cogniets

Updated: May 29, 2025

There is no better writing, and no easier reading, than the records of these men of action. A Briton cannot help asking himself, as he realizes what men these were, what would have happened if 150,000 Cogniets and Bourgognes, with Marbots to lead them, and the great captain of all time in the prime of his vigour at their head, had made their landing in Kent? For months it was touch-and-go.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Through the Magic Door