Memoirs of Adj. Gen. Ramel: Containing Certain Facts Relative to the Eighteenth Fructidor, His Exile to Cayenne, and Escape from Thence with Pichegru, Barthelemy, Willot, Aubry, Dossonville, Larue, and Le Tellier ...S. Kitton, 1805 - 243 עמודים |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 10
עמוד 34
... look as if they had a mind to defy me ; but we shall see " whether I shall be able to bring down their " insolence . " I was already laid upon the straw , with several of my companions , Barthe- lemy , standing up , raised his hands ...
... look as if they had a mind to defy me ; but we shall see " whether I shall be able to bring down their " insolence . " I was already laid upon the straw , with several of my companions , Barthe- lemy , standing up , raised his hands ...
עמוד 93
... look forward with eagerness to the day that was to lead us to the spot of our exile . When we came upon deck , we had a view of the continent , and a point of land more elevated than the rest of the coast , well known as the anchorage ...
... look forward with eagerness to the day that was to lead us to the spot of our exile . When we came upon deck , we had a view of the continent , and a point of land more elevated than the rest of the coast , well known as the anchorage ...
עמוד 126
... look very close , and when it was ready , we took care to serve it up ourselves : for this formidable cook , who had been fetched on purpose out of the house of correction at Cayenne , has twenty times threatened that he would poison us ...
... look very close , and when it was ready , we took care to serve it up ourselves : for this formidable cook , who had been fetched on purpose out of the house of correction at Cayenne , has twenty times threatened that he would poison us ...
עמוד 157
... look at us , when , perceiving that Bar- thelemy was in great pain , and that he was really too weak to bear that punishment , he told him he would order his irons to be knocked off , and would put him under confinement in his own hut ...
... look at us , when , perceiving that Bar- thelemy was in great pain , and that he was really too weak to bear that punishment , he told him he would order his irons to be knocked off , and would put him under confinement in his own hut ...
עמוד 165
... look towards the western coast , while our imagination has sickened , and our very eyes tired of that mono- tonous unvarying prospect , unable to discover either on the water or in the woods , one object that could convey to us the ...
... look towards the western coast , while our imagination has sickened , and our very eyes tired of that mono- tonous unvarying prospect , unable to discover either on the water or in the woods , one object that could convey to us the ...
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
MEMOIRS OF ADJ GEN RAMEL <span dir=ltr>Jean Piere 1768-1815 Ramel</span>,<span dir=ltr>C. L. Tr Pelichet</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2016 |
MEMOIRS OF ADJ GEN RAMEL <span dir=ltr>Jean Piere 1768-1815 Ramel</span>,<span dir=ltr>C. L. Tr Pelichet</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2016 |
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
18th Fructidor Aberdeenshire-Militia adieus Aimé already Alsace anchor arms arrived Aubry Augereau Barrick Barthelemy Berbice Billaud Varennes Blanchard boat Buckinghamshire Burnham-Market canoe Captain Laporte Captain Tilly carriages Cayenne coast command companions confined copies Council crew deck Desvieux Directory Dominique Dossonville dreadful Dutertre English escape Escort exiles Fakenham favour fort Orange France French friends gave Gentlemen give Governor Grenadiers guard Guillet heard Hertfordshire hundred inhabitants Jeannet John Kitton Lafond land Larue leagues leave Legislative Body lemy liberty Lieutenant London Louis XVI manner Marbois ment misfortunes Monte Krick morning Murinais negroes never night Norfolk Miss Norfolk Rev North Creak Norwich o'clock officer ourselves Paramaribo passed Pichegru prison Ramel received river sailors Sedgeford sent sentries September ship shore Sinamary situation Skyrack soldiers Sotin suffered Surinam Tellier thing Thursford tion took Tronçon du Coudray Vaillante vessel voyage William Willot wished wretched Yorkshire
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 71 - These men had formerly been selected from among the revolutionary bands of the committee of Nantes, so famous in the annals of terror by the...
עמוד 38 - We passed the remainder of the day and the following night in incessant and interesting conversation.
עמוד 61 - At last, contrary to our expectation, we all met again on. board the corvette la Vaillante, commanded by Captain Julien, who, as he received us on board...
עמוד 40 - Captain Gauthier, who commanded the cavalry of the Escort, repulsed the wretches who were the ringleaders of the Mob. We could plainly observe very different impressions upon the minds of this assembly : " There they are," exclaimed some of them, " these are the villains " who killed our King, they have loaded us *e with taxes, they eat our bread, and are the
עמוד 208 - ... myself in particular, are at your command." The speech was worthy of Amadis de Gaul himself. But wherever the honest Dutchman learned the tone, it had the better distinction of being followed up by active good-nature. The colonists went hand in hand with their honest governor in hospitality, the town was illuminated, the garrison and the colonial militia were under arms, and the fugitives landed under the universal discharge of musketry and cannon from the town and the ships. All was huzzaing,...
עמוד 4 - Directory, an order to repair to Paris, to take the command of the guard of the Legislative Body ; to which I had been appointed by the choice of the two Councils.
עמוד 209 - ... of the inhabitants of Surinam, the flourishing state of that colony, the smiling...
עמוד 66 - " you will not only destroy us in a very few " days, but you will create an infection in your " ship, and lose your crew." " Well," said the Captain as he turned away, " I shall see " what I can do, when we are out of sight of
עמוד 65 - To observe to you, that the bis" cuit which has been given us is a kind of food " to which none of us are accustomed...
עמוד 156 - Lafond, who messed together, were both taken ill almost at the same time : a few hours after, they began to vomit violently, and the most alarming symptoms appeared in both. They were in excruciating and incessant pain. We immediately wrote to Jeannet, to request a favour that was never denied even to the vilest criminals ; but he refused to have our friends removed to the hospital.