Russia can expand to the south and east.

America we can take at our leisure, finding our pretext in Louisiana or in Canada.

There is a world empire waiting for us, and there is the only thing that stops us.' He pointed out through the opening of the tent at the broad blue Channel.
Far away, like snow-white gulls in the distance, were the sails of the blockading fleet.

I thought again of what I had seen the night before--the lights of the ships upon the sea and the glow of the camp upon the shore.

The powers of the land and of the ocean were face to face whilst a waiting world stood round to see what would come of it..