qu'avait-on

Updated: May 19, 2025

When the prisoners taken with Tate were being conducted to their place of confinement, the difficulty was to protect them, 'car la population furieuse contre les Français voulait les lyncher. Captain Desbrière dwells at some length on the mutinies in the British fleet in 1797, and asks regretfully, 'Qu'avait-on fait pour profiter de cette chance unique? He remarks on the undoubted and really lamentable fact that English historians have usually paid insufficient attention to these occurrences.

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