Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 10, 2025
In this gigantic war game, where the Atlantic was the chess-board, and the prize a world-empire, the chances were at this time curiously even. Fortune had favoured Villeneuve but checked Gantheaume.
Last chapter on Egypt Admiral Gantheaume Way to please Bonaparte General Menou's flattery and his reward Davoust Bonaparte regrets giving the command to Menou, who is defeated by Abercromby Otto's negotiation in London Preliminaries of peace.
On that date he issued orders to Villeneuve and Gantheaume, which assigned to the latter most of the initiative, as also the chief command after their assumed junction.
Last chapter on Egypt Admiral Gantheaume Way to please Bonaparte General Menou's flattery and his reward Davoust Bonaparte regrets giving the command to Menou, who is defeated by Abercromby Otto's negotiation in London Preliminaries of peace.
After disembarking most of his troops and capturing a fleet of fourteen British merchantmen, he sailed for Ferrol, in pursuance of orders just received from Napoleon, which bade him rally fifteen allied ships at that port, and push on to Brest, where he must release Gantheaume.
Leaving them to revolutionize Ireland, Gantheaume was to make for the English Channel, touch at Cherbourg for further orders, and proceed to Boulogne to convoy the flotilla across: or, if the weather prevented this, as was probable in January, he was to pass on to the Texel, rally the seven Dutch battleships and the transports with their 25,000 troops, beat back down the English Channel and return to Ireland.
This confidence in mediocrity, dictated by an honourable feeling, did not obtain a suitable return. Gantheaume, by his indecision and creeping about in the Mediterranean, had already failed to execute a commission entrusted to him. The First Consul, upon finding he did not leave Brest after he had been ordered to the Mediterranean, repeatedly said to me, "What the devil is Gantheaume about?"
Last chapter on Egypt Admiral Gantheaume Way to please Bonaparte General Menou's flattery and his reward Davoust Bonaparte regrets giving the command to Menou, who is defeated by Abercromby Otto's negotiation in London Preliminaries of peace.
On the 7th of December he wrote to Gantheaume, maritime prefect at Toulon, urging him to press on the completion of his nine ships of the line and five frigates, and sketching plans of a naval combination that promised to insure the temporary command of the Channel. Of these only two need be cited here: 1.
It will readily be conceived how urgent were the entreaties of Parseval; but he would have sued in vain had not Gantheaume, Bionge, Berthollet, and I interceded for him. With some difficulty we overcame Bonaparte's resistance, and our colleague of the Egyptian Institute got on board after the wind had filled our sails.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking