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The Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire 1793-1812, Vol II
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The San Domingo expedition cost the lives of over twenty-five thousand French soldiers.
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The British ambassador in Paris reached the same conclusion from the instructions sent by Talleyrand to the French envoy in London. "It appears from this note that this government is not desirous to proceed to extremities; that is to say, it is not prepared to do so." (March 18; Parl. Hist., vol. xxxvi. p. 1315.) The United States minister in Paris also wrote, March 24, "Here there is an earnest and sincere desire to avoid war, as well in the government as the people." (Am. State Papers, ii. 549.)
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Instructions to Duroc, March 12, 1803, Corr. de Nap., vol. viii. pp. 307-311. It is noteworthy that these instructions were issued the same day that was received in Paris information of the king's message to Parliament of March 8, that "in consequence of military preparations in the ports of France and Holland he had adopted additional measures of precaution." Two days later the militia was called out.
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Corr. de Nap., vol. viii. p. 308.
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Parl. Hist., vol. xxxvi. p. 1293.
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Speech of May 23, 1803.
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Naval Chronicle, vol. ix. pp. 243, 247, 329, 330, 332, 491.
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Am. State Papers, vol. ii. p. 553.
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Ibid.
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In case of war, it was the purpose of the British government to send an expedition to occupy New Orleans, as it did afterwards in 1814. (Am. State papers, vol. ii. pp. 551, 557.)
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Napoleon to Talleyrand; Corr. de Nap., May 13, 1803.
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Thiers, Consulat et Empire, livre xx. p. 182.
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The French republic had devoured under the form of assignats an immense amount of national property.—Thiers: Cons. et Emp., livre xvii. p. 377.
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"Holland," says Thiers, "would have wished to remain neutral; but the first consul had taken a resolution, whose justice cannot be denied, to make every maritime nation aid in our strife against Great Britain." (Cons. et Emp., livre xvii. p. 383.)
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Metternich's Memoirs, vol. i. p. 48, note.
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Chénier's Vie du Maréchal Davout, Paris, 1866.
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See Naval Chronicle, vol. x. pp. 508, 510; vol. xi. p. 81. Nelson's Dispatches, vol. v. p. 438.
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Pellew's Life of Lord Sidmouth, vol. ii. p. 237.
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Nelson's Dispatches, vol. iv. p. 452.
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Parl. Debates, March 15, 1804.
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Mémoires du Duc de Raguse, vol. ii. p. 212.
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Nelson's Disp. and Letters, vol. iv pp. 444-447.
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Nelson's Disp., vol. iv. p 500.
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James, Nav. Hist., vol. iii. p. 212 (ed. 1878).
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See Cobbett's Reg., vol. v. pp. 442, 443, for some very sensible remarks on Pitt's attack, written by Cobbett himself.
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