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Before embarking, the United States line-of-battle-ship Columbus had reached the coast from China with Commodore Biddle, whose rank gave him the supreme command of the navy on the coast. He was busy in calling in "lassooing " from the land-service the various naval officers who under Stockton had been doing all sorts of military and civil service on shore.
Before embarking, the United States line-of-battle-ship Columbus had reached the coast from China with Commodore Biddle, whose rank gave him the supreme command of the navy on the coast. He was busy in calling in "lassooing " from the land-service the various naval officers who under Stockton had been doing all sorts of military and civil service on shore.
That your lordship may see I was in earnest when I premised to hasten to an end, I will not give the reasons why I writ not always in the proper terms of navigation, land-service, or in the cant of any profession.
It was natural that individual communities, hitherto specially privileged, should hesitate as to the acceptance of the franchise; that Neapolis, for example, should scruple to give up its former treaty with Rome which guaranteed to its citizens exemption from land-service and their Greek constitution, and perhaps domanial advantages besides for the restricted rights of new burgesses.
But the circumstances of the time presented to the men, who in other days would have found no outlet for their energies but in land-service abroad, the opportunity of giving those energies a wider scope in the more exacting but also more inspiring service by sea: where richer prizes were to be won, with greater risk no doubt, but risk which called every faculty of manhood into vigorous play.
The estimates of the land-service were not discussed without tedious debates and warm disputes. The ministry demanded fifty-four thousand men, twenty thousand of whom should be kept at home for the defence of the nation, while the rest should serve abroad in the allied army.
The howitzers were always landed as quickly as the men, and were brought into action before the light pieces of the land-service could be got ashore. I regret very much that the reduced complements of the vessels prevent me from maintaining the force in constant organization.
Whereas Philopoemen, thinking his skill in land-service would equally avail at sea, learned how great a part of valor experience is, and how much it imports in the management of things to be accustomed to them.
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