 | Marie-Jeanne Rossignol - 2004 - 304 str.
...low watermark. 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."2" Dupont explained to Jefferson that his warlike tone could only antagonize Bonaparte. The... | |
 | Cynthia Barrow-Giles, Don D. Marshall - 2003 - 580 str.
...possession 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.64 Now that France had once again become a threat, Jefferson resolved that he would endeavor... | |
 | Jeremy A. Rabkin - 2004 - 284 str.
...irritable a position. . . . The day that France takes possession of New Orleans fixes the sentence. . . . From that moment we must marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation. We must turn all our attention to maritime force, for which our resources place us on very high grounds:... | |
 | Michael Lind - 2006 - 304 str.
...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 of foreign control of the mouth of the Mississippi was illustrated in iSoz, when... | |
 | Norman Schofield - 2006 - 3 str.
...[France's] temper ... render[s] it impossible that France and the United States can continue long friends. From that moment we must marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation." (Peterson, 1984: 1105). By September, 1802, however, almost the entire French army was lost to disease.... | |
 | A. J. Langguth - 2006 - 499 str.
...market, whoever controlled it became America's enemy. If the French took possession, Jefferson vowed, "from that moment we must marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation." Despite that clear statement, Federalists in Congress still considered Jefferson contaminated by his... | |
 | Alonzo L. Hamby - 2007 - 294 str.
...future development of the United States. Jefferson asserted that if France took possession of Louisiana, "from that moment we must marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation." Napoleon, however, lost interest after the French were expelled from Haiti by a slave revolt. Knowing... | |
 | Garry Wills - 2007 - 490 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. (277) It struck even the messenger, Dupont, that threatening Napoleon might not be the most useful... | |
 | David Mayers - 2007 - 10 str.
...Orleans, the president predicted, the United States would have no alternative to cooperation with Britain: "From that moment we must marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation."16 Jefferson preferred to use diplomatic means before provoking France's wrath or resorting... | |
 | Leroy G. Dorsey - 2008 - 284 str.
...Orleans . . . seals the union of two nations, who in conjunction, can maintain exclusion possession of the ocean. From that moment we must marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation."'" The president wrote these often-quoted words in a letter to Robert R. Livingston, the American minister... | |
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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... 
