 ... dear to them; have been dragged on board ships of war of a foreign nation and exposed, under the severities of their discipline, to be exiled to the most distant and deadly climes, to risk their lives in the battles of their oppressors, and to be...  Cobbett's Political Register - Page 213edited by - 1812Full view - About this book
 | Military art and science - 1905 - 818 pages
...the severities of their discipline to be exiled to the most distant and deadly climes ; to risk their lives in the battles of their oppressors, and to be...instruments of taking away those of their own brethren." King George III. yielded his "Principle" of right to search only at the cannon's mouth. The views of... | |
 | Frank Arthur Updyke - Ghent, Treaty of, 1815 - 1915 - 514 pages
...Madison presented impressment as one of the justifiable causes for war with Great Britain. He said: "Against this crying enormity, which Great Britain...vain exhausted remonstrances and expostulations." 93 In the report of the committee of the House recommending war, June 2, impressment was mentioned... | |
 | United States - 1915 - 512 pages
...Madison presented impressment as one of the justifiable causes for war with Great Britain. He said: " Against this crying enormity, which Great Britain...vain exhausted remonstrances and expostulations." 98 In the report of the committee of the House recommending war, June 2, impressment was mentioned... | |
 | Bertram Benedict - World War, 1914-1918 - 1919 - 490 pages
...the severities of their discipline, to be exiled to the most distant and deadly climes, to risk their lives in the battles of their oppressors, and to be...instruments of taking away those of their own brethren. .... British cruisers have been in the practice also of violating the rights and the peace of our coasts.... | |
 | James Fulton Zimmerman - Great Britain - 1925 - 292 pages
...the severities of their discipline, to be exiled to the most distant and deadly climes, to risk their lives in the battles of their oppressors, and to be...instruments of taking away those of their own brethren. 1Ibid., 1480.1481. Against this crying enormity^ which Great Britain would be so prompt to avenge if... | |
 | Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg - History - 1926 - 448 pages
...the severities of their discipline, to be exiled to the most distant and deadly climes, to risk their lives in the battles of their oppressors, and to be...melancholy instruments of taking away those of their brethren. . . . British cruisers have been in the practice also of violating the rights and the peace... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1813 - 824 pages
...severities of their discipline, to be exiled to the most distant ai.d deadly climes, to risk their lives in the battles of their oppressors, and to be...exhausted remonstrances and expostulations : and that no proof might be wanting of their conciliatory dispositions, and no pretext left for continuance of the... | |
 | Jim F. Watts, Fred L. Israel - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 416 pages
...the severities of their discipline, to be exiled to the most distant and deadly climes, to risk their lives in the battles of their oppressors, and to be...exhausted remonstrances and expostulations, and that no proof might be wanting of their conciliatory dispositions, and no pretext left for a continuance of... | |
 | Charles G. Muller - History - 2003 - 244 pages
...the severities of their discipline, to be exiled to the most distant and deadly climes, to risk their lives in the battles of their oppressors, and to be...instruments of taking away those of their own brethren. . . . "British cruisers have been in the practice also of violating the rights and the peace of our... | |
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