 | 1815 - 628 pagina’s
...government in creating this fleet; and I shall not be diverted in my efforts to effectuate it by apy sinister attempt to render us subordinate to, or an appendage of, the army. We have one common object in the annoyance, defeat and destruction of the enemy; and I shall always... | |
 | Samuel R. Brown - 1815 - 382 pagina’s
...This is the great purpose of the government in creating this fleet ; and I shall jiot be diverted in my efforts to effectuate it by any sinister attempt to render us subordinate to,"or an appciwlage pf, the ai my. \Ve have one common object in the -annoyance, defeat and destruction... | |
 | Thomas H. Palmer - 1816 - 518 pagina’s
...This is the great purpose of the government in creating this fleet* and 1 shall not be diverted in my efforts to effectuate it by any sinister attempt...render us subordinate to, or an appendage of the army. We haye one common object in the annoyance, defeat, and destruction of the enemy,, and I shall always... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1882 - 528 pagina’s
...But that I consider the primary object. * * * We are intended to seek and fight the enemy's fleet, and I shall not be diverted from my efforts to effectuate...us subordinate to, or an appendage of, the army." That is, by any " sinister attempt " to make him co-operate intelligently in a really well-concerted... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1882 - 326 pagina’s
...But that I consider the primary object. . . . We are intended to seek and fight the enemy's fleet, and I shall not be diverted from my efforts to effectuate...us subordinate to, or an appendage of, the army." That is, by any "sinister attempt" to make him co-operate intelligently in a really well-concerted... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1882 - 606 pagina’s
...But that I consider the primary object. * * * We are intended to seek and fight the enemy's fleet, and I shall not be diverted from my efforts to effectuate...us subordinate to, or an appendage of, the army." That is, by any " sinister attempt " to make him co-operate intelligently in a really well-concerted... | |
 | John Randolph Spears - 1897 - 518 pagina’s
...fleet. He wrote, when asked to co-operate in the invasion of Canada, that he thought the request was a " sinister attempt to render us subordinate to, or an appendage of, the army." Then, in an attempt to pose as a gallant knight, he writes that, " to deprive the enemy of an apology... | |
 | J. Gordon Mowat, John Alexander Cooper, Newton MacTavish - 1903 - 628 pagina’s
...fleet. But that I consider the primary object. We are intended to seek and fight the enemy's fleet, and I shall not be diverted from my efforts to effectuate...us subordinate to, or an appendage of, the army." This, no doubt, was a fine example of American independence, but it was rather hard on the general... | |
 | James Hannay - 1905 - 398 pagina’s
...fleet. But that I consider the primary object. We are intended to seek and fight the enemy's fleet, and I shall not be diverted from my efforts to effectuate...us subordinate to, or an appendage of, the army." This, no doubt, was a fine example of American independence, but it was rather hard on the general... | |
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - 1905 - 564 pagina’s
...This is the great purpose of the Government in creating this fleet; and I shall not be diverted in my efforts to effectuate it by any sinister attempt...us subordinate to, or an appendage of, the army." It would be difficult to cite an apter instance of wresting sound priaciples to one's own destruction.... | |
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Navy has honored us with a higher destiny — we are intended to seek and to fight the enemy's fleet. This is the great purpose of the Government in creating this fleet; and I shall not be diverted in my efforts to effectuate it by any sinister attempt... 
