Fights for the Flag ...: With Portraits and PlansSmith, Elder, & Company, 15 Waterloo Place, 1906 - Всего страниц: 333 |
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... flame and blasts of thunder as each ship in turn bore up to rake the British admiral . But Nelson himself never showed swifter decision or cooler daring as a leader than did Blake when he unhesitatingly led his fifteen ships to meet Van ...
... flame and blasts of thunder as each ship in turn bore up to rake the British admiral . But Nelson himself never showed swifter decision or cooler daring as a leader than did Blake when he unhesitatingly led his fifteen ships to meet Van ...
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... flames leaped up the masts , and spread from ship to ship , and when night fell the skies above Tunis shone , as bright almost as at noonday , with the flames of the burning ships and bat- teries . Taking warning by the fate of Tunis ...
... flames leaped up the masts , and spread from ship to ship , and when night fell the skies above Tunis shone , as bright almost as at noonday , with the flames of the burning ships and bat- teries . Taking warning by the fate of Tunis ...
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... flames ; by three o'clock nothing was left of them but half - a - dozen drifting blackened wrecks . Then came a sudden change of wind , and Blake's ships ran safely past the forts again to the open sea . They had done their work . They ...
... flames ; by three o'clock nothing was left of them but half - a - dozen drifting blackened wrecks . Then came a sudden change of wind , and Blake's ships ran safely past the forts again to the open sea . They had done their work . They ...
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... flame , a furious whirlwind of white smoke covered the whole front , and this was pierced again , and yet again , by the darting flames of new volleys . The British front seemed to crumble under that tempest of shot ; yet it never ...
... flame , a furious whirlwind of white smoke covered the whole front , and this was pierced again , and yet again , by the darting flames of new volleys . The British front seemed to crumble under that tempest of shot ; yet it never ...
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... flames Frenchmen and Englishmen fought hand to hand with fiery valour . But with the centre destroyed , and the left wing in full retreat , the condition of Tallard's right , shut up in Blenheim , was hopeless , and 11,000 French ...
... flames Frenchmen and Englishmen fought hand to hand with fiery valour . But with the centre destroyed , and the left wing in full retreat , the condition of Tallard's right , shut up in Blenheim , was hopeless , and 11,000 French ...
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advance afterwards Anson army attack battalions battle BATTLE OF MINDEN bayonets betwixt Blenheim breach brigade British line British ships British soldier broadside broke captain Cardigan cavalry centre Centurion charge Ciudad Rodrigo column command Contades Corunna courage crest crew daring deck division Dragoons enemy English fell fierce fight fire flagship flame flank fleet Florence Nightingale force fought French cavalry French line French ships front gallant galleon galloping grey guns Harris head hill horse horsemen infantry Jean Bon Saint-André Lord Cardigan Lord George Lord George Sackville Lord Raglan Marlborough Marmont mass miles Moore Moore's moving Napier Napoleon Navarino officers Queen Charlotte regiments retreat ridge Rifles rode Rodney round Russian sail sailor Salamanca San Sebastian Sandbag Battery says Scarlett shot shout siege slope smoke Soult Spain Spanish squadrons swept sword tempest thrust thunder troops tumult Urumea valley valour Vengeur victory Wellington whole wounded yards