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France (France) (search for this): chapter 10
hemselves towards the coasts of England and of France. If the enumeration cited by Depping is exaive or six years they vomit upon the coasts of France and Bretagne, bands which devastate every thininst England, and treated her still worse than France, although the conformity of language and of ma which the chief of the Normans established in France contested with him, to whom Edward had, it is Emperor Frederick Barbarossa with the kings of France and of England, for saving the Holy Land. T arose between them and brought Philip back to France. Twelve years afterwards, a new crusade was from the Genoese, Venitians and Catalans, for France, although washed by two seas, had yet no marinsuccessor of Saint Louis, pressed to return to France, rejected this proposition. This effort was than that of Venice. Edward III, debarked in France, and besieged Calais with eight hundred vesselnothing in the heart of a State as powerful as France. The astonishing conquests which gained them [6 more...]
London (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 10
ch ravage anew unhappy England. In 1012, Swenon made a descent upon the mouths of the Humber, overruns the country a second time like a torrent, and the English, tired of obeying princes who are not able to defend them, recognize him as king of the North. His son, Canute the Great, had to dispute the throne with a rival more worthy of it, (Edmund Ironsides.) Returning from Denmark with considerable forces, and seconded by the perfidious Edric, Canute ravaged the southern part and menaced London. A new division took place, but Edmund having been assassinated by Edric, Canute was finally recognized king of all England, departed afterwards to subject Norway, returned to attack Scotland, and died, dividing his kingdoms between his three children, according to the usage of the times. Five years after his death, the English restored the crown to their Anglo-Saxon princes; but Edward, on whom it devolved, was better calculated for a monk than for saving a country the prey of such inte
Havre (France) (search for this): chapter 10
lieu against Minorca, very glorious as an escalade, but less extraordinary as a descent. The Armerican War (1779) was the epoch of the greatest maritime efforts of France; Europe did not see, without astonishment, that power send at the same time Count D'Estaing to America with twenty-five ves sels of the line, whilst that M. Orvilliers, with sixty-five Franco-Spanish vessels of the line, was to protect a descent operated by three hundred transport vessels and forty thousand men united at Havre and St. Malo. This new Armada cruised for two months without undertaking anything; the winds drove it at last into its ports. More fortunate D'Estaing gained the ascendancy in the Antilles and debarked in the United States six thousand French under Rochambeau, who, followed later by another division, contributed in investing the small army of Cornwallis in New York (1781) and in fixing thus the independence of America. France would have triumphed perhaps forever over her implacable ri
Frederick, Md. (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
although reinforced by the small successive bodies of troops which the Italian marine brought from Europe, were ready to succumb anew under the blows of Saladin, when the Court of Rome succeeded in uniting the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa with the kings of France and of England, for saving the Holy Land. The Emperor, departed the first at the head of a hundred thousand Germans, clears a passage by Thrace, in spite of the formal resistance of the Greeks, then governed by Isaac Angelus. Frederick, victorious, marches to Gallipoli, crosses the Dardanelles, seizes Iconium, and dies for having imprudently bathed in a river that has been pretended to be the Cydnus. His son, the Duke of Suabia, harrassed by the Musselmans, prostrated by disease, brings scarcely six thousand men to Ptolemais. At the same time, Richard Coeur-de-Lion, and Philip-Augustus, better inspired, Richard departed from England with twenty thousand infantry and five thousand horsemen, and debarked in Normandy
Normandy (France) (search for this): chapter 10
es, calls the king of Denmark to his assistance. The latter makes a descent with considerable forces, defeats the French, makes their king prisoner, and secures Normandy for ever to the son of Rollo. In the same interval, from 838 to 950, the Danes showed the same bitterness against England, and treated her still worse than Frtitor was an ambitious and a great man. This year, 1066 was signalized by an extraordinary double expedition. Whilst that William the Conqueror made ready in Normandy a formidable armament against Harold, the brother of the latter, driven from Northumberland for his crimes, seeks support in Norway, departs with the king of thid Coeur-de-Lion, and Philip-Augustus, better inspired, Richard departed from England with twenty thousand infantry and five thousand horsemen, and debarked in Normandy, from whence he went by land to Guiune. and from there to Marseilles. We are ignorant what fleet carried him to Asia. Philip embarked at Genoa in Italian ship
Europe (search for this): chapter 10
er this triumph, Rome ruled in Africa as well as in Europe; but its empire was momentarily shaken in Asia by Mime at which the people of the East were overruning Europe, those of Scandinavia began to visit the coast of Ecan populations, visited in their turn the South of Europe. The Moors crossed in 712 the Straits of Gibraltarle events, when an enthusiastic priest animates all Europe with a fanatical infatuation, and precipitates it uies of troops which the Italian marine brought from Europe, were ready to succumb anew under the blows of Salaere too happy in buying permission to ro-embark for Europe. The Court oft Rome, which found it to its interTurks by sending twenty thousand men to Candia; but Europe sustained her feebly, and the republic had put fortng up with the progress which naval tactics made in Europe, had over the stationary musselmans a marked superie epoch of the greatest maritime efforts of France; Europe did not see, without astonishment, that power send
Corunna (Michigan, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
y-five thousand men at Copenhagen, besieged and bombarded it; he took possession of the Danish fleet, the object of his enterprise. In 1808 Wellington made a descent on Portugal with fifteen thousand men. It is known how, victorious at Vimiero, and supported by the insurrection of all Portugal, he forced Junot to evacuate that kingdom. The same army increased to twenty-five thousand men under the orders of Moore, wishing to penetrate into Spain for succoring Madrid, was driven back upon Corunna, and forced to re-embark with great loss. Wellington debarked anew in Portugal with some reinforcements, having united thirty thousand English and as many Portuguese, avenged that defeat by surprising Soult at Oporto, (May, 1809,) and by going afterwards as far as the gates of Madrid to fight Joseph at Talavera. The expedition to Antwerp, made the same year, was the most considerable which England had undertaken since Henry V. It numbered not less than seventy thousand men, forty thousa
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 10
housand men united at Havre and St. Malo. This new Armada cruised for two months without undertaking anything; the winds drove it at last into its ports. More fortunate D'Estaing gained the ascendancy in the Antilles and debarked in the United States six thousand French under Rochambeau, who, followed later by another division, contributed in investing the small army of Cornwallis in New York (1781) and in fixing thus the independence of America. France would have triumphed perhaps forevit was a successive and pacific descent rather than a military expedition. Finally, the English made, in the same year, 1815, an enterprise which may be ranked among the most extraordinary; we allude to that against the capital of the United States of America. There was seen, to the astonishment of the world, ahandful of seven or eight thousand English, descend in the midst of a State of ten millions of souls, to penetrate sufficiently far to seize the capitol, and to destroy thereat all the
Livonia (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
a treaty of evacuation. At the commencement of the eighteenth century, the Swedes and Russians made two very different expeditions. Charles XII, wishing to succor the Duke of Holstein, made a descent upon Denmark at the head of twenty thousand men, carried by two hundred transports and protected by a strong squadron; in truth he was seconded by the English and Dutch marine; but the expedition was not less remarkable for the details of debarkation. The same prince made a descent upon Livonia to succor Narva, but he landed in a Swedish port. Peter the Great having reason to complain of the Persians and wishing to profit by their discords, embarked in 1722 upon the Volga; he debouched into the Caspian Sea with two hundred and seventy ships, carrying twenty thousand foot, and goes to make a descent upon Agrakan at the mouths of the Koissou where he awaits his cavalry which, nine thousand dragoons and five thousand cossacks strong, comes to join him by land, crossing the Caucasu
Russian River (Alaska, United States) (search for this): chapter 10
self with them, returns to Bulgaria, breaks his alliance with the Greeks, then, reinforced by Hungarians, crossed the Balkan and goes to attack Adrianople. The throne of Constantine was then occupied by Zimisces, who was worthy of it; instead of ransoming himself like his predecessors, he raises a hundred thousand men, arms a respectable fleet, repulses Swatoslans from Adrianople, obliges him to retire upon Silistria, and causes the capitol of the Bulgarians to be re-taken by assault. The Russian prince marches to meet the enemy, gives him battle not far from Silistria, but is forced to re-enter into the place, where he sustained one of the most memorable seiges of which history makes mention. In a second battle, still more bloody, the Russians perform prodigies, and are forced anew to yield to numbers. Zimisces knowing how to honor courage, finally makes with them an advantageous treaty. About the same time the Danes are attracted to England, by the hope of pillage; we are ass
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