 Napoleon designed (but providentially in vain) for a similar descent upon England. It was not till the approach of the equinox that the wind veered from the north-east to the west, and gave the Normans an opportunity of quitting the weary shores of the...  Military Expeditions Beyond the Seas - Page 37by George Armand Furse - 1897Full view - About this book
 | sir Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1851 - 348 pages
...Normans an opportunity of quitting the weary shores of the Dive. They eagerly embarked, and set sail, but the wind soon freshened to a gale ; and drove...which the very elements thus seemed to fight against ; though, in reality, the north-east wind which had cooped them so long at the mouth of the Dive, and... | |
 | Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy - Battles - 1851 - 376 pages
...shores of the Dive. They eagerly embarked, and set sail, but the wind soon freshened to a gale, amd drove them along the French coast to St. Valery, where...which the very elements thus seemed to fight against ; though, in reality, the northeast wind, which had cooped them so long at the mouth of the Dive, and... | |
 | Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy - Battles - 1851 - 400 pages
...set sail, but the wind soon freshened to a gale, amd drove them along the French coast to St.Valery, where the greater part of them found shelter ; but...which the very elements thus seemed to fight against ; though, in reality, the northeast wind, which had cooped them so long at the mouth of the Dive, and... | |
 | sir Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1885 - 248 pages
...Normans an opportunity of quitting the weary shores of the Dive. They eagerly embarked, and set sail; but the wind soon freshened to a gale, and drove them...which the very elements thus seemed to fight against ; though in reality the north-east wind which had cooped them so long at the mouth of the Dive, and... | |
 | World history - 1887 - 832 pages
...Normans an opportunity of quitting the weary shores of the Dive. They eagerly embarked, and set sail; but the wind soon freshened to a gale, and drove them...coast to St. Valery, where the greater part of them fonnd shelter; but many of their vessels were wrecked, and the whole coast of Normandy was strewn with... | |
 | Archibald Wilberforce - Battles - 1899 - 536 pages
...Normans an opportunity of quitting the weary shores of the Dive. They eagerly embarked, and set sail, but the wind soon freshened to a gale, and drove them...which the very elements thus seemed to fight against ; though, in reality, the northeast wind, which had cooped them so long at the mouth of the Dive, and... | |
 | Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - Literature - 1899 - 488 pages
...Normans an opportunity of quitting the weary shores of the Dive. They eagerly embarked, and set sail, but the wind soon freshened to a gale, and drove them...which the very elements thus seemed to fight against ; though, in reality, the northeast wind, which had cooped them so long at the mouth of the Dive, and... | |
 | Charles Francis Horne, Rossiter Johnson - Great events by famous historians - 1905 - 428 pages
...Normans an opportunity of quitting the weary shores of the Dive. They eagerly embarked and set sail, but the wind soon freshened to a gale, and drove them...which the very elements thus seemed to fight against; though, in reality, the northeast wind, which had cooped them so long at the mouth of the Dive, and... | |
 | CHARLES H. SYLVESTER CHROUGH BOOKLAND - 1922 - 530 pages
...Normans an opportunity of quitting the weary shores of the Dive. They eagerly embarked, and set sail, but the wind soon freshened to a gale, and drove them...which the very elements thus seemed to fight against; though, in reality, the northeast wind, which had cooped them so long at the mouth of the Dive, and... | |
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - Children's literature - 1922 - 530 pages
...opportunity of quitting the weary shores of the Dive. They eagerly embarked, and set sail, but the Avind soon freshened to a gale, and drove them along the...which the very elements thus seemed to fight against; though, in reality, the northeast wind, which had cooped them so long at the mouth of the Dive, and... | |
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