| Edmund Burke - History - 1815 - 858 pages
...station, to be his avowed purpose to employ the force under his direction in destroying and laying waste such towns and districts upon the coast as may be found assailable, under [187 under the pretext of retaliation for a wanton destruction commuted by the army of the United... | |
| United States - 1814 - 258 pages
...conformably with the nature of the Governour-General's application, to issue to flic naval force, under my command, an order to destroy and lay waste such towns and districts upon the coast, us may be found assailable-. I had hoped that this contest would have terminated, without my being... | |
| English poetry - 1815 - 992 pages
...station, to be his avowed purpose to employ the force under his direction, " in destroying and laying waste such towns and districts upon the coast as may be found assailable ;" adding to this declaration the insulting pretext that it is in retaliation for a wanton destruction... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1815 - 1026 pages
...station, to be his avowed purpose to employ the force under his direction, " in destroying and laying waste such towns and districts upon the coast as may be found assailable;" adding to this VOL. LVI. declaration the insulting pretext that it is in retaliation for a wanton destruction... | |
| Thomas H. Palmer - United States - 1816 - 518 pages
...had become imperiously his duty, conformably with the nature of the governor- general's application, to issue to the naval force under his command an order...lay waste such towns and districts upon the coast as might be found assailable. This general accusation was rebutted by Mr. Monroe, in his answer to this... | |
| Arsène Lacarrière Latour - New Orleans, Battle of, New Orleans, La., 1815 - 1816 - 490 pages
...conformably with the nature of the governor-general's application, to issue to the naval force under your command, an order to destroy and lay waste such towns...districts upon the coast as may be found assailable. It is seen with the greatest surprise, that this system of devastation which has been practised by... | |
| Barent Gardenier - United States - 1814 - 442 pages
...conformable to the nature of the governor general's application, to issue to the naval force under my command, an order to destroy and lay waste such towns and districts upon the coast, as may be found available. I had hoped that this contest would have terminated, without my being obliged to resort... | |
| Hewson Clarke - Europe - 1816 - 690 pages
...station, to be his avowed purpose to employ the force under his direction, " in destroying and laying waste such towns and districts upon the coast as may be found assailable ;" adding to this declaration the insulting pretext that it is in retaliation for a wanton destruction... | |
| Thomas H. Palmer - United States - 1816 - 516 pages
...governor-general's application, to issue to the naval force under my command, an order to destroy and «y waste such towns and districts upon the coast, as may be found assailable. I had hoped that this contest would have terminated, without my being obliged to resort to severities... | |
| England - 1834 - 1046 pages
...nature of the Governor-General's application, to issue to the naval force, under my command, an order to lay waste such towns and districts upon the coast as may be found assailable. I had hoped that this contest would have terminated without my being obliged to resort to severities... | |
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