 | Edgar Stanton Maclay - 1901 - 762 str.
...Guerriere. At the court-martial convened to try him for the loss of the Guerriere Captain Dacres said : " It is my earnest wish, and would be the happiest moment...be once more opposed to the Constitution with them [the Guerriere's crew] under my command, in a frigate of similar force to the Guerriere." Profiting... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1904 - 808 str.
...the odds in his favor, nothing could be more misplaced than Captain Dacre's vaunt before the court: "I am so well aware that the success of my opponent was owing to fortune, that it is my earnest wish to be once more opposed to the Constitution, with the same officers and crew under my command, in a... | |
 | Henry Adams - 1921 - 450 str.
...success of my opponent was owing to fortune, that it is my earnest wish, and would be the happiest period of my life, to be once more opposed to the ' Constitution,' with them [the old crew] under my command, in a frigate of similar force with the ' Guerriere.' " After all had... | |
 | Henry Adams - 1986 - 1458 str.
...different story:2 "I am so well 'Cobbett's Debates, xxiv. 463; Feb. 18, 1813. 2 James, App. No. 77. aware that the success of my opponent was owing to...that it is my earnest wish, and would be the happiest period of my life, to be once more opposed to the 'Constitution,' with them [the old crew] under my... | |
 | Nicholas Tracy - 1998 - 390 str.
...confidence have I in the exertions of the officers and men who belonged to the Guerriere, and I am so aware that the success of my opponent was owing to...that it is my earnest wish, and would be the happiest period of my life, to be once more opposed to the Constitution, with them under my command, in a frigate... | |
 | William James - 2002 - 588 str.
...issue of this affair, such confidence have I in the exertions of the officers and men who belonged to the Guerriere; and I am so well aware that the...that it is my earnest wish, and would be the happiest period of my life, to be once more opposed to the Constitution, with them under my command, in a frigate... | |
 | Walter R. Borneman - 2004 - 384 str.
...moment before Lieutenant Read on Guerriere's quarterdeck, Dacres could not resist a final broadside. "I am so well aware that the success of my opponent was owing to fortune," he declared, "that it is my earnest wish to be once more opposed to the Constitution, with the same... | |
 | David G. Fitz-Enz - 2004 - 326 str.
...issue of this affair, such confidence have I in the exertions of the officers and men who belonged to the Guerriere, and I am so well aware that the...that it is my earnest wish, and would be the happiest period of my life, to be once more opposed to the Constitution, with them under my command, in a frigate... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Gilbert Runkle - 2008 - 612 str.
...Englishman who best knew the relative force of the ships, told his court of inquiry a different story:-"! am so well aware that the success of my opponent was...that it is my earnest wish, and would be the happiest period of my life, to be once more opposed to the Constitution, with them [the old crew] under my command,... | |
 | 1813 - 512 str.
...tlie ¡iritishcomwe should not have noticed his miand men who belonged to the Guerrière, and I am so aware that the success of my opponent was owing to...that it is my earnest wish, and would be the happiest period of my life, to be once more opposed to the Constitution, with them underm v command, in a frigate... | |
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I am so well aware that the success of my opponent was owing to fortune that it is my earnest wish, and would be the happiest period of my life, to be once more opposed to the Constitution... 
