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Johnson was once challenged to make an epigram on the syllables di,do,dum. He immediately replied in these lines: "When Dido found Aeneas would not come, She wept in silence, and was Dido dumb. After touching at the island of Sicily, where Acestes, a prince of Trojan lineage, bore sway, who gave them a hospitable reception, the Trojans re-embarked, and held on their course for Italy.
She marched at the head of the army, singing, horrid chants of victory, and swinging the great war tomahawk, which did not often leave her hand. The whole force was re-embarked upon the Susquehanna, and it was still full of the impulse of savage triumph. Wild Indian songs floated along the stream or through the meadows, which were quiet now.
Thus foiled in his plans by circumstances of wind and tide, he still considered it a point of honour that some attempt should be made. This was on the 22nd of July: he re-embarked his men that night, got the ships on the 24th to anchor about two miles north of the town, and made show as if he intended to attack the heights.
For the same reason, its first care should be to make sure of the possession of one fortified harbor/ or at least of a tongue of land which is convenient to a good anchorage and may be easily strengthened by fortifications, in order that in case of reverse the troops may be re-embarked without hurry and loss. A few Remarks on Logistics in General. Is logistics simply a science of detail?
Every one being agreed on this point, the whole band re-embarked, and proceeded on their way up the river. They advanced rapidly, for although the stream was against them it was so sluggish as to be scarcely appreciable, and by keeping near to the banks they were not delayed by it at all.
The French governor was summoned to surrender, but refused, so the works were attacked and carried after a spirited resistance. But the attempt to capture St. Pierre in the island of Martinique was not equally successfully. The French defended the place so desperately that the troops were re-embarked with considerable loss.
Three times was this remark repeated but the fourth time I had to express my firm opinion that in no case was the use of the word "remnant," as applied to a fighting unit "in being," an expression which authority should employ in the presence of the men. Re-embarked in H.M.S. Basilisk and got back to Imbros fairly late.
"I would not have said so at the time, Mr Easy, but now the wound is healed, I tell you that it is the best thing that could have happened poor old gentleman! he was mad, indeed." Our hero remained a fortnight at Malta, and then Signora Easy was re-embarked, and once more the Rebiera made sail.
Perhaps on arriving at Dover he had already re-embarked for Japan or Australia. "Ah! the unexpected happens, it seems," thought Marianne, laughing maliciously, as she considered the ludicrousness of her failure. "Madame, we are going ?" indifferently asked the coachman, who was tired of waiting. "Where you please to the Bois!" "Very good, madame."
If we had gone ashore in this place, all my precious collections would have been inevitably lost; but we ourselves could have scrambled easily to land, and re-embarked with Senor Honorio, who had remained behind in the Pini, and would pass in the course of two or three days. When night came I lay down exhausted with watching and fatigue, and fell asleep, as my men had done sometime before.
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