 | Jim F. Watts, Fred L. Israel - 2000 - 416 str.
...low-water mark. It seals the union of two nations, who, in conjunction, can maintain exclusive possession of the ocean. From that moment, we must marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation. We must turn all our attention to a maritime force, for which our resources place us on very high ground;... | |
 | Andrew Linklater - 2000 - 384 str.
...seals the union of two nations, who, in conjunction, can maintain exclusive possession of the sea. From that moment we must marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation." Our interests must march forward, altruists though we are; other nations must see to it that they stand... | |
 | Walter G. Cowan - 2001 - 300 str.
...of New Orleans fixes the sentence which is to restrain her forever within her lowwater mark. . . . From that moment, we must marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation." Naturally, Livingston sought all the information he could obtain from the French government, but that... | |
 | Edward J. Dodson - 2002 - 600 str.
...low-water mark. It seals the union of two nations, who, in conjunction, can maintain exclusive possession of the ocean. From that moment, we must marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation. Fortunately for the apparent interests of Americans, Napoleon Bonaparte had already greatly overstepped... | |
 | Norman K. Risjord - 2002 - 460 str.
...water mark. It seals the union of the two nations who in conjunction can maintain exclusive possession of the ocean. From that moment we must marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation." In his single-minded pursuit of American national intereEjeffenon was quite willing to reach a temporary... | |
 | Martin Wight - 2002 - 324 str.
...New Orleans 'seals the union of two nations, who, in conjunction, can maintain exclusive possession of the ocean. From that moment, we must marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation'.6 The danger was averted when Napoleon instead sold Louisiana to the United States (1803).... | |
 | James J. Horn, Jan Ellen Lewis, Peter S. Onuf - 2002 - 460 str.
...April 1802 Jefferson assured his ambassador in Paris that if Napoleon took possession of New Orleans, "From that moment we must marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation." By no means did Jefferson relish that prospect, devoutly preferring a purchase and continued neutrality,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes - 2002 - 376 str.
...of New Orleans, fixes the sentence which is to restrain her forever within her low-water mark. . . . From that moment, we must marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation. To Robert R. Livingston, US minister to France, Washington, Apr. 18, 1802 My strongest predilections... | |
 | Walter Russell Mead - 2002 - 402 str.
...warer mark. It seals the union of two nations who in conjunction can maintain exclusive possession of the ocean. From that moment we must marry ourselves to the Btitish fleet and nation. " Thomas Jefferson, "The Affait of Louisiana," April 18, 1802, letrer to... | |
 | Alexander DeConde - 2000 - 404 str.
...that when France took possession of New Orleans she would become "our natural and habitual enemy," and "from that moment we must marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation."38 The president did not, however, abandon negotiation. In January 1803 he sent his friend... | |
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The day that France takes possession of New Orleans fixes the sentence which is to restrain her forever within her low-water mark. It seals the union of two nations, who, in conjunction, can maintain exclusive possession of the ocean. From that moment... 
