Fights for the Flag ...: With Portraits and PlansSmith, Elder, & Company, 15 Waterloo Place, 1906 - Всего страниц: 333 |
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... fleets engaged were in point of numbers strangely ill- matched . Running westward past the Downs before a fresh breeze ... fleet of fifteen ships under Blake , who was in no sense a seaman , but who comes next to Nelson A himself in the ...
... fleets engaged were in point of numbers strangely ill- matched . Running westward past the Downs before a fresh breeze ... fleet of fifteen ships under Blake , who was in no sense a seaman , but who comes next to Nelson A himself in the ...
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... fleet , luffing clumsily into line , or trying to claw to windward . And yet the fighting quality of these clumsy fleets was of a very high order . These Dutchmen , heavy- footed , solid , grim , were in the seventeenth century , to use ...
... fleet , luffing clumsily into line , or trying to claw to windward . And yet the fighting quality of these clumsy fleets was of a very high order . These Dutchmen , heavy- footed , solid , grim , were in the seventeenth century , to use ...
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... fleet of more than twice his own numbers , and led by an admiral of Van Tromp's fame and genius . For four hours the ... fleets , a jungle of swaying masts and shot - torn sails , with all the tumult of their battle , drifted slowly ...
... fleet of more than twice his own numbers , and led by an admiral of Van Tromp's fame and genius . For four hours the ... fleets , a jungle of swaying masts and shot - torn sails , with all the tumult of their battle , drifted slowly ...
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... fleet . Early in 1649 Parlia- ment undertook to reorganise the fleet , and it issued a commission to three colonels — of whom Blake was one- to be " admirals and generals of the fleet now at sea . " An admiral in topboots and spurs ...
... fleet . Early in 1649 Parlia- ment undertook to reorganise the fleet , and it issued a commission to three colonels — of whom Blake was one- to be " admirals and generals of the fleet now at sea . " An admiral in topboots and spurs ...
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... fleets when he scarcely knew “ lar- board " from " starboard . " He did not know the very alphabet of sca dialect . It is said that Monck , who was another " admiral in spurs , " in the middle of an action sent a shout of laughter round ...
... fleets when he scarcely knew “ lar- board " from " starboard . " He did not know the very alphabet of sca dialect . It is said that Monck , who was another " admiral in spurs , " in the middle of an action sent a shout of laughter round ...
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