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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: OPERATIONS OF THE FRENCH 21 CHAPTER III. Some Account of the Late Operations of the French at the Marquesas ? Prudent Conduct of the Admiral ? Sensation produced by the Arrival of the Strangers ? The First Horse seen by the Islanders ? Reflections?Miserable Subterfuge of the French ? Digression concerning Tahiti ? Seizure of the Island by the Admiral ? Spirited Conduct of an English Lady. It was in the summer of 1842 that we arrived at the islands; the French had then held possession of them for several weeks. During this time they had visited some of the principal places in the group, and had disembarked at various points about five hundred troops. These were employed in constructing works of defence, and otherwise providing against the attacks of the natives, who at any moment might be expected to break out in open hostility. The islanders looked upon the people who made this cavalier appropriation of their shores with mingled feelings of fear and detestation. They cordially hated them; but the impulses of their resentment were neutralized by their dread of the floating batteries, which lay with their fatal tubes ostentatiously pointed, not at fortifications and redoubts, but at a handful of bamboo sheds, sheltered in a grove of cocoa-nuts A valiant warrior, doubtless, but a prudent one too, was this same Rear Admiral Du Petit Thouars. Four heavy, double-banked frigates and three corvettes to frighten a parcel of naked heathen into subjection Sixty-eight pounders to demolish huts of cocoa-nutboughs, and Congreve rockets to set on fire a few canoe sheds At Nukuheva, there were about one hundred soldiers ashore. They were encamped in tents, constructed of the old sails and spare spars of the squadron, within the limits of a redoubt mounted with a few nine-pounders, ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217139922 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217139922 |
| Weight | 0.83 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.57 In |
| List Price | $19.94 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 252 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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