 | Edmund Burke - History - 1871 - 670 pages
...capitulation at Sedan was arms. All supplies of this nature had been sent on to Sedan, Metz, and Strasburg, as if, one would think, the authors of our disaster,...the provinces shake off their torpor, react against foolish panics, multiply our partisans, offer traps and ambushes to harass the enemy and inaugurate... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Books - 1871 - 666 pages
...capitulation at Sedan was arms. All supplies of this nature had been sent on to Sedan, Metz, and Strasburg, as if, one would think, the authors of our disaster,...the provinces shake off their torpor, react against foolish panics, multiply our partisans, offer traps and ambushes to harass the enemy and inaugurate... | |
 | Edmund Ollier - 1871 - 606 pages
...capitulation at Sedan was arms. All supplies of this nature had been sent on to Sedan, Mctz, and Strasburg, as if, one would think, the authors of our disaster,...the provinces shake off their torpor ; react against foolish panics ; multiply our partisans ; offer traps and ambushes to harass the enemy ; and inaugurate... | |
 | History - 1871 - 664 pages
...capitulation at Sedan was arms. All supplies of this nature had been sent on to Sedan, Metz, and Strasburg, as if, one would think, the authors of our disaster,...the provinces shake off their torpor, react against foolish panics, multiply our partisans, offer traps and ambushes to harass the enemy and inaugurate... | |
 | Henry Allnutt - Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871 - 1872 - 468 pages
...capitulation at Sedan was arms. All supplies of this nature had been sent on to Sedan, Metz, and Strasburg, as if, one would think, the authors of our disaster,...combination, had desired, at their fall, to deprive us of nil means of repairing our ruin. Steps have now been taken to obtain rifles and equipments from all... | |
 | Henri Martin - France - 1882 - 782 pages
...was wanting but arms, for all supplies of that sort had been sent to Sedan, Metz, and Sti'asburg, " as if, one would think, the authors of our disaster,...to deprive us of all means of repairing our ruin." Arms were, however, being provided ; and all that was needful was that the provinces should arouse... | |
 | Edmund Ollier - France - 1883 - 606 pages
...capitulation at. Sedan was arms. All supplies of this nature had been sent on to Sedan, Metz, and Strasburg, as if, one would think, the authors of our disaster,...combination, had desired, at their fall, to deprive us o( all means of repairing our ruin. Steps have now been taken to obtain rifles and equipments from... | |
 | Edmund Ollier - Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871 - 1894 - 616 pages
...capitulation at Sedan was arms. All supplies of this nature had been sent on to Sedan, Metz, and Strasburg, as if, one would think, the authors of our disaster, by a last crimiiiH I combination, had desired, at their fall, to deprive us ะพ I all means of repairing our ruin.... | |
 | James D. McCabe - Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871 - 1871 - 886 pages
...been sent on to .Sedan, Metz, and Strasbourg, as if, one would think, the authors of our disasters, by a last criminal combination, had desired, at their...the provinces shake off their torpor, react against foolish panics, multiply our partisans, set traps and ambushes to harass the enemy and inaugurate a... | |
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Men are not wanting. What has failed us has been a decisive resolution and the consecutive execution of our plans. That which failed us after the shameful capitulation at Sedan was arms. All supplies of this nature had been sent on to Sedan, Metz, and... 