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  • The flying squadron has sailed after having awaited the return of the "Inconstant" from docking at Nagasaki.

    In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 J. J. Smith

  • There were between 400 and 500 men on board the brig (the 'Inconstant') in which Bonaparte embarked.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

  • A portion of the soldiers was embarked in a brig called the 'Inconstant' and the remainder in six small craft.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

  • "Inconstant," H.M.S., carries off Wolfe's statue; address of Quebec ladies to officers of; reply of officers.

    Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present 1868

  • A portion of the soldiers was embarked in a brig called the 'Inconstant' and the remainder in six small craft.

    The Memoirs of Napoleon Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de 1836

  • He sat down at table with them, and they began to drink and indulge themselves in gross jokes, while, like Mirabel in the "Inconstant," their prisoner had the heavy task of receiving their insolence as wit, answering their insults with good-humour, and withholding from them the opportunity which they sought of engaging him in a quarrel, that they might have a pretence for misusing him.

    Old Mortality, Volume 2. Walter Scott 1801

  • He sat down at table with them, and they began to drink and indulge themselves in gross jokes, while, like Mirabel in the "Inconstant," their prisoner had the heavy task of receiving their insolence as wit, answering their insults with good-humour, and withholding from them the opportunity which they sought of engaging him in a quarrel, that they might have a pretence for misusing him.

    Old Mortality, Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • There were between 400 and 500 men on board the brig (the 'Inconstant') in which Bonaparte embarked.

    Memoirs of Napoleon — Complete Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne 1801

  • A portion of the soldiers was embarked in a brig called the 'Inconstant' and the remainder in six small craft.

    Memoirs of Napoleon — Complete Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne 1801

  • France when he said to his comrades on the "Inconstant": "There is no historic example that induces me to venture on this bold enterprise: but I have taken into account the surprise that will seize on men, the state of public feeling, the resentment against the allies, the love of my soldiers, in fine, all the Napoleonic elements that still germinate in our beautiful France." [

    The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 2 of 2) John Holland Rose 1898

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