 No land force can act decisively, unless it is accompanied by a maritime superiority ; nor can more than negative advantages be expected without it. For proof of this, we have only to recur to the instances of the ease and facility with which the British...  The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 - Side 400af Alfred Thayer Mahan - 1890 - 557 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1835 - 594 sider
...advantages of it to America, and the honor and glory of it to the allied arms in these States, must depend absolutely upon the naval force, which is employed...next year. No land force can act decisively, unless it is accompanied by a maritime superiority ; nor can more than negative advantages be expected without... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1835 - 596 sider
...advantages of it to America, and the honor and glory of it to the allied arms in these States, must depend absolutely upon the naval force, which is employed...next year. No land force can act decisively, unless it is accompanied by a maritime superiority ; nor can more than negative advantages be expected without... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1835 - 604 sider
...advantages of it to America, and the honor and glory of it to the allied arms in these States, must depend absolutely upon the naval force, which is employed...next year. No land force can act decisively, unless it is accompanied by a maritime superiority ; nor can more than negative advantages be expected without... | |
 | George Washington - 1838 - 596 sider
...advantages of it to America, and the honor and glory of it to the allied arms in these States, must depend absolutely upon the naval force, which is employed...next year. No land force can act decisively, unless it is accompanied by a maritime superiority; nor can more than negative advantages be expected without... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1839 - 594 sider
...advantages of it to America, and the honor and glory of it to the allied arms in these States, must depend absolutely upon the naval force, which is employed...next year. No land force can act decisively, unless it is accompanied by a maritime superiority ; nor can more than negative advantages be expected without... | |
 | George Washington - 1847 - 594 sider
...advantages of it to America, and the honor and glory of it to the allied arms in these States, must depend absolutely upon the naval force, which is employed...next year. No land force can act decisively, unless it is accompanied by a maritime superiority ; nor can more than negative advantages be expected without... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - 1194 sider
...either extremity of the continent, and to their late heavy loss the moment they failed in their naval superiority. A doubt did not exist, nor does it at...the British force in the Carolinas and Georgia, if the Count de Grasse could have extended his cooperation two months longer." We may add here that Congress,... | |
 | George Washington - 1855 - 586 sider
...advantages of it to America, and the honor and glory of it to the allied arms in these States, must depend absolutely upon the naval force, which is employed...the time of its appearance next year. No land force ean act decisively, unless it is accompanied by a maritime superiority; nor can more than negative... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - 550 sider
...either extremity of the continent, and to their late heavy loss the moment they failed in their naval superiority. * * * * A doubt did not exist, nor does...the British force in the Carolinas and Georgia, if the Count de Grasse could have extended his co-operation two months longer." We may add here that Congress,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - 588 sider
...either extremity of the continent, and to their late heavy loss the moment they failed in their naval superiority. A doubt did not exist, nor does it at...the British force in the Carolinas and Georgia, if the Count de Grasse could have extended his cooperation two months longer." We may add here that Congress,... | |
| |
