 | 1827 - 624 páginas
...a clean frigate, with moderate weather, and moonlight nights, parting company with his fleet. - - - All rests now upon Grouchy, and I hope he may turn...well ; he has a glorious game in his hands, if he has spirit and talent to play it. If he succeeds it will immortalize him." Poor Grouchy is immortalized,... | |
 | Theobald Wolfe Tone - 1828 - 374 páginas
...his fleet. Captain Grammont, our first Lieutenant, told me his opinion is that she is either taken or lost ; and, in either event, it is a terrible blow...well ; he has a glorious game in his hands, if he has spirit and talent to play it. If he succeeds, it will immortalize him. I do not at all like the countenance... | |
 | 1831 - 366 páginas
...his fleet. Captain Grammont, our first Lieutenant, told me his opinion is that she is either taken or lost; and, in either event, it is a terrible blow...well ; he has a glorious game in his hands, if he has spirit and talent to play it. If he succeeds, it will immortalize him. I do not at all like the countenance... | |
 | Philip Harwood - 1844 - 268 páginas
...spirit and decision did her so good service at Waterloo. " All rests now," says Tone, " upon Grouchy ; I hope he may turn out well. He has a glorious game...spirits and talent to play it ; if he succeeds, it will immortalise him." But Grouchy did not turn out well, and is immortalised otherwise than by success.... | |
 | Philip Harwood - 1844 - 268 páginas
...spirit and decision did her so good service at Waterloo. " All rests now," says Tone, " upon Grouchy ; I hope he may turn out well. He has a glorious game in his hands, if he has epirits and talent to play it ; if he succeeds, it will immortalise him." But Grouchy did not turn... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - 1845 - 576 páginas
...his fleet. Captain Grammont, our first lieutenant, told me his opinion is that she is either taken or lost, and, in either event, it is a terrible blow...pLay it. If he succeeds, it will immortalize him." On the night of the 23rd,* it blew a gale of wind, and in the morning, half the fleet were missing,... | |
 | Philip Harwood - 1848 - 264 páginas
...spirit and decision did her so good service at Waterloo. " All rests now," says Tone, " upon Grouchy ; I hope he may turn out well. He has a glorious game...spirits and talent to play it ; if he succeeds, it will immortalise him." But Grouchy did not turn out well, and is immortalised otherwise than by success.... | |
 | Henry Martyn Field - 1851 - 392 páginas
...general hesitated to land in the absence of Hoche, and with but a part of the army. Tone writes, " All rests now upon Grouchy, and I hope he may turn...well. He has a glorious game in his hands, if he has spirit and talent to play it. If he succeeds, it will immortalize him." The want of spirit and decision... | |
 | Henry Martyn Field - 1851 - 388 páginas
...upon Grouchy, and I hope' he may turn out well. He has a glorious game in his hands, if he has spirit and talent to play it. If he succeeds, it will immortalize him." The want of spirit and decision in this officer, which afterward lost the battle of Waterloo, caused... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - 1854 - 552 páginas
...in either event, it is a terrible blow to ns. All rests now upon Grouchy, and I hope he may turn ont well ; he has a glorious game in his hands, if he...play it. If he succeeds, it will immortalize him." On the night of the 23rd,* it blew a gale of wind, and in the morning, half the fleet were missing,... | |
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I believe it is the first instance of an Admiral in a clean frigate, with moderate weather and moonlight nights, parting company with his fleet. Captain Grammont, our First Lieutenant, told me his opinion is that she is either taken or lost. and, in either... 
