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 25
עמוד 62
... ship of war , the motion of the crew upon deck preparing to get under way , the reception we met with from the Captain , whose address to us was mild and affable not- withstanding the sternness of his looks , and pe- remptory manner of ...
... ship of war , the motion of the crew upon deck preparing to get under way , the reception we met with from the Captain , whose address to us was mild and affable not- withstanding the sternness of his looks , and pe- remptory manner of ...
עמוד 66
... 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 " the French coast . " At twelve o'clock they brought each of us again one biscuit , and set , in ...
... 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 " the French coast . " At twelve o'clock they brought each of us again one biscuit , and set , in ...
עמוד 70
... ship occasioned in almost every one of us , we had not yet been able to obtain leave to come upon deck and the hatches being shut up , on account of the stormy weather , we had a hard struggle between life and death . On the 25th they ...
... ship occasioned in almost every one of us , we had not yet been able to obtain leave to come upon deck and the hatches being shut up , on account of the stormy weather , we had a hard struggle between life and death . On the 25th they ...
עמוד 74
... ship's planks , Surely they are laughing at me , " said the Captain : " why , the floor is " already too soft for such rascals , I wish I " could have the birth paved . " Our companions having sent a message by that good lad Aristide ...
... ship's planks , Surely they are laughing at me , " said the Captain : " why , the floor is " already too soft for such rascals , I wish I " could have the birth paved . " Our companions having sent a message by that good lad Aristide ...
עמוד 76
... ship . Our gloomy prison became a little less darksome than usual , where we were struggling for life : our dim eyes , and death - like looks could hardly express our mutual adieus ; when , on a sudden , the Commandant of the Marines on ...
... ship . Our gloomy prison became a little less darksome than usual , where we were struggling for life : our dim eyes , and death - like looks could hardly express our mutual adieus ; when , on a sudden , the Commandant of the Marines on ...
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.