Fights for the Flag ...: With Portraits and PlansSmith, Elder, & Company, 15 Waterloo Place, 1906 - Всего страниц: 333 |
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... hands . They fished in all waters , traded in all ports , gathered the wealth of the world under all skies , and , as far as marine qualities were concerned , might almost have been web - footed . Holland to - day is a land without ...
... hands . They fished in all waters , traded in all ports , gathered the wealth of the world under all skies , and , as far as marine qualities were concerned , might almost have been web - footed . Holland to - day is a land without ...
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... 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 1650 was a rough- BLAKE AND THE DUTCHMEN 5.
... 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 1650 was a rough- BLAKE AND THE DUTCHMEN 5.
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... hands and weather - battered face . But he had a touch of the simplicity of a child behind his roughness ; and in resource , in fortitude , and in practical seamanship he has never been surpassed . Now an infantry colonel , or a major ...
... hands and weather - battered face . But he had a touch of the simplicity of a child behind his roughness ; and in resource , in fortitude , and in practical seamanship he has never been surpassed . Now an infantry colonel , or a major ...
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... hands , or clamber over them by mounting on each other's shoulders . Suddenly through the smoke on their left came the thunder of galloping hoofs , and with a long - sustained crash twenty squadrons of French horse broke in on the ...
... hands , or clamber over them by mounting on each other's shoulders . Suddenly through the smoke on their left came the thunder of galloping hoofs , and with a long - sustained crash twenty squadrons of French horse broke in on the ...
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... hands . Cutts , however - nicknamed by his men " the Salaman- der , " from his lust of fighting , and habit of always being found where the fire was hottest - had brought up the second line , and the French cavalry recoiled before the ...
... hands . Cutts , however - nicknamed by his men " the Salaman- der , " from his lust of fighting , and habit of always being found where the fire was hottest - had brought up the second line , and the French cavalry recoiled before the ...
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