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" ... Exposed to the factions which divide my Country, and to the enmity of the greatest Powers of Europe, I have terminated my political career ; and I come, like Themistocles, to throw myself upon the hospitality of the British People. "
A Compend of History: From the Earliest Times - Page 103
by Samuel Whelpley - 1856
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The Scots Magazine and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany, Volume 77

English literature - 1815 - 1008 pages
...le foyer) of the British nation. I place myself under the protection of its laws, which I claim from your Royal Highness, as the most powerful, the most constant, and the most generous of m) enemies. " NAPOLEÓN." " RaAefart, 13/Л July." When Napoleon first boarded the Bellerophon, he...
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The Life and Campaigns of Napoleon Bonaparte: From His Birth Down to His ...

J. W. Robertson - 1815 - 850 pages
...the British nation. I place my self under the protection of its laws, which (protection) I claim from your Royal Highness, as the most powerful, the most constant, and the most generous of my enemies. 'Roche/art, \3thJuly, 1815.' 'NAPOLEON.' This letter was immediately sent on board the English vessel,...
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The Battle of Waterloo: Containing the Accounts Published by Authority ...

John Booth - Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815 - 1815 - 198 pages
...British people. I claim from your Royal Highness the protection of the laws, and throw myself upon the most powerful, the most constant, and the most generous of my enemies, i : . «' NAPOLEON." '•!• it -i - . .. • . . ..:..•••: ,1 ,.,-... ' .'• • '• . '...
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The History of the War: From the Commencement of the French ..., Volume 3

Hewson Clarke - Europe - 1816 - 690 pages
...hearths) of the British people. I place myself under the protection of their laws, which I claim from your royal highness, as the most powerful, the most constant, and the most generous of my enemies. " Rochefort, July 13." His allusion to the illustrious Athenian was at once a confession of his errors,...
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The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and advocate

1816 - 926 pages
...people. I pjk\c» myself nnder the protection of their laws, which I claim of vour Royal High, ness, as the most powerful, the most constant, and the most generous of my enemies." Bourdeanx, Thoulnuse, Strasbargh, with many other of the frontier fortresses, are still held by the...
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The Edinburgh annual register, Volume 8

728 pages
...lesfoyers) of the British nation. 1 place myself under the protection of its laws, which 1 claim from your Royal Highness, as the most powerful, the most constant, and the most generous of my enemies. " NAPOLEON. « Rochefort, 13th July." The Bellerophon was immediately ordered round to Ply mouth, with...
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The Edinburgh Annual Register, for 1808-26, Volume 8

Europe - 1817 - 736 pages
...ksfoyers) of the British nation, i place myself under the protection of its laws, which I claim from your Royal Highness, as the most powerful, the most constant, and the most generous of my enemies. " NAPOLEON. " Rochefort, 13th July." The Bellerophon was immediately ordered round to Plymouth, with...
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The Battle of Waterloo, Also of Ligny and Quatre-Bras, Described by the ...

Ligny, Battle of, 1815 - 1817 - 586 pages
...the British nation. I place myself under the protection of its laws, which (protection) I claim from your Royal Highness, as the most powerful, the most constant, and the most generous of my ene»ies> " Rochefort, 13th July, 1815." " NAPOLEON." When Napoleon first boarded the Bellerophon,...
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A Full and Circumstantial Account of the Memorable Battle of Waterloo: The ...

Christopher Kelly - Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815 - 1817 - 550 pages
...I place myself under the safeguard of their laws, and claim the protection of your royal highness, the most powerful, the most constant, and the most generous, of my enemies. " NAPOLEON." "The allusion in this letter to the illustrious Athenian," says an interesting writer,...
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The Edinburgh Annual Register

Walter Scott - Europe - 1817 - 738 pages
...nation. 1 place myself under the protection of its laws, which I claim from your Royal Highness, as toe most powerful, the most constant, and the most generous of my enemies. " NAPOLEON. " Rochefort, ISth July." The Bellerophon was immediately orderedround to Plymouth, with...
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