 | Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - 1838 - 736 sider
...fleet was beaten, and I am inclined to believe he was right. •' I have told the Ministers repeatedly that a naval superiority on the lakes is a sine qua non of success in war on the frontier of Canada, even if our object should be solely defensive ; and I hope that when you arc there they will take care... | |
 | Arthur Wellesley (1st duke of Wellington.) - 1838 - 760 sider
...ileet was beaten, and I am inclined to believe he was right. •' I have told the Ministers repeatedly that a naval superiority on the lakes is a sine qua non of success in war on the frontier of Canada, even if our object should be solely defensive ; and I hope that when you are there they will take care... | |
 | Sir Archibald Alison - 1855 - 442 sider
...the immediate and I am inclined to think he was right. I have told the ministers repeatedly that и naval superiority on the lakes is a sine qua non of success in war on the frontier of Canada, even if our object should be wholly defensive. "•— WELLINGTON to Рш GEORGE MURBAY, 22d December,... | |
 | François-Xavier Garneau - 1860 - 454 sider
...after the fleet was beaten. I am inclined to think he was right : I have told ministers repeatedly, that a naval superiority on the lakes is a sine qua non of success in war on the frontiers of Canada, even if our object should be wholly defensive."* Several of the naval officers,... | |
 | Chicago (Ill.). Committee on Statistics - 1863 - 124 sider
...commercial, and political, why this work should be constructed. 1. THE MILITARY IMPORTANCE OF THE WOEK. We have arrived at that period in our history, in...decisive of the fate of the war on the northern border. In our past history, in the old Colonial and Revolutionary wars, and in the late war with Great Britain,... | |
 | New York (State). Commissioner on Enlargement of Canals for National Purposes - 1863 - 108 sider
...Lake Champlain, are well remembered. In 1814 the Duke of Wellington declared to the British Ministry " that a naval superiority on the lakes is a sine qua...of success in war on the frontier of Canada." The treaty of peace in 1815 was followed, in 1817, by the "diplomatic arrangement," bf which Great Britain... | |
 | United States. Post Office Dept - 1864 - 234 sider
...We have arrived at that period in our history in which the government should adopt a welleconsidered and systematic plan of defending the northern frontier....decisive of the fate of the war on the northern border. upon their borders, and are directly interested in their security. The great cities which have grown... | |
 | Richard Cobden - 1878 - 680 sider
...was at Paris, and he then wrote to Sir G. Murray thus : — ' I have told the Ministers repeatedly that a naval superiority on the lakes is a sine qua non of success in war on the frontier of Canada, even if our object should be solely defensive; and I hope that when you are there they will take care... | |
 | Parliament commons, proc, Vict - 1880 - 46 sider
...that the Duke of Wellington thus wrote to Sir George Murray : " I have told the Ministers repeatedly that a naval superiority on the lakes is a sine qua non of success in war on th frontiers of Canada, even if our object be solely defensive, and I hope that when you are there... | |
 | Henry Adams - 1890 - 454 sider
...the fleet was beaten ; and I am inclined to think he was right. I have told the ministers repeatedly that a naval superiority on the Lakes is a sine qua non of success in war on the frontier of Canada, even if our object should be wholly defensive." 1 Yet the Duke in conversation seemed to think that... | |
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I have told the Ministers repeatedly that a naval superiority on the lakes is a sine qua non of success in war on the frontier of Canada... 
