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25 miles ammunition arms army of invasion arsenals attack Avisos Avon baggage bastioned fronts Battalions Boulogne Brest Bristol calculation carronades Cavalry Channel chasse-marées Chatham Cherbourg coast batteries constructed convey Corvettes coup de main debarkation disembarkation distance ditto Dockyard Douai Dover Draught Horses effective strength electric telegraph embarkation enceinte enceinte continue enemy enemy's Engineers England Entrenched Camp estimate Field Artillery flanks fleet flotilla Folkestone fortifications fortified port fortresses forts France French frigates garrisons Gosport guard guns Hamoaze Hâvre horse-power howitzer inch Mortars Infantry intervals invader invasion of England land London lunettes materiel merchant steamers metropolis miles an hour military militia mouth National Defence naval navy North Foreland objective point opinion Paris Park Waggons passage passenger carriages Plymouth Portsmouth railroads railway Regiments Shooter's Hill siege squadron steam corvette steam frigates steam ships Thames tons Total Toulon town transport troops Waggon Train weight Woolwich yards
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Sivu 4 - Portsmouth ; and I say that, excepting immediately under the fire of Dover Castle, there is not a spot on the coast on which infantry might not be thrown on shore, at any time of tide, with any wind and in any weather, and from which such body of infantry, so thrown on shore, would not find within the distance of five miles a road into the interior of the country through the cliffs practicable for the march of a body of troops.
Sivu 4 - I know no mode of resistance, much less of protection, from this danger, excepting by an army in the field capable of meeting and contending with its formidable enemy, aided by all the means of fortification which experience in war can suggest.
Sivu xiii - ... usual object of legitimate war — a fair and lasting peace. — and declares that he makes it a war of extermination, he doubtless cannot complain if the usual laws of war are departed from against him, when he himself sets the example. But, even then, when we consider what unspeakable atrocities a partisan warfare gives birth to, and .that no nation attacked by an overwhelming force of disciplined armies was ever saved by such means, It may be doubted, even then, whether it be justifiable,...
Sivu xii - ... maintained, it is worse than idle to say that it may not retaliate this system, and put out of the pale of civilized hostility those who have begun so to deal with them. The truth is, that if war, carried on by regular armies under the strictest discipline, is yet a great evil, an irregular partisan warfare is an evil ten times more intolerable ; it is in fact no other than to give a...
Sivu 3 - Cork. The remainder must be supplied from the half of the whole force at home stationed in Great Britain. The whole force employed at home in Great Britain and Ireland would not afford a sufficient number of men for the mere defence and occupation, on the breaking out of war, of the works constructed for the defence of the dock-yards and naval arsenals, without leaving a single man disposable.
Sivu 4 - Head, Brighton, Arundel, to Selsey Bill, near Portsmouth, and I say that excepting immediately under the fire of Dover Castle, there is not a spot on the coast on which infantry might not be thrown on shore at any time of tide, with any wind and in any weather...
Sivu xii - ... no other than to give a license to a whole population to commit all sorts of treachery, rapine, and cruelty without any restraint ; letting loose a multitude of armed men, with none of the obedience and none of the honourable feelings of...
Sivu 4 - That in that space of coast (that is, between the North Foreland and Selsey Bill) there are not less than seven small harbours or mouths of rivers, each without defence, of which an enemy, having landed his infantry on the coast, might Uske possession, and therein land his cavalry and artillery of all calibres, and establish himself and his communications with France.
Sivu xiii - ... keep up, night and day, a war of extermination ? If, indeed, the avowed object of the invader be the destruction, not of any particular government, but of the national existence altogether ; if he thus disclaims the usual object of legitimate war — a fair and lasting peace — and declares that he makes it a war of extermination, he doubtless cannot complain if the usual laws of war are departed from against him, when he himself sets the example. But, even then, when we consider what unspeakable...
Sivu xii - ... to a whole population to commit all sorts of treachery, rapine, and cruelty, without any restraint ; letting loose a multitude of armed men, with none of the obedience and none of the honourable feelings of a soldier ; cowardly because they are undisciplined, and cruel because they are cowardly. It seems, then, the bounden duty of every government, not only not to encourage such irregular warfare on the part of its population, but carefully to repress it, and to oppose its enemy only with its...