 | Joseph Haydn, Benjamin Vincent - Chronology, Historical - 1874 - 1004 pages
...ports raised ; officially announced in Loin Ion .... 22 Sept „ The French government issue a circuHr expressing readiness to consent to an equitable peace,...but refusing " to cede an inch of our territory or a atone of our fortresses "... 23 Sept. ,, Three conflicte before Paris: at Dr.incv, Pienvfitte, and... | |
 | Joseph Haydn - Chronology, Historical - 1883 - 838 pages
...blockade of German ports raised ; officially announced iu Ixmdon 22 Sept The French government issues a circular expressing readiness to consent to an equitable...23 Sept. Three conflicts before Paris : at Drancy, Picrred tic, and Villejuif ; the two last reported favorable to the French, 23 Sopt Toul surrenders... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1910 - 1028 pages
...declared that he is making war on f””0 the Empire and not on France, to stay his hand; we " shall not cede an inch of our territory or a stone of our fortresses." These proud words, so often ridiculed as cmpty bombast, were the prelude of a national effort which... | |
 | Hugh Chisholm - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1910 - 988 pages
...has declared that he is making war on the Empire and not on France, to stay his hand; we shall not cede an inch of our territory or a stone of our fortresses." These proud words, so often ridiculed * as empty bombast, were the prelude of a national effort which... | |
 | Charles Walker Robinson - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1914 - 290 pages
...has declared that he is making war on the Empire and not on France, to stay his hand ; we shall not cede an inch of our territory or a stone of our fortresses." These proud words, so often ridiculed as empty bombast, were the prelude of a national effort which... | |
 | Gary Jennings - Fiction - 1999 - 516 pages
...the public." She grinned and raised her fist in a mock-heroic gesture as she read, " 'We shall not cede an inch of our territory or a stone of our fortresses ..." He seems to go on saying that same thing over and over in different words." "Then either Favre... | |
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... bombarding range, and Paris formed the only exceptions to this general rule. The policy of the new French government was defined by Jules Favre on the 6th of September. " It is for the king of Prussia, who has declared that he is making war on the... 