Fights for the Flag ...: With Portraits and PlansSmith, Elder, & Company, 15 Waterloo Place, 1906 - Всего страниц: 333 |
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... carrying a tiny mast with a square sail at its extremity . A modern seaman would gaze amazed at the spectacle of a seventeenth - century fleet , luffing clumsily into line , or trying to claw to windward . And yet the fighting quality ...
... carrying a tiny mast with a square sail at its extremity . A modern seaman would gaze amazed at the spectacle of a seventeenth - century fleet , luffing clumsily into line , or trying to claw to windward . And yet the fighting quality ...
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... carried a sample of woollen goods in one hand and a boarding - pike in the other . " Macaulay says of the fleet of that period that " the gentlemen were not sailors , and the sailors were not gentlemen . " No doubt the British scaman of ...
... carried a sample of woollen goods in one hand and a boarding - pike in the other . " Macaulay says of the fleet of that period that " the gentlemen were not sailors , and the sailors were not gentlemen . " No doubt the British scaman of ...
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... carried something of the steadiest discipline and terrible fighting power of the famous Ironsides into the naval tactics of their day . Certainly Blake had all the moral and intellectual endowments of 6 FIGHTS FOR THE FLAG.
... carried something of the steadiest discipline and terrible fighting power of the famous Ironsides into the naval tactics of their day . Certainly Blake had all the moral and intellectual endowments of 6 FIGHTS FOR THE FLAG.
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... carried the British flag , as a symbol of terror and power , round the Mediterranean ports , and established in the great mid- land sea a supremacy which has never been lost since . His cruise , indeed , marks that assumption of what ...
... carried the British flag , as a symbol of terror and power , round the Mediterranean ports , and established in the great mid- land sea a supremacy which has never been lost since . His cruise , indeed , marks that assumption of what ...
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... the high land a fleet might easily be becalmed under the heavy guns of the batteries and so be destroyed ; or if the wind carried the ships into the bay , while it prevailed there was no chance of escaping out of 12 FIGHTS FOR THE FLAG.
... the high land a fleet might easily be becalmed under the heavy guns of the batteries and so be destroyed ; or if the wind carried the ships into the bay , while it prevailed there was no chance of escaping out of 12 FIGHTS FOR THE FLAG.
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