As soon as the troops, with all their baggage, were finally settled in the vessels allotted for their accommodation, the signal was made to weigh; but the wind being adverse, and the navigation of the garonne far from simple, it could not be obeyed with safety.
"The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815"
G. R. Gleig
Instead of fifteen hundred, had ten thousand men sailed from the garonne under General Ross, how differently might he have acted!
"The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815"
G. R. Gleig
The salt lake, with its little cluster of fishermen's cottages, lies within a couple of hours' journey by rail from Bordeaux, a toiling, prosperous place, which, seated on the broad garonne, longed for the sea.
"Faces and Places"
Henry William Lucy