Remarks on the Marquis De Chastellux's Travels (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Remarks on the Marquis De Chastellux's Travels The Marquis's testimony is frequently favourable to the British armies, from whose merit, it is obvious, he aims to detract, and indeed it was politic for him to do so, as printed copies of his work were circulated at Paris during the war, the flattering contents of which in all probability echoed to America. Speaking of the strength of Mud Island, the Marquis remarks, " When we recollect the innumerable obstacles the English had to surmount in the present war, it is difficult to assign the cause of their successes, but if we turn our eyes on all the unforeseen events which have deceived the expectations of the Americans, and frustrated their best concerted measures, one cannot but be persuaded that they were devoted to destruction, and that the alliance with France alone proved the means of their preservation." There never can be a greater panegyric bestowed on the Britim generals than what this sentence contains, innumerable obstacles they did surmount, and it did not depend on them to crush the naval power of France. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.