 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - History - 1863 - 160 pages
...discovered, with the assistance of a friend, the origin of Windham's statement respecting Martello towers. An attack was made on' the tower of Mortella, in Corsica,...Martello towers generally and this tower of Mortella. See James's ' Naval History of Great Britain,' vol. i., p. 286, ed. 1822, where the event is described.... | |
 | Great Britain - 1863 - 584 pages
...discovered, with the assistance of a friend, the origin of Windham's statement respecting Martello towers. An attack was made on the tower of Mortella, in Corsica,...Martello towers generally and this tower of Mortella." And Lord Stanhope adds some additional facts showing that the derivation suggested by Sir George C.... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanehope Stanhope - History - 1863 - 174 pages
...discovered, with the assistance of a friend, the origin of Windham's statement respecting Martello towers. An attack was made on the tower of Mortella, in Corsica,...Martello towers generally and this tower of Mortella. See James's ' Naval History of Great Britain,' vol. i., p. 286, ed. 1822, where the event is described.... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1870 - 474 pages
...discovered, with the assistance of a friend, the origin of Windham's statement respecting Martello towers. An attack was made on the tower of Mortella * in Corsica,...Martello towers generally and this tower of Mortella. See James's ' Naval History of Great Britain ' (Lond. 1822), vol. ip 286, where the event is described.... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - Great Britain - 1870 - 478 pages
...discovered, with the assistance of a friend, the origin of Windham's statement respecting Martello towers. An attack was made on the tower of Mortella * in Corsica,...Martello towers generally and this tower of Mortella. See James's ' Naval History of Great Britain ' (Lond. 1822), vol. ip 286, where the event is described.... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - Literary Criticism - 1881 - 388 pages
...discovered, with the assistance of a friend, the origin of Windham's statement respecting Martello towers. An attack was made on the tower of Mortella, in Corsica,...defence, but the two attacking ships were beaten off. The circumstance is likely to have given rise to the confusion between Martello towers generally and... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1881 - 390 pages
...discovered, with the assistance of a friend, the origin of Windham's statement respecting Martello towers. An attack was made on the tower of Mortella, in Corsica,...defence, but the two attacking ships were beaten off. The circumstance is likely to have given rise to the confusion between Martello towers generally and... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - Great Britain - 1889 - 412 pages
...discovered, with the assistance of a friend, the origin of Windham's statement respecting Martello towers. An attack was made on the tower of Mortella, in Corsica,...was taken after an obstinate defence, but the two attaching ships were bcaten, off. The circumstance is likely to have given rise to the confusion between... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - English literature - 1891 - 466 pages
...discovered, with the assistance of a friend, the origin of Windham's statement respecting Martello towers. An attack was made on the tower of Mortella, in Corsica,...February, 1794; the tower was taken after an obstinate defense, but the two attacking ships were beaten off. The circumstance is likely to have given rise... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - English literature - 1891 - 466 pages
...; the tower was taken after an obstinate defense, but the two attacking ships were beaten off. The circumstance is likely to have given rise to the confusion...Martello towers generally and this tower of Mortella." And Lord Stanhope adds some additional facts showing that the derivation suggested by Sir George C.... | |
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I think that I have discovered, with the assistance of a friend, the origin of Windham's statement respecting Martello towers. An attack was made on the tower of Mortella, in Corsica, by the British forces both by sea and land, in February 1794. The tower... 
