 | American periodicals - 1848 - 636 pages
...Portsmouth, and I say that, excepting immediately tinder the fire of Dover Castle, there is not a spot en the coast on which infantry might not be thrown on...any weather, and from which such body of infantry, «o thrown on shore, would not find within the distance of five miles a road into the interior of the... | |
 | Hans Busk - History - 1859 - 488 pages
...Dover, Folkestone, Beachy-head, Brighton, Arundel, to Selsey-bill, near Portsmouth ; and I say that, excepting immediately under the fire of Dover Castle,...any weather, and from which such body of infantry, to thrown OB shore, would not find within the distance of five miles a road into the interior of the... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - France - 1860 - 722 pages
...over again, the whole coast from the North j Foreland to Selsy Bill, near Portsmouth, and 1 say that, excepting immediately under the fire of Dover Castle,...not be thrown on shore, at any time of tide, with nny wind, nnd in nny wenthcr, and from which such a body of infantry, so thrown on shore, would not... | |
 | Joachim Hayward Stocqueler - Great Britain - 1871 - 394 pages
...Dover, Folkestone, Beachy Head, Brighton, Arundel, to Selsey Bill, near Portsmouth, and I say that excepting immediately under the fire of Dover Castle,...with any wind and in any weather, and from which such a body of Infantry, so thrown on shore, would not find within the distance of five miles, a road into... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1871 - 496 pages
...record of those fifteen years seems incredible. For instance, the Duke of Wellington asserted " that, excepting immediately under the fire of Dover Castle,...any time of tide, with any wind and in any weather," etc. The Duke of Wellington's assertion upon such a point was of course conclusive ; it can only be... | |
 | Joseph Irving - 1871 - 1064 pages
...Dover, Folkestone, Beachy Head, Brighton, Arundel, to Selsey Bill near Portsmouth, and I say that, excepting immediately under the fire of Dover Castle,...infantry might not be thrown on shore at any time of the tide, with any wind and in any weather, and from which such body of infantry, so thrown on shore,... | |
 | Joseph Irving - Great Britain - 1871 - 1060 pages
...Dover, Folkestone, Beachy Head, Brighton, Arundel, to Selscy Bill near Portsmouth, and I say that, excepting immediately under the fire of Dover Castle,...infantry might not be thrown on shore at any time of the tide, with any wind and in any weather, and from which such body of infantry, so thrown on shore,... | |
 | George Wrottesley - Mariscals - 1873 - 538 pages
...near Portsmouth, and I ^'"Jite say that, excepting immediately under the fire of Dover Castle, 1347. there is not a spot on the coast on which infantry...any weather; and from which such body of infantry thrown on shore would not find within the distance of five miles a road into the interior of the country... | |
 | Theodore Martin - Great Britain - 1876 - 632 pages
...Folkestone, Beachey Head, Brighton, Arundel, to Selsey Bill near Portsmouth,' the Duke had found, * excepting immediately under the fire of Dover Castle,...which infantry might not be thrown on shore at any turn of the tide, with any wind and in any weather, and from which such body of infantry, so thrown... | |
 | Vere Henry Hobart (Baron Hobart.) - 1877 - 300 pages
...immediately under Dover Castle) there was not a spot on the coast, from the North Foreland to Portsmouth, on which infantry might not be thrown on shore at...any time of tide, with any wind, and in any weather. It is hardly necessary to say that this could not be truly asserted of any shore in the world. way... | |
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I say that, excepting immediately under the fire of Dover Castle, there is not a spot on the coast on which infantry might not be thrown on shore at any time of tide, with any wind, and in any weather... 
