| William Tarn Pritchard - 1847 - 804 pages
...April, 1809, was never intended to be maintained in the regular mode of enforcing blockades, viz., by stationing a number of ships, and forming, as it...were, an arch of circumvallation round the mouth of a prohibited port, where, if the arch fails in any one part, the blockade itself fails -altogether... | |
| 1853 - 702 pages
...previously adopted by the French government against the commerce of this country. The blockade imposed by it is applicable to a very great extent of coast, and...number of ships, and forming, as it were, an arch of circuinvallation round the mouth * of the prohibited port. There, if the arch fails in any one [ *426... | |
| Robert Phillimore - 1857 - 668 pages
...dispute the validity of the Blockade on that account, (r) CCXCifl. A Blockade de facto should be effected by stationing a number of ships, and forming as it...circumvallation round the mouth of the prohibited port, where, if the arch fails in any one part, the Blockade itself fails altogether.(s) This is the general... | |
| Owen Davies Tudor - 1860 - 934 pages
...blockaded ports. " The usual and regular mode of enforcing blockades," says Sir William Scott, "ia by stationing a number of ships, and forming, as it...circumvallation round the mouth of the prohibited port. Then if the arch fails in any one part, the blockade fails altogether." IDods. 425. Another definition... | |
| 1862 - 600 pages
...Arthur (1 Dodson's Admiralty Reports, p. 425), ' The usual and regular mode of enforcing blockades is by stationing a number of ships, and forming as it...There, if the arch fails in any one part, the blockade fails altogether.' And when war broke out between Spain and her colonies in South America, the Government... | |
| 1862 - 628 pages
...Arthur (1 Dodnons Admiralty Reports, p. 425), ' The usual and regular mode of enforcing blockades is by stationing a number of ships, and forming as it were an arch of circurnvallation round the mouth of the prohibited port. There, if the arch fails in any one part,... | |
| Sir William Vernon Harcourt - 1863 - 242 pages
...been adopted by the French Government against the commerce of this country. The blockade imposed by it is applicable to a very great extent of coast, and...circumvallation round the mouth of the prohibited port. Then if the arch fails in any one part, the blockade itself fails altogether. But this species of blockade,... | |
| Sir William Vernon Harcourt - 1863 - 252 pages
...been adopted by the French Government against the commerce of this country. The blockade imposed by it is applicable to a very great extent of coast, and...number of ships and forming as it were an arch of circumvattation round the mouth of the prohibited port. Then if the arch fails in any one part, the... | |
| Sir William Vernon Harcourt - 1863 - 238 pages
...been adopted by the French Government against the commerce of this country. The blockade imposed by it is applicable to a very great extent of coast, and...according to the usual and regular mode of enforcing blackodes, by stationing a number of ships and forming as it were an arch of circumvattation round... | |
| Théodore Ortolan - 1864 - 594 pages
...forces navales suffisantes pour cerner le lieu à bloquer : « A blockade de facto should be effected by stationing a number of ships, and forming as it...circumvallation round the mouth of the prohibited port, where, if the arch fails in any one part, the blockade itself fails altogether. This is the general... | |
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