Burke, Select Works: Four letters on the proposals for peace with the regicide directory of France. New ed. 1892Clarendon Press, 1892 |
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Page viii
... Italy except the Republics of Venice and Genoa , were at war with the French Republic . Pitted against such a Coalition France might well expect reverses . She could hardly expect to keep her bold and reckless conquests : she might well ...
... Italy except the Republics of Venice and Genoa , were at war with the French Republic . Pitted against such a Coalition France might well expect reverses . She could hardly expect to keep her bold and reckless conquests : she might well ...
Page xi
... Italian State led the way . Tuscany is by nature indefensible ; and the fact that its only commercial centre of any importance , the port of Leghorn , was at the mercy of the 1 Remarks on the Policy of the Allies , 1793 . 1 Toulon fleet ...
... Italian State led the way . Tuscany is by nature indefensible ; and the fact that its only commercial centre of any importance , the port of Leghorn , was at the mercy of the 1 Remarks on the Policy of the Allies , 1793 . 1 Toulon fleet ...
Page xxix
... Italy . The plan of the war was bold and simple . On the Rhine were Jourdan and Moreau : in Italy Bonaparte had established a base of operations by the submission of Sardinia . Jourdan and Moreau were to unite and advance down the ...
... Italy . The plan of the war was bold and simple . On the Rhine were Jourdan and Moreau : in Italy Bonaparte had established a base of operations by the submission of Sardinia . Jourdan and Moreau were to unite and advance down the ...
Page xxx
... Italy a campaign more rapid and more brilliant than anything on re- cord had been made by the youthful protégé of Barras . A force of forty thousand picked French troops , well inured to a hot climate by service against Spain in the ...
... Italy a campaign more rapid and more brilliant than anything on re- cord had been made by the youthful protégé of Barras . A force of forty thousand picked French troops , well inured to a hot climate by service against Spain in the ...
Page xxxi
... Italy far outweighed the disasters in Germany and the Directory might very well imagine that the latter rather than the former had suggested the initiative now taken by England . Had Lord Grenville hinted through the Danish Minister the ...
... Italy far outweighed the disasters in Germany and the Directory might very well imagine that the latter rather than the former had suggested the initiative now taken by England . Had Lord Grenville hinted through the Danish Minister the ...
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