 | Ernst D. Kargau - 1903 - 688 էջ
...Scotia and the richest portions of Asia. They shall not have the Mississippi, which they covet. * * * I have not a moment to lose in putting it out of their reach. * • * I think of ceding it to the United States. * * * They only ask of me one town in Louisiana, but I already... | |
 | Claude Hazeltine Wetmore - 1903 - 486 էջ
...to his Council of M:nisters: "They (the English) shall not have the Mississippi, which they covet. I have not a moment to lose in putting it out of their reach, and I think of ceding it to the United States. They only ask of me one town in Louisiana, but I already... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1904 - 878 էջ
...Scotia, and the richest portions of Asia. They shall not have the Mississippi which they covet. The conquest of Louisiana would be easy if they only took...their usual course, and if I had been in their place I would not have waited. I think of ceding It to the United States. . . . They only ask of me one town... | |
 | Olin Dunbar Wheeler - 1904 - 428 էջ
...Scotia, and the richest portions of Asia. They shall not have the Mississippi which they covet. The conquest of Louisiana would be easy, if they only...their usual course, and if I had been in their place, I would not have waited. I think of ceding it to the United States. . . . They only ask of me one town... | |
 | Mary Dillon - 1904 - 508 էջ
..."They have twenty ships of war in the Gulf of Mexico ; they sail over those seas as sovereigns! The conquest of Louisiana would be easy, if they only...whether they are not already there. It is their usual ,d <^ p 3 TK: *vx | PViiLl' '. • course, and if I had been in their place, I would not have waited.... | |
 | 1904 - 584 էջ
...those seas as sovereigns, whilst our affairs in St. Domingo have been growing worse every day . . . The conquest of Louisiana would be easy, if they only...it out of their reach. I know not whether they are already there. It is their usual course, and if I had been in their place, I would not have waited.... | |
 | Thomas Francis Moran - 1904 - 580 էջ
...those seas as sovereigns, whilst our affairs in St. Domingo have been growing worse every day . . . The conquest of Louisiana would be easy, if they only...it out of their reach. I know not whether they are already there. It is their usual course, and if I had been in their place, I would not have waited.... | |
 | Alexander Nicolas De Menil - 1904 - 436 էջ
...the English, said to his ministers of state: " They shall not have the Mississippi which they covet. I have not a moment to lose in putting it out of their reach, and I think of ceding it to the United States. They only ask of me one town in Louisiana, but I already... | |
 | Illinois State Historical Society - 1904 - 452 էջ
...war with England. "They have," he exclaimed to his minister, "20 ships of war in the Gulf of Mexico. I have not a moment to lose in putting it out of their reach. They only ask of me one town in .Louisiana 94 but I already consider the colony as lost." He afterwards... | |
 | Walter Robinson Smith - 1904 - 108 էջ
...seize Louisiana. "The conquest of Louisiana," said he, "will be easy if they will only descend upon it. I have not a moment to lose in putting it out of their power. . . . If I were in their place, I certainly would not have waited. ... I contemplate turning... | |
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The conquest of Louisiana would be easy, if they only took the trouble to make a descent there. I have not a moment to lose in putting it out of their reach. I know not whether they are not already there. 
