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 | Fossey John Cobb Hearnshaw - 1926 - Liczba stron: 334
...forts garrisoned by Egyptian troops on the coast of Midian, Lord Salisbury wrote to Lord Cromer : " I would not be too much impressed by what the soldiers...garrisoning the Moon in order to protect us from Mars." There is one other characteristic which ought not to be omitted, for it is the underlying factor of... | |
 | 1922 - Liczba stron: 942
...outposts are endless. Lord Salisbury, after listening to such appeals, sagely wrote to the Earl of Cromer: 'I would not be too much impressed by what the soldiers...garrisoning the moon, in order to protect us from Mars.' Is not this endless progress to be seen in our own history? A strong reason, among others, why we had... | |
 | 1922 - Liczba stron: 1416
...outposts are endless. Lord Salisbury, after listening to such appeals, sagely wrote to the Earl of Cromer: 'I would not be too much impressed by what the soldiers...garrisoning the moon, in order to protect us from Mars.' Is not this endless progress to be seen in our own history? A strong reason, among others, why we had... | |
 | Charles W. Freeman, Jr. - 1995 - Liczba stron: 616
...not be too much impressed by what the soldiers tell you about the strategic importance of ... places. If they were allowed full scope they would insist...garrisoning the moon in order to protect us from Mars." Lord Salisbury Planning: "Planning, simply defined, should be the place where the political leader... | |
 | Edward M. Spiers - 1998 - Liczba stron: 302
...military advice with profound suspicion. On one occasion he had written to Cromer that, if the soldiers 'were allowed full scope, they would insist on the...garrisoning the moon in order to protect us from Mars'. The fear of being drawn into the reconquest of the Sudan prematurely through military adventurism was... | |
 | Edward M. Spiers - 1998 - Liczba stron: 300
...occasion he had written to Cromer that, if the soldiers 'were allowed full scope, they would msist on the importance of garrisoning the moon in order to protect us from Mars'. The fear of heing drawn into the reconquest of the Sudan prematurely through military adventurism was... | |
 | Evelyn Baring Earl of Cromer - 2000 - Liczba stron: 618
...town. Any isolated wood -cutter or cultivator who roamed beyond the range of the guns was liable to he killed or captured by the stray Dervishes who infested...stated to me in a private letter, dated March 28, 181m, in the following terms : " The arguments against takin? Tokar appear to me to be that the operation... | |
 | Robin Eagles - 2002 - Liczba stron: 544
...be too much impressed by what the soldiers tell you about the strategic importance of these places. If they were allowed full scope they would insist...garrisoning the moon in order to protect us from Mars. • Lord Salisbury commenting on the continuing acquisition ot African colonies, in a letter to Sir... | |
 | Martin Wight - 2002 - Liczba stron: 324
...customary mordancy that one should not be too much impressed by the soldiers' strategic arguments: 'If they were allowed full scope they would insist...of garrisoning the moon in order to protect us from Mars.'13 This was in 1892, before space travel had got beyond the pages of Jules Verne. In 1958 an... | |
 | Roger Owen - 2004 - Liczba stron: 476
...distrust of the blandishments of those like the generals who, in Salisbury's words, if allowed full scope, 'would insist on the importance of garrisoning the Moon in order to protect us from Mars'. 1 " Once this position had been reached sometime in the early 18905, it was no longer a question of... | |
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