;... | |
| Christopher Hibbert - 2002 - 420 Seiten
...impossibilities; and the conquest of English America is an impossibility. You cannot, I venture to say it, you cannot conquer America . . . What is your present...campaigns we have done nothing, and suffered much . . . Conquest is impossible: you may swell every expense and every effort still more extravagantly;... | |
| Ernest F. Henderson - 2004 - 468 Seiten
...general (Amherst), now a noble Lord in this house, a long and laborious campaign, to expel five thousand Frenchmen from French America. My Lords, you cannot...sufferings, perhaps total loss, of the Northern force (Burgoyne's army), the best appointed army that ever took the field commanded by Sir William Howe,... | |
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