The Quarterly Review, Volumes 262-263William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, John Murray, William Smith, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1934 |
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... fleet . Twenty - six other Frenchmen were served in the same way , and the fleet retired only because ammunition had run out . Five years later the city was again bombarded : again Frenchmen ( forty - eight this time ) were propelled ...
... fleet . Twenty - six other Frenchmen were served in the same way , and the fleet retired only because ammunition had run out . Five years later the city was again bombarded : again Frenchmen ( forty - eight this time ) were propelled ...
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... fleet at Camperdown ; on Aug. 1 , 1798 , Nelson destroyed a French fleet at the Battle of the Nile ; in November in that same year Charles Stuart occupied Minorca ; on Aug. 30 , 1799 , Abercromby captured the Dutch fleet in the Helder ...
... fleet at Camperdown ; on Aug. 1 , 1798 , Nelson destroyed a French fleet at the Battle of the Nile ; in November in that same year Charles Stuart occupied Minorca ; on Aug. 30 , 1799 , Abercromby captured the Dutch fleet in the Helder ...
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... fleet ; yet on the outbreak of the War we did not hold the command of the sea , nor during the War did we gain it as we did at Trafalgar . So long as the German High Sea Fleet lay sheltered in the Elbe , because we depended for nine ...
... fleet ; yet on the outbreak of the War we did not hold the command of the sea , nor during the War did we gain it as we did at Trafalgar . So long as the German High Sea Fleet lay sheltered in the Elbe , because we depended for nine ...
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