Fight For The Flags [Illustrated Edition]Pickle Partners Publishing, 6 нояб. 2015 г. - Всего страниц: 276 Includes 15 portraits and 14 maps W. H. Fitchett brings to life some of the most notable clashes of arms between the British and the various enemies that they have fought against, from Minden to the Crimean War, from Blenheim to Salamanca. “Fights for the Flag is as good as Deeds that Won the Empire. To say more than this in praise of the book before us is unnecessary, for Deeds that Won the Empire was one of the best collections of popular battle studies ever given to the public. Mr. Fitchett shows in Fights for the Flag all the good qualities which he showed in his first volume. There is the same admirable clearness of style, the same comprehensive sympathy, the same power to stir the blood and to paint noble deeds in fitting words. We note, too, the same excellent use of telling quotations. Whenever he can Mr. Fitchett gives what the Generals said in their own words, and not a mere rechauffé of their utterances. Thus Mr. Fitchett’s work, though necessarily short and compressed, is never dull. Again, he shows here, as in his former book, the same power of describing localities and for bringing before one the place of battle. No writer ever had more completely the art of making one realise how opposing forces move both by land and sea.”-The Spectator |
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... bellowing guns, thundering on his rear. One Dutch captain, grappled on each side by an English ship, set fire to his own vessel that the three might sink together. The British, however, drew off, and left the Dutchman to blow.
... bellowing guns, thundering on his rear. One Dutch captain, grappled on each side by an English ship, set fire to his own vessel that the three might sink together. The British, however, drew off, and left the Dutchman to blow.
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... captains orders to scatter, and when day broke again the Dutch ships had disappeared, or were discoverable only as tips of vanishing sails on the sea rim. That great three days' fight off Portland—a “stupendous action,” as Clarendon ...
... captains orders to scatter, and when day broke again the Dutch ships had disappeared, or were discoverable only as tips of vanishing sails on the sea rim. That great three days' fight off Portland—a “stupendous action,” as Clarendon ...
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... captains, with those rare and reluctant tears that brave men weep running down their weather-beaten faces, were standing round his bed bidding farewell to their great chief. Just as the slow-moving George dropped her anchor Blake ...
... captains, with those rare and reluctant tears that brave men weep running down their weather-beaten faces, were standing round his bed bidding farewell to their great chief. Just as the slow-moving George dropped her anchor Blake ...
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... captains, taciturn sons of Anak, are still born in England; and sea-kings, equal to any that were.... That memorable Voyage of his is a real poem in its kind, or romance all fact; one of the pleasantest little books in the world's ...
... captains, taciturn sons of Anak, are still born in England; and sea-kings, equal to any that were.... That memorable Voyage of his is a real poem in its kind, or romance all fact; one of the pleasantest little books in the world's ...
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... included the officers, their servants, and their boys.” The next day the Tryal made its appearance; out of her crew of 100 men, 34 had died. Only the captain, lieutenant, and three men were able to stand by the sails. On.
... included the officers, their servants, and their boys.” The next day the Tryal made its appearance; out of her crew of 100 men, 34 had died. Only the captain, lieutenant, and three men were able to stand by the sails. On.
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THE BATTLE OF MINDEN AUGUST 1 1759 49 | |
RODNEY AND DE GRASSE AT THE BATTLE OF THE SAINTS | |
LORD HOWE AND THE FIRST OF JUNE 1794 73 | |
SIR JOHN MOORE AT CORUNNA JANUARY 16 1809 85 | |
WELLINGTON AT SALAMANCA JULY 22 1812 100 | |
SIR AUGUSTUS FRAZER K C B THE SIEGE OF | |
SIR EDWARD CODRINGTON AT NAVARINO OCTOBER | |
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FAMOUS CAVALRY CHARGES 159 | |
THE MEN IN THE RANKS 175 | |
THE LADY WITH THE LAMP 188 | |
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