 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - 1902 - 1118 sider
...resolve how to attack it. According to a -popular epigram, The Earl of Chatham, with his sword drawn Stood waiting for Sir Richard Strachan ; Sir Richard,...be at 'em, Stood waiting for the Earl of Chatham. Whilst admiral and general were hesitating, the troops were left in the low isle of Walcheren, where... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - 1903 - 538 sider
...blame on the general and admiral. Some clever fellow wrote that My Lord Chatham, with his sword drawn, Stood waiting for Sir Richard Strachan ; Sir Richard,...be at 'em, Stood waiting for the Earl of Chatham. 6. Wellington's Difficulties in Spain.—Wellington had difficulties enough in Spain. He had but few... | |
 | Douglas Owen - 1904 - 196 sider
...the depth of the river approach to it. How runs the old saw : ' Lord Chatham with his sword drawn Was waiting for Sir Richard Strachan ; Sir Richard, longing...to be at 'em, Stood waiting for the Earl of Chatham !'? The report of His Majesty's Commissioners affords in this connection interesting reading. England's... | |
 | Douglas Owen - 1904 - 240 sider
...the depth of the river approach to it. How runs the old saw : 1 Lord Chatham with his sword drawn Was waiting for Sir Richard Strachan ; Sir Richard, longing...to be at 'em, Stood waiting for the Earl of Chatham !' ? The report of His Majesty's Commissioners affords in this connection interesting reading. England's... | |
 | Edward Frederick Leveson-Gower - 1905 - 376 sider
...disastrous Walcheren expedition, has immortalised Sir Richard : The Earl of Chatham, with his sword drawn, Stood waiting for Sir Richard Strachan ; Sir Richard,...be at 'em, Stood waiting for the Earl of Chatham. Mr. George Rendel was an able and charming man, whose friendship I greatly valued. From Naples I went... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1905 - 680 sider
...situation has a humorous side which has a historical precedent — ' The Earl of Chatham, with sword drawn, Stood waiting for Sir Richard Strachan ; Sir Richard,...be at 'em, Stood waiting for the Earl of Chatham.' The Blue-book (Cd. 2326, 1904) which has been put forward, as we have said, to prove that the Colonies... | |
 | John William Ward Earl of Dudley - 1905 - 466 sider
...Richard Strachan, which gave rise to the well-known epigram — Great Chatham, with his sabre drawn, Stood waiting for Sir Richard Strachan ; Sir Richard,...be at 'em, Stood waiting for the Earl of Chatham. Differences of opinion between Canning and Castlereagh had reached such a pitch in April 1809, that... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1905 - 846 sider
...situation bas a humorous side which has a historical precedent — ' The Earl of Chatham, with sword drawn, Stood waiting for Sir Richard Strachan ; Sir Richard,...be at 'em, Stood waiting for the Earl of Chatham.' The Blue-book (Cd. 2320, 1904) which has been put forward, as we have said, to prove that the Colonies... | |
 | Edward Frederick Leveson-Gower - 1905 - 362 sider
...disastrous Walcheren expedition, has immortalised Sir Richard : The Earl of Chatham, with his sword drawn, Stood waiting for Sir Richard Strachan ; Sir Richard, longing to be at 'era, Stood waiting for the Earl of Chatham. Mr. George Rendel was an able and charming man, whose... | |
 | Edmond Stephen Meany - 1907 - 454 sider
...under Admiral Strachan. This gave rise to the following: — " Great Chatham, with his sabre drawn Stood waiting for Sir Richard Strachan ; Sir Richard,...be at 'em Stood waiting for the Earl of Chatham." Friends of the admiral retorted against Chatham's charges and called him "the late" Earl of Chatham.... | |
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The Earl of Chatham, with his sword drawn Stood waiting for Sir Richard Strachan ; Sir Richard, longing to be at 'em, Stood waiting for the Earl of Chatham. 
