Fights for the Flag ...: With Portraits and PlansSmith, Elder, & Company, 15 Waterloo Place, 1906 - Всего страниц: 333 |
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... half bagman , half buccaneer , and , to quote Hannay , " 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 ...
... half bagman , half buccaneer , and , to quote Hannay , " 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 ...
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... half - moon formation , with the huge convoy held in its embrace , and steadily drifted , a great island of canvas , along the French coast . But at daybreak the English , bringing the wind with them , were thundering on the Dutch rear ...
... half - moon formation , with the huge convoy held in its embrace , and steadily drifted , a great island of canvas , along the French coast . But at daybreak the English , bringing the wind with them , were thundering on the Dutch rear ...
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... anchored within half musket - shot of the Dey's batteries , and opened a terrific fire on them . Nine great ships of war lay within the harbour . When the cannonade was at its height Blake lowered his boats , IO FIGHTS FOR THE FLAG.
... anchored within half musket - shot of the Dey's batteries , and opened a terrific fire on them . Nine great ships of war lay within the harbour . When the cannonade was at its height Blake lowered his boats , IO FIGHTS FOR THE FLAG.
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... 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 had not merely " singed the King of Spain's beard ...
... 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 had not merely " singed the King of Spain's beard ...
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... half Italy , in a word , and more than half America . Here , then , was the menace of an empire which in scale exceeded that of Cæsar , and in temper was inspired by the policy which drove the Huguenots into exile , and would have kept ...
... half Italy , in a word , and more than half America . Here , then , was the menace of an empire which in scale exceeded that of Cæsar , and in temper was inspired by the policy which drove the Huguenots into exile , and would have kept ...
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