Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Harcourt” in chapter 23, page 387 of George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition.:
...reat cause like the emancipation of the colonial world, checked the rashness of Spain and assumed the direction of its diplomacy. But Weymouth was haughty and unreasonable.
War is inevitable, said Harcourt to Choiseul.
If the English are bent on war, wrote Choiseul to Frances, all that I can say is unavailing.
But you will be witness, that I did not
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