A Brief Memoir of the Life and Writings of the Late Lieutenant-Colonel William Martin LeakeWhittingham and Wilkins, 1864 - 43 Seiten |
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acquainted Adair Akhmet Effendi Albania Ali Pacha allowed ancient city arrived Asia Minor assistance Athens Basso relievo British Government Cambridge Captain Leake Cerigo charged Cierium city called coast of Albania collection of coins collection of Greek Colonel Leake command Constantinople Corfu dispatch Duke Egypt enemy engaged Europe evacuation execution Foreign Office fortress France French consul French troops frontier geography geography of Greece Grand Vizier Greek coins honour immediate important inscription instructions island of Sardinia January Joannina journey Kelenderi King Kleber Konieh letter literature Lord Collingwood Lord Elgin Lord Harrowby Lord Nelson Lordship's Majesty Majesty's Government Malta marbles MEMOIR military Minister mission months Morea Morier negotiations Nicopolis Numismata Hellenica object opportunity ordnance stores Pacha peace Porte proceed purpose received Royal Artillery sailed Secretary sent ship Sir Alexander Ball Sir Sydney Smith Stephen Martin Swiss army Syria Thessaly Tigre tion travellers treaty Turkey Turks WILLIAM MARTIN LEAKE
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Seite 34 - I am to acquaint you, that his Royal Highness the Prince Regent has been pleased, in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, to approve and confirm the finding and sentence of the Court.
Seite 15 - Nelson was the man to love" said Captain Pulteney Malcolm, who knew intimately both him and Wellington. " I received Captain Leake," Nelson himself says, speaking of an army officer on a special mission to the Mediterranean, " with that openness which was necessary to make myself as well acquainted with him in three days, as others might do in as many years. I have given him all the knowledge of the men, their views, &c. &c., as far as I have been able to form a judgment.
Seite 41 - English and foreign. He was admitted a member of the Society of Dilettanti in 1814; and on the death of Lord Northwick and Mr. Hamilton, in 1859, became second on the list, Lord Aberdeen only being above him. In 1828 he was elected a member of the Club, and at the time of his death was senior member of the Royal Society Club, except one. He was a fellow of the Royal...
Seite 38 - Journal of a Tour in Asia Minor, with remarks on the ancient and modern Geography, 8vo. map, bds.
Seite 43 - His researches, prosecuted under manifold disadvantages, must continue to form the basis of all that yet remains to be done towards completing our systematic knowledge of the subject which has worthily occupied so many years of his life : in all essential points they are models of their kind.
Seite 13 - Lordship's most serious consideration. The question is not, shall the King of Sardinia keep it ? that is out of the question ; he cannot, for any length of time. If France possesses it, Sicily is not safe an hour; and the passage to the Levant is completely blocked up. Pardon me, my Lord, for bringing this important subject again before you : but I really think that I should not do my duty to my Country if I did not I am, &c., NELSON AMD BHONTE.
Seite 39 - Hellenica' not only is every coin feparately registered and described, but its bearing upon Greek history and its connection with the literature, or the mythology, or the paleography, or the political and social condition, or the geography of Ancient Greece are explained in a series of notes extending over the whole work."—Canon J.
Seite 18 - ... to 1810. On retiring from active military service in 1815, he devoted all his energies to the cause of classical learning. The commission, which he received from the Foreign Office in 1804, included an item of special importance in connexion with the topography of Greece. He was there instructed ' to acquire for the British government and nation a more accurate knowledge than has yet been attained of this important and interesting country...
Seite 11 - Uutchinson to accompany the late Mr. William Richard Hamilton (then private secretary to Lord Elgin) into Upper Egypt, for the purpose of making a general survey of that country, as well in regard to its military and geographical, as to its political and commercial state. The results of these labours were a map of the course of the Nile, from the...
Seite 41 - He was a fellow of the Royal Society, and of the Royal Geographical Society; an...