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25912	If this reasoning be true, why stipulate for the_ uti possidetis_? 25912 Is it desirable to take the chances of the campaign, and then be governed by circumstances?
25912	[ 100] Is it to Perry, or to Elliott, that is due the credit of theNiagara''s"action in bearing up across the bows of the"Detroit"?
25912	[ 110] The reflection is inevitable,--Why, then, had he allowed them so to hamper his movements? 25912 But, wrote Armstrong, if you can not raise volunteers,what are you to expect from militia draughts, with their constitutional scruples?"
25912	How far was his expectation as to the results overstrained?
25912	If not, is this the best time to make peace, or is it desirable to take the chances of the campaign and then to be governed by circumstances?
25912	Let a strong force land anywhere, and what will be the effect?"
25912	No[ We?]
25912	On the other hand, take Mackinac, and what is gained but Mackinac itself?
25912	On which flank would Napoleon throw the weight of his attack?
25912	To the direct question,"Did the''Niagara''at any time during the action attempt to make off from the British fleet?"
25912	Two weeks later Castlereagh wrote to the Prime Minister:"Are we prepared to continue the war for territorial arrangements?"
25912	Up to this time, when the first scene closed, what had been the general course of the action?
25912	Was he foolhardy, or only rash?
25912	Which gunboats?
25912	and what now the situation?
25912	and will not my nomination at this moment be a triumph to the Americans, and their friends here and elsewhere?
25911	Can we not agree to suspend our rights, and leave you in a satisfactory manner the enjoyment of the trade? 25911 If the Dey makes peace with every one,"said one of his captains to Nelson,"what is he to do with his ships?"
25911	What is that huge forest of dry trees that spreads itself before the town?
25911	[ 235] Six months later,Is it not notorious that not a seaport in the United States can produce seamen enough to man three merchant ships?
25911	And why, he shrewdly insinuated, precipitate action ahead of knowledge, when the facts must soon be known?
25911	Because France chooses to exempt America from her injurious decrees, are we to consent to their continuance?
25911	But where are your seamen?
25911	Could it be secured?
25911	Does England find inadequate the"manner"of the French Revocation?
25911	If so, where was it?
25911	If the property, for which these vessels were ostensibly despatched, had been really here, why have they been so long delayed?
25911	In short, Champagny''s utterance was the declaration of a fact; but where was the fact itself?
25911	Should she have acquiesced?
25911	The only question was, what did the voice signify?
25911	The point at issue really is not,"Is the property private?"
25911	The question, however, remained,"What is the proper policy conducive to the end which all desire?"
25911	What have Canada and the Canadians to do with either?
25911	What were these principles, pronounced new by the Decree?
25911	Why?
25911	but,"Is the method conducive to the purposes of war?"
25911	that men, so far as they might, simply refused to obey, and wholly departed from respect?
10694	Are they true?
10694	Can these be kept open except by the action of our navy?
10694	Have we here a case in which highly localised or even passive defences are desirable?
10694	He goes on to ask:''How were the glorious seamen, whose memory will be for ever honoured by England and the world, rewarded after their victory?''
10694	How did the Christian kingdom of Jerusalem contrive to exist for more than three- quarters of a century?
10694	How did this extraordinary view of Elizabeth''s conduct arise?
10694	How is all this applicable to the ultimate efficiency of the British Navy?
10694	How was it possible for the Crusaders, in their various expeditions, to achieve even the transient success that occasionally crowned their efforts?
10694	How, then, was the great Carthaginian carrying- trade provided for?
10694	In this was noted his former ship, or the fact of his being entered direct from the shore, which answered to the question''Whence?''
10694	Is local naval defence, then, of any use?
10694	Is not this, it may be asked, a sufficient refutation of those who hold that command of the sea gives security against invasion?
10694	On this there would arise the question, If an army a million strong gives no security against a raid by ten thousand men, is an army worth having?
10694	One column was headed''Whence, and whether prest or not?''
10694	Should we lose those aptitudes, are we likely to reach the position in war gained by our predecessors?
10694	The question now to be considered is, What was the capacity of the merchant service for supplying the demands of the navy?
10694	The question of practical moment is: How are we to guard ourselves against such a surprise?
10694	The question then that naturally arises is-- If the navy did not fill up its complements from the merchant service, how did it fill them up?
10694	The question to be answered is-- Which of the two systems promises to help us most during hostilities?
10694	What became of the 44,000 men not required, of whom about 35,000 must have been of the seaman class and have been discharged from the service?
10694	What had Froude to go upon when he came forward as her accuser?
10694	What other efficient defence against that can a continental country have?
10694	What place is still kept in our memories by even the most illustrious of those who have but recently left us?
10694	What, then, were these arrangements?
10694	Who was the first of sculptors?
10694	Why did the Crusades more and more become maritime expeditions?
10694	Why during the so- called''Hundred Years''War''was England in reality the invader and not the invaded?
10694	Why oblige yourself to use articles kept long in store when much fresher ones could be obtained?
10694	Why were Crecy, Poitiers, Agincourt-- not to mention other combats-- fought, not on English, but on continental soil?
10694	Why''scarcely''?
10694	who the first of painters?
10694	who the first of poets?
19849	Is Her Majesty alive and well?
19849	Shall we fight or shall we fly? 19849 What,"he exclaimed,"would the Kaiser say, if the King wrote a letter like that to Tirpitz?"
19849	Who are you?
19849	Why,they asked,"should the British have so much white man''s country while we have so little?"
19849	An officer awaiting his turn on deck asked,"What are all those men lying down for?"
19849	And a day less or more At sea or ashore, We die-- does it matter when?
19849	And leaders and followers alike, when faithful unto death, are they not among the noblest martyrs ever known?
19849	Anton, however, was a very brave man, and he stoutly replied,"Strike sail?
19849	But the great question was, who is to have the key?
19849	But when, at the end of the week, Sidonia asked Oquendo,"What are we to do now?
19849	But who would have thought that even the Germans would sink every merchantman without the least care for the lives of the crew?
19849	For some were sunk and many were shatter''d, and so could fight us no more-- God of battles, was ever a battle like this in the world before?
19849	He then ran below to see Nelson, who at once asked,"Well, Hardy, how goes the battle?"
19849	INTRODUCTION Who wants to be a raw recruit for life, all thumbs and muddle- mindedness?
19849	If they had the finest navy in the world, why did n''t it wipe the Grand Fleet off the North Sea altogether?
19849	Mortally wounded he simply asked:"Did I lead them straight, Sir?"
19849	Of Spain!--whence is yours?
19849	To the Question, What shall we do to be saved in this World?
19849	What made her shipping safe on every sea?
19849	What"foreign navy"could that be if not the British?
19849	What, then, kept Canada free from the slightest touch of war?
19849	When this total of twenty- seven was reported, the officer reporting said, in a questioning way,"Pretty long odds, Sir?"
19849	Whence is your ship?
19849	Who could have stopped our taking the Spanish, Dutch, and Portuguese possessions in Africa and Asia?
19849	Who is he That every man in arms should wish to be?
19849	Who is the Happy Warrior?
19849	Who made the first sail?
19849	Why did Jacques Cartier take months to make voyages from Europe and up the St. Lawrence when Champlain made them in weeks?
19849	Why?
19849	is the kettle boiled?"
15749	Are there for us beyond the sea horizon none of those essential interests, of those evident dangers, which impose a policy and confer rights?
15749	Are we ready to undertake this?
15749	But is there nothing to the credit side of the account, even perhaps a balance in their favor?
15749	But what right will she invoke against the transfer?
15749	But why, then, if supreme, concede to an enemy immunity for his commerce?
15749	Can it be counted less because they are bound by the ties of blood and close political union to the great communities of the East?
15749	Does this tend to universal peace, general disarmament, and treaties of permanent arbitration?
15749	For what purposes, primarily, do navies exist?
15749	For what, after all, is our not unjustly vaunted European and American civilization?
15749	Have we no right or no call to progress farther in any direction?
15749	How far has it gone?
15749	How shall two walk together except they be agreed?
15749	Is it so as regards Bering Sea?
15749	Is it the harbinger of ready mutual understanding, of quick acceptance of, and delight in, opposing traditions and habits of life and thought?
15749	Is such quick acceptance found now where Easterns and Westerns impinge?
15749	Is the United States willing to see them sold to a powerful rival?
15749	It then could have been said to her, as it now is said to us,"Why go beyond your own borders?
15749	It would be a matter of course for her to fight for her just interests, if need be, and why should not another state say the same?
15749	May it not be so with nations?
15749	Ships answering to this description are the_ kind_ which make naval strength; what is to be its_ degree_?
15749	The outlook-- the signs of the times, what are they?
15749	To what attacks are coasts liable?
15749	Was it so at Samoa?
15749	Was not Turkey in occupation?
15749	What has been the effect of these great armies?
15749	What is all Canada compared with our exposed great cities?
15749	What is our protective system but an organized warfare?
15749	What is that strength to be?
15749	What may its size be?
15749	What preparation is necessary in case such a one is as determined to fight against our demands as we to fight for them?
15749	What their number?
15749	When they resist, what force can they bring against us?
15749	Whence did it come?
15749	Whither is it going?
15749	Why not?
15749	Why?
15749	Will it be said that that was in a past barbaric age?
15749	and"What shall be the end hereof?"
15749	or is there possibly in it also a sign of the times to come, to be studied in connection with other signs, some of which we have noted?
13529	In fact,says Ramatuelle, upholding the French policy,"of what consequence to the English would be the loss of a few ships?"
13529	And if the English position was as strong as good judgment, professional skill, and bold hearts could make it, had it not weak points?
13529	As for a seafaring population adequate to her possible needs, where is it?
13529	At Trafalgar it was not Villeneuve that failed, but Napoleon that was vanquished; not Nelson that won, but England that was saved; and why?
13529	But how far was this concentration intended by Suffren?
13529	But the chain of reasoning was as clear two hundred and fifty years ago as it is now; why then was it so long in being worked out?
13529	But what was the effect upon the vastly greater state, the extreme ambition of whose king was the principal cause of the exhausting wars of this time?
13529	Can a policy or a tradition which justifies such a line of conduct be good?
13529	Could both be held?
13529	Did not the Comte de Grasse know a month before how long, to a day, the supplies on board would last?
13529	Her commerce is even now carried on by others; why should her people desire that which, if possessed, must be defended at great cost?
13529	How account for the seeming reluctance of the man who three years before had made the desperate attacks of Solebay and the Texel?
13529	How can this be, seeing the French had the more ships?
13529	How did they avail themselves of this recognized enormous advantage?
13529	How many ask themselves the strategic question,"How did the ships come to be just there?"
13529	How was it as to Spain?
13529	How would a delay like that of Plevna have affected the fortune of war, had Turkey had any reserve of national power upon which to call?
13529	How, again, does it react upon the people that practise it?
13529	If England with her navy should fail, what could Spain achieve?
13529	If the van ship could not be reached, had he not force enough to double and treble on the third and following ships, as far down the line as he chose?
13529	If they did attempt to beat to windward, had he not ships to"contain"them?
13529	Is it meant, it may be asked, to attribute to sea power alone the greatness or wealth of any State?
13529	Is it necessary, to constitute a real danger to blockade- runners, that the blockading fleet should be in sight?
13529	Is that principle sound?
13529	Thus situated, and putting aside questions of national pride or sensitiveness, what did military wisdom prescribe to England?
13529	Was it France, whose only gain was to seat a Bourbon on the Spanish throne?
13529	Was it Holland, with its barrier of fortified towns, its ruined navy, and its exhausted people?
13529	Was it Spain, whose only gain was to have a Bourbon king instead of an Austrian, and thus a closer alliance with France?
13529	Was it, lastly, Austria, even though she had fought with the money of the sea powers, and gained such maritime States as the Netherlands and Naples?
13529	Was this a mere coincidence, or was it due to conditions that recurred, and may recur again?
13529	Were not the lee ships to leeward?
13529	What disposition was made of it, and how did it thereafter influence the struggle?
13529	What hope for French succor to Canada, when the English fleet had Louisburg under its lee?
13529	What in fact would the loss of a few ships matter to the English?
13529	What made the difference in the results?
13529	What shall be said of this talk about provisions?
13529	What was the determining factor in this strife?
13529	What would become of ships having neither crews nor admiral?
13529	What would happen if Admiral Byron''s fleet should arrive?
13529	What, however, is the effect of this policy upon the general ends of the war, to which it is one of the means, and to which it is subsidiary?
13529	When is a navy to fight, if this was not a time?
13529	Which was more easily to be reached and supported by the fleet?
13529	Why did England dictate, and France accept, terms of peace?
13529	Why did it take so long for the capable men of that day to reach it?
13529	Why was France miserable and exhausted, while England was smiling and prosperous?
13529	Why?
13529	Will there be no money loss, no suffering, consequent upon this?
13529	With what results?
13529	Would it not always have been easy for our rear to remedy the accident by promptly standing on to fill the place of the vessels cut off?
13529	Yet looking only, for the moment, to immediate and evident results, who reaped the benefit?
13529	Yet, admitting that our line was broken, what disasters then would necessarily threaten the fleet?
13529	[ 15] Can this navy be had without restoring the merchant shipping?
13529	was perhaps alone in his kingdom in wishing it?
17547	And has the material of the navy no connection with this bond?
17547	And if he is to act on the offensive, what direction will his operations take; will he secure an advance base; and if so, where?
17547	And this should not amaze us; for where does the Bible say or intimate that love among nations will ever be brought about?
17547	And what is"power,"in the sense in which officials, both military and civilian, use the word?
17547	Are we any more artistic, strong, or beautiful than the Greeks in their palmy days?
17547	Are we braver than the Spartans, more honest than the Chinese, more spiritual than the Hindoos, more religious than the Puritans?
17547	At what time did the change occur whereby the instrument employed dominated the human being who employed it?
17547	But does any military writer condemn Prussia for having made assurance too sure?
17547	But does any naval man believe this wholly?
17547	But how in a battleship carrying a thousand men does the coal- passer in the fire- room do as the captain on the bridge desires?
17547	But is it not equally difficult to associate carelessness with Napoleon?
17547	But what kind of power?
17547	But who will go so far?
17547	But why should an enemy take the trouble to invade us?
17547	Can any worse situation be imagined-- except the situation that would follow when the enemy arrived?
17547	Can commerce impart the external force necessary to divert nations from that path?
17547	Can we really believe that they take no part and feel no pride in those magnificent pageants on the ocean?
17547	China may attract the attention of some as an instance of longevity; but is China a nation in the usual meaning of the word?
17547	Civilization in the past has not operated to soften the relations of nations with each other, so why should it do so now?
17547	Did Russia fear that Japan would force the people of her vast territory into starvation?
17547	Did Spain do so in our last war?
17547	Did these things occur?
17547	Does not a nation give up fighting just as soon as it sees that further fighting would do more harm than good?
17547	For instance, the question is asked:"Do you consider it probable that such or such a thing would happen?"
17547	Has any country ever fought until the people as a mass were starving?
17547	Has starving anything to do with the matter?
17547	How can the General Staff at the Navy Department be trained?
17547	How can we have?
17547	How could our scouts find out anything whatever about the size, composition, and formation of the enemy-- even of his speed and direction of advance?
17547	How could we ascertain?
17547	How is it done?
17547	How long shall any nation stay upon the table- land?
17547	How was it accomplished?
17547	If Japan has learned our secret and mastered it in fifty years, will China not be able to do it in less than fifty years?
17547	Is it essential, and if so, why?
17547	Is it not that the helmsman acts through the medium of mechanism, while the generals act through the medium of men?
17547	Is not modern civilization, with its attendant complexities, rivalries, and jealousies, provocative of quarrels rather than the reverse?
17547	Is not the superior civilization of the present day a mechanical civilization pure and simple?
17547	Is there any change toward peaceful methods now?
17547	Is there_ no_ probability of this?
17547	No general answer can be given to the question:"In what detail shall the orders be?"
17547	Now what does the questioner mean by"probable,"and what does the officer think he means?
17547	Now what kind of"something"would be done under the stimulus of the outbreak of a war for which a country had not laid its plans?
17547	Now why are the office boy and the darky stimulated by these games?
17547	Of what parts should it be composed?
17547	Shall the United States take action now or wait until it is too late?
17547	Since when has a navy consisted of brass and iron?
17547	Since when has the mind and character of man taken a place subordinate to matter?
17547	So what is the outlook for the future, both for the United States and other countries?
17547	So what reasonable hope does even Christianity give us that war between nations will cease?
17547	Strictly speaking, how can there be any courage except moral courage?
17547	The latter is the easier way; is it the better?
17547	These analogies may seem forced-- but are they?
17547	This being the case, what forces exist that may reasonably be expected to change that trend?
17547	This brings us to the important question,"how powerful should our navy be?"
17547	This may seem absurd, and perhaps it is; but why?
17547	This raises the question:"What units shall we need?"
17547	To what are these misses due?
17547	WILL THE IMPORTANCE OF NAVAL POWER INCREASE OR DECREASE?
17547	What are we toiling for?
17547	What do you do?
17547	What is that line?
17547	What principles should be followed in designing, preparing, and operating it in order to get the maximum return for the money expended?
17547	What professional calculator, what lawyer''s clerk was ever more careful than Napoleon was, when dealing with problems of war?
17547	Where shall it be gotten?
17547	Which is the more powerful ship?
17547	Who should examine the reports?
17547	Who was ever more attentive to details, who more industrious, who more untiring?
17547	Why have they endured longer than the others?
17547	Why would she not?
17547	Why?
17547	Will civilization, commerce, or Christianity impart that force?
17547	Will other countries seek foreign trade?
17547	With Map PREFACE What is the navy for?
17547	With such an example before her, should we be surprised that China has also become inoculated with the virus of commercial and political ambitions?
17547	Would Great Britain interfere in our behalf?