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" You will feel it as a compliment if I say that the result of our meeting may be the most grateful service I can render to my country; and I doubt not that you, equally confident of success, will feel convinced that it is only by repeated triumphs, in... "
New General Biographical Dictionary - Page 83
by Hugh James Rose - 1848
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The Port Folio

1813 - 716 pages
...• cmfuk'ut pf success, will feel convinced thai it is only by repeated triumphs in even combats, that your little navy can now hope to console your country for the loss of that trade it cap no, longer protect." The style of this letter, with the exception of the puerile brat vado about...
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The Historical Register of the United States: From the declaration of war in ...

Thomas H. Palmer - 1814 - 504 pages
...equally confident of success, will feel convinced that it is only by repeated triumphs in even combats, that your little navy can now hope to console your...the loss of that trade it can no longer protect.' " The style of this letter, with the exception of the puerile bravado about commodore Rodgers, is frank...
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A Full and Correct Account of the Chief Naval Occurrences of the Late War ...

William James - 1817 - 788 pages
...equally confident of success, will feel convinced, that it is only by repeated triumphs in even combats that your little navy can now hope to console your...for the loss of that trade it can no longer protect. Favor ma with a speedy reply. We are short of provisions and water, and cannot stay long here. I Iiave...
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Journals of the Ocean: And Other Miscellaneous Poems

William Augustus Weaver - 1826 - 242 pages
...equally confident of success, will feel convinced, that it is only the repeated triumphs in even combats, that your little navy can now hope to console your...cannot stay long here. I have the honour to be, sir, Your obedient humble servant — (Signed,) PBV BROKE, Capt. of HB Jtf. Ship Shannon. NB For the general...
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The Naval Monument: Containing Official and Other Accounts of All the ...

Abel Bowen - 1830 - 410 pages
...equally confident of success, will feel convinced, that it is only by repeated triumphs in even combats that your little navy can now hope to console your...cannot stay long here. I have the honour to be, sir> your obedient humble servant. (Signtd) PBV BROKE, Capt. of HB J\f. ihip NB For the general service...
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American Naval Battles: Being a Complete History of the Battles Fought by ...

1831 - 338 pages
...equally confident of success, will feel convinced that it is only by repeated triumphs in even combats, that your little navy can now hope to console your...the loss of that trade it can no longer protect.' " The style of this letter, with the exception of the puerile bravado about commodore Rodgers, is frank...
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Tales of the wars; or, Naval and military chronicle

1836 - 884 pages
...equally confident of success, will feel convinced that it is only by repeated triumphs in even combat that your little navy can now hope to console your country for the loss of that trade it cannot protect. Favour me with a speedy reply. \Ve are short of provisions and water, and cannot stay...
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Tales of the Wars; Or, Naval and Military Chronicle: To which is ..., Volume 1

1836 - 480 pages
...equally confident of success, will feel convinced that it is only by repeated triumphs in even combat that your little navy can now hope to console your country for the loss ofthat trade it cannot protect. Favour me with a speedy reply. We are short of provisions and water,...
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The naval history of Great Britain, from ... 1793, to ... 1820, with an ...

William James - 1837 - 632 pages
...equally confident of success, will feel convinced, that it is only by repeated triumphs in even combats that your little navy can now hope to console your...provisions and water, and cannot stay long here." This letter Captain Broke intrusted to a Captain Slocum, a discharged prisoner, then about to proceed,...
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History of Europe (from 1789 to 1815).

sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1842 - 1130 pages
...confident of success, will feel convinced that it is only by repeated triumphs in even combat, that you can console your country for the loss of that trade it...: we are short of provisions and water, and cannot remain long here."— JAMES, vi. 199. CHAP, and soon the Chesapeake was under way, surrounded LXXVI...
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