Napoleon and His Fellow Travellers: Being a Reprint of Certain Narratives of the Voyages of the Dethroned Emperor on the Bellerophon and the Northumberland to Exile in St. Helena: the Romantic Stories Told by George Home, Captain Ross, Lord Lyttelton, and William WardenClement King Shorter Cassel, 1908 - 341 من الصفحات |
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
accompanied Admiral afterwards answer appeared army arrived asked attention battle battle of Waterloo became Bellerophon Bingham board the Northumberland boats Bonaparte Bonaparte's Bourbon British Brixham cabin Captain Maitland character command Consul conversation Count Bertrand countenance coup d'état death deck died dinner Duke Earl Egypt Elba Emperor England English escape exile favour feeling France French Gourgaud Government Governor heard Helena Holland Rose honour hour island ladies land letter lieutenant London Longwood look Lord Keith Lord Lowther Lord Rosebery Louis XVIII Lyttelton Madame Bertrand Marshal Minister Montholon morning Napoleon Napoleon Bonaparte narrative never Northumberland O'Meara observed officers opinion orders Paris passed Peninsular War person Plymouth Prince prisoner quarter-deck questions received recollection replied retired seemed sent ship shore Sir George Bingham Sir George Cockburn Sir Hudson Lowe smiled soldiers surgeon Talleyrand thought tion told took voyage Warden Waterloo
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 105 - Recollections of the Emperor Napoleon during the First Three Years of his Captivity on the Island of St. Helena.
الصفحة 174 - I am about to offer of our departure from France, and the circumstances connected with it. The future historian will certainly attempt to describe it; and you will then be able to judge of the authenticity of his materials and the correctness of his narration. " From the time the emperor quitted the capital, it was his fixed determination to proceed to America, and establish himself on the banks of one of...
الصفحة 236 - I accordingly gave orders for this man to be arrested; when a summary mock trial was instituted, by which he was found guilty, sentenced to die, and informed he had but six hours to live. This stratagem had the desired effect ; he was terrified into confession. It was now known that Pichegru had a brother, a monastic priest, then residing in Paris. I ordered a party of...
الصفحة 172 - For what claim can that man have to courage who trembles at the frowns of fortune. — True heroism consists in becoming superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge him to the combat.
الصفحة 230 - Thus a clue was found that led to the discovery of a plot, which, had it succeeded, would have thrown the French nation, a second time, into a state of revolution. — Captain Wright was accordingly conveyed to Paris, and confined in the Temple ; there to remain till it was found convenient to bring the formidable accessaries of this treasonable design to trial. The law of France would have subjected Wright to the punishment of death : but he was of minor consideration. My grand object was to secure...
الصفحة 11 - I place myself under the protection of its laws, which I claim from your Royal Highness as the most powerful, the most constant, and the most generous of my enemies.
الصفحة 243 - Pacha was enabled to bring forward. The sick and wounded were numerous; and their removal was my first consideration. Carriages, the most convenient that could be formed, were appropriated to the purpose. Some of them were sent by water to Damietta, and the rest were accommodated, in the best possible manner, to accompany their comrades in their march through the desert.
الصفحة 26 - Yes, sire," and withdrew. He then took out a pocket-glass and applied it to his eye, looking eagerly at the land. In this position, he remained from five in the morning to nearly mid-day, without paying any attention to what was passing around him, or speaking to one of his suite, who had been standing behind him for several hours.
الصفحة 136 - Buonaparte mounted the gangway, and, on feeling himself firm on the quarter-deck, he raised his hat, when the guard presented arms and the drum rolled. The officers of the Northumberland, who were uncovered, stood considerably in advance. Those he approached, and saluted with an air of the most affable politeness. He then addressed himself to sir George Cockburn, and hastily asked for the...
الصفحة 237 - To France your vessels conveyed underlings of the plot, and Moreau became a convert to the cause. The moment was big with evil: I felt myself on a tottering eminence, and, I resolved to hurl the thunder back upon the Bourbons even in the metropolis of the British empire.