Fights for the Flag ...: With Portraits and PlansSmith, Elder, & Company, 15 Waterloo Place, 1906 - Всего страниц: 333 |
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... hundred and fifty years later . Finding negotiation useless , Blake , on April 4 , led in his ships , anchored within half musket - shot of the Dey's batteries , and opened a terrific fire on them . Nine great ships of war lay within ...
... hundred and fifty years later . Finding negotiation useless , Blake , on April 4 , led in his ships , anchored within half musket - shot of the Dey's batteries , and opened a terrific fire on them . Nine great ships of war lay within ...
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... hundred victories since Rocroi , " says Green the historian , " had taught the world to regard the French army as invincible , when Blenheim , and the surrender of the flower of the French soldiery , broke the spell . " But this was the ...
... hundred victories since Rocroi , " says Green the historian , " had taught the world to regard the French army as invincible , when Blenheim , and the surrender of the flower of the French soldiery , broke the spell . " But this was the ...
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... hundred and odd men which remained alive we could not , taking all our watches together , muster hands enough to work the ship on an emergency , though we included the officers , their servants , and their boys . " The next day the ...
... hundred and odd men which remained alive we could not , taking all our watches together , muster hands enough to work the ship on an emergency , though we included the officers , their servants , and their boys . " The next day the ...
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... hundred days at Juan Fernandez . The three ships with him had crews amounting to 961 men when they sailed from England , and of these already 626 were dead ! There remained of his squadron only three shattered vessels , with 335 men and ...
... hundred days at Juan Fernandez . The three ships with him had crews amounting to 961 men when they sailed from England , and of these already 626 were dead ! There remained of his squadron only three shattered vessels , with 335 men and ...
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... 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 Centurion , brought to under topsails , and waited resolutely for ...
... 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 Centurion , brought to under topsails , and waited resolutely for ...
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