Fights for the Flag ...: With Portraits and PlansSmith, Elder, & Company, 15 Waterloo Place, 1906 - Всего страниц: 333 |
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... daring seamanship , great fleets , famous admirals , and a world - encompassing trade , it went far to justify that boast . Great Britain had just finished her civil war , and the imperial genius of Cromwell was beginning to make itself ...
... daring seamanship , great fleets , famous admirals , and a world - encompassing trade , it went far to justify that boast . Great Britain had just finished her civil war , and the imperial genius of Cromwell was beginning to make itself ...
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... daring like that of Collingwood when he bore down , far ahead of his column , on Villeneuve's far- stretching line at Trafalgar . In his ship - the James— that is , he outsailed his squadron , and met alone Van Tromp's compact line ...
... daring like that of Collingwood when he bore down , far ahead of his column , on Villeneuve's far- stretching line at Trafalgar . In his ship - the James— that is , he outsailed his squadron , and met alone Van Tromp's compact line ...
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... daring , and , in some cases , brilliant soldiers ; and they soon learnt to manœuvre fleets as they used to deploy battalions . They brought indeed some useful soldierly traditions into marine use - order , discipline , close fighting ...
... daring , and , in some cases , brilliant soldiers ; and they soon learnt to manœuvre fleets as they used to deploy battalions . They brought indeed some useful soldierly traditions into marine use - order , discipline , close fighting ...
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... daring which scorns them . Courage in him spoke with gentle accents , and looked through quiet eyes ; and yet it was as swift as Nelson's , as heroic as Ney's , as cool as Wellington's . And the keynote of Blake's character was that ...
... daring which scorns them . Courage in him spoke with gentle accents , and looked through quiet eyes ; and yet it was as swift as Nelson's , as heroic as Ney's , as cool as Wellington's . And the keynote of Blake's character was that ...
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... daring temper . " I will make the name of Englishman , " he said , " to be as much dreaded as ever was the name of civis Romanus . " Blake's commission was , in general terms , " to see that the foreigners do not fool us . " Blake ...
... daring temper . " I will make the name of Englishman , " he said , " to be as much dreaded as ever was the name of civis Romanus . " Blake's commission was , in general terms , " to see that the foreigners do not fool us . " Blake ...
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