 | Richard Warner Van Alstyne - 1974 - 244 trang
...takes possession of N. Orleans fixes her sentence which is to restrain her forever within her low water mark. It seals the union of two nations who in conjunction...must marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation '. For good measure the President, in another context, tossed out the idea of ' the exclusive appropriation... | |
 | Brewster C. Denny - 1985 - 218 trang
...wrote: "The day that France takes possession of New Orleans, fixes the sentence which is to restrain her forever within her low-water mark. It seals the...moment, we must marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation."2 Ties with England — common interests and a shared heritage of free institutions — would... | |
 | Robert W. Tucker, David C. Hendrickson - 1992 - 377 trang
...other meaning that could be given his words: "The day that France takes possession of New Orleans . . . seals the union of two nations who in conjunction...marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation." 49 While the French never succeeded in taking possession of New Orleans, save in a formal sense and... | |
 | Kenneth W. Thompson - 1992 - 372 trang
...Washington, DC, 1931-44), X, 363. habitual enemy. The day that France takes possession of New Orleans seals the union of two nations, who, in conjunction, can maintain exclusive possession of the seas. From that moment we must marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation." Our interests must... | |
 | Eugene V. Rostow - 1995 - 420 trang
...possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. The day that France takes possession of New Orleans seals the union of two nations, who, in conjunction, can maintain exclusive possession of the sea. From that moment we must marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation." Our interests must... | |
 | Stanley M. Elkins, Eric McKitrick - 1995 - 952 trang
...of New Orleans, fixes the sentence which is to restrain her forever within her low-water mark. . . . From that moment, we must marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation."'7 The French had neither the ships nor the troops which would have had to be committed to... | |
 | Stephen Skowronek - 1997 - 592 trang
...possession of New Orleans fixes the sentence which is to restrain her forever within her low water mark. It seals the union of two nations who in conjunction...marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation." "Jefferson to Livingston," April 18, 1802, Works, Vol. 11, p. 364. 54. Memoirs of John Quincy Adams,... | |
 | Bernard De Voto, Bernard Augustine De Voto - 1998 - 694 trang
...possession of New Orleans fixes the sentence which is to restrain her forever within her low water mark. It seals the Union of two nations who in conjunction...marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation." s This realism of the sometime Francophile preceded by thirteen months the British minister's report... | |
 | Jim F. Watts, Fred L. Israel - 2000 - 416 trang
...hypothesis. The day that France takes possession of New Orleans, fixes the sentence which is to restrain her forever within her low-water mark. It seals the...must marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation. We must turn all our attention to a maritime force, for which our resources place us on very high ground;... | |
 | Peter S. Onuf - 2000 - 276 trang
...takes possession of N. Orleans fixes the sentence which is to restrain her forever within her low water mark. It seals the union of two nations who in conjunction...must marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation" ( TJW, 1104-7, at 1105). It is curious that TJ, the notorious Anglophobe, should here not just imagine... | |
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The day that France takes possession of New Orleans, fixes the sentence which is to restrain her forever within her low-water mark. It seals the union of two nations, who, in conjunction, can maintain exclusive possession of the ocean. From that moment,... 
