Fights for the Flag ...: With Portraits and PlansSmith, Elder, & Company, 15 Waterloo Place, 1906 - Всего страниц: 333 |
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... English cliffs across the strait to the dunes of Calais , faintly visible through the grey haze . But the fleets engaged were in point of numbers strangely ill- matched . Running westward past the Downs before a fresh breeze came a ...
... English cliffs across the strait to the dunes of Calais , faintly visible through the grey haze . But the fleets engaged were in point of numbers strangely ill- matched . Running westward past the Downs before a fresh breeze came a ...
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... English blood , an instinc- tive claim to sea supremacy in the English imagination . England in 1652 , released from civil strife , was feeling afresh that historic impulse , and was challenging the Dutch naval supremacy . The ...
... English blood , an instinc- tive claim to sea supremacy in the English imagination . England in 1652 , released from civil strife , was feeling afresh that historic impulse , and was challenging the Dutch naval supremacy . The ...
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... English- man fought and died with stubborn courage under the drifting smoke clouds ; and the two fleets , a jungle of swaying masts and shot - torn sails , with all the tumult of their battle , drifted slowly westwards . Even in that ...
... English- man fought and died with stubborn courage under the drifting smoke clouds ; and the two fleets , a jungle of swaying masts and shot - torn sails , with all the tumult of their battle , drifted slowly westwards . Even in that ...
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... English at sea . Never was a line drawn straighter than that formed by their ships ; thus they bring all their fire to bear upon those who draw near them . They fight like a line of cavalry which is handled according to rule , whereas ...
... English at sea . Never was a line drawn straighter than that formed by their ships ; thus they bring all their fire to bear upon those who draw near them . They fight like a line of cavalry which is handled according to rule , whereas ...
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... English , bringing the wind with them , were thundering on the Dutch rear , and striving fiercely to pierce their line . All day long the fleet ran , with the tumult and roar of battle , eastwards . The advantage was slightly with the ...
... English , bringing the wind with them , were thundering on the Dutch rear , and striving fiercely to pierce their line . All day long the fleet ran , with the tumult and roar of battle , eastwards . The advantage was slightly with the ...
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