. The life of Napoleon I, including new materials from the British official records . Medal stkiok to commemorate the intended In\asionFROM Boulogne. Ol2i. Napoleon. ReT. Hercules crushing [he sea en Aite^leterre—Prappee a- Landres en 1804. Delarochcs Trcsor cle Xuinisniatitiuc * and Ivlwards Napoleon I. ^i THE BOULOGNE FLOTILLA 465 pinnaces and row-boats were ready to attack the flotillabefore it could attempt the disembarkation of horses,artillery, and stores, and that 180,000 regulars and militia,aided by 400,000 volunteers, were ready to defend our
. The life of Napoleon I, including new materials from the British official records . Medal stkiok to commemorate the intended In\asionFROM Boulogne. Ol2i. Napoleon. ReT. Hercules crushing [he sea en Aite^leterre—Prappee a- Landres en 1804. Delarochcs Trcsor cle Xuinisniatitiuc * and Ivlwards Napoleon I. ^i THE BOULOGNE FLOTILLA 465 pinnaces and row-boats were ready to attack the flotillabefore it could attempt the disembarkation of horses,artillery, and stores, and that 180,000 regulars and militia,aided by 400,000 volunteers, were ready to defend ourland, the difficulties even of capturing London will beobvious. And the capture of the capital would not havedecided the contest. Napoleon seems to have thought itwould. In his voyage to St. Helena he said : I put allto the hazard ; I entered into no calculations as to themanner in which I was to return ; I trusted all to the im-pression the occupation of the capital would have occa-sioned. 1 — But, as has been shown above (p. 441), planshad been secretly drawn up for the remo
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