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The Daily Dispatch: April 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], Fatal accident. (search)
the general rule that guns ashore are superior to guns afloat, and that naval expeditions are utterly impotent against a well fortified coast. In 1795 a British expedition was fitted out, at an expense of eight millions of dollars, against Quiberon, a port of the French coast. The bay of Quiberon is pronounced by Brenton, in his British Naval History, "the finest on the coast of France, or perhaps in the world, for landing an army." Moreover, the inhabitants of the country were in open inQuiberon is pronounced by Brenton, in his British Naval History, "the finest on the coast of France, or perhaps in the world, for landing an army." Moreover, the inhabitants of the country were in open insurrection, and eager to co-operate with the invaders. Ten thousand soldiers were landed and arms furnished to as many more royalist troops, but the combined forces failed in their attack upon the fortifications, and General Hocks, from his entrenchments, with seven thousand men, held in check a body of eighteen thousand, penned up, without defences, in the narrow peninsula. In 1799, the English and Russians made a descent upon Holland with fourteen ships-of-the-line and ten frigates, carr