. In the footsteps of Napoleon, his life and its famous scenes. ht of the chalk cliffs of Albion and fortwo years he bent his giant energies to the formation of themightiest invading fleet ever launched against that he would jump the ditch, he declared thatCffisars expedition was childs play, and that mine isthe enterprise of the Titans. The Roman had only 800 boatsbut the Corsican commanded that there should be built forhim no less than 2000 boats. In one respect and the most important, the latest invadercould not claim any superiority to that first recorded invaderof England
. In the footsteps of Napoleon, his life and its famous scenes. ht of the chalk cliffs of Albion and fortwo years he bent his giant energies to the formation of themightiest invading fleet ever launched against that he would jump the ditch, he declared thatCffisars expedition was childs play, and that mine isthe enterprise of the Titans. The Roman had only 800 boatsbut the Corsican commanded that there should be built forhim no less than 2000 boats. In one respect and the most important, the latest invadercould not claim any superiority to that first recorded invaderof England. After 1800 years had passed since Caesars in-vasion. Napoleon still must depend on sails and oars to carryhim across the channel, as the invention of aerial, steam andsubmarine navigation was then only faintly dawning. While Robert Fulton, with his plans for steamboats andtorpedoes, vainly offered his inventions to the two powers thatwere struggling for the mastery of the waters. Napoleons ship-yards were busily launching his cockle shells and he restlessly. THE UNCONQUBRED SEA 181 moved up and down the coast, which he lined from Havre toAntwerp with sentries, cannon and telegraphic Army of England, as he called his invading force, wasdaily put through drills in embarking and disembarking untilevery man knew his boat and his place in it and 25,000 couldclamber aboard in ten minutes. On the other side the channel, the Great Terror heldEngland in its grip. Had not this Corsican imp raced twicethrough British fleets over the 1400 miles of blue water be-tween France and Egypt? Had he not leaped the Alps?Could a few miles of sea set bounds to his activity? While the credulous peasantry shivered as they listened tostories of his having already landed and, like a wild man,secreted himself in the haunted depths of the neighbouringwoods, where he only awaited his good time to pounce uponthem, the King in daily expectation that Bonaparte will at-tempt his threatened inva
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