Fights for the Flag ...: With Portraits and PlansSmith, Elder, & Company, 15 Waterloo Place, 1906 - Всего страниц: 333 |
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... heavy- footed , solid , grim , were in the seventeenth century , to use the phrase of a French writer , " the Phoenicians of the modern world , the waggoners of all seas . " They were the commercial heirs of Venice . The fire of their ...
... heavy- footed , solid , grim , were in the seventeenth century , to use the phrase of a French writer , " the Phoenicians of the modern world , the waggoners of all seas . " They were the commercial heirs of Venice . The fire of their ...
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... heavy batteries , with a difficult approach . Owing to the high land a fleet might easily be becalmed under the heavy guns of the batteries and so be destroyed ; or if the wind carried the ships into the bay , while it prevailed there ...
... heavy batteries , with a difficult approach . Owing to the high land a fleet might easily be becalmed under the heavy guns of the batteries and so be destroyed ; or if the wind carried the ships into the bay , while it prevailed there ...
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... . " Nothing less than the warlike genius and masterful will of Marl- borough could have wielded into effectiveness an army made up of such diverse elements . Day broke on August 13 heavy with mist ; and MARLBOROUGH AT BLENHEIM 25.
... . " Nothing less than the warlike genius and masterful will of Marl- borough could have wielded into effectiveness an army made up of such diverse elements . Day broke on August 13 heavy with mist ; and MARLBOROUGH AT BLENHEIM 25.
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With Portraits and Plans William Henry Fitchett. Day broke on August 13 heavy with mist ; and under its cover the allied forces moved forward to the attack . Tallard was quite unprepared for an engage- ment , when the fog , lifting for a ...
With Portraits and Plans William Henry Fitchett. Day broke on August 13 heavy with mist ; and under its cover the allied forces moved forward to the attack . Tallard was quite unprepared for an engage- ment , when the fog , lifting for a ...
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... heavy guns , huge quarter - deck galleries , and a crew of over six hundred men . Its captain , a gallant Spaniard , bore steadily down , the standard of Spain flying at the masthead , and at noon , being about a league distant from the ...
... heavy guns , huge quarter - deck galleries , and a crew of over six hundred men . Its captain , a gallant Spaniard , bore steadily down , the standard of Spain flying at the masthead , and at noon , being about a league distant from the ...
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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