Fights for the Flag ...: With Portraits and PlansSmith, Elder, & Company, 15 Waterloo Place, 1906 - Всего страниц: 333 |
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... less splendid the courage with which Blake , with fifteen ships , faced the Dutch fleet of more than twice his own numbers , and led by an admiral of Van Tromp's fame and genius . For four hours the thunder of the battle rolled over the ...
... less splendid the courage with which Blake , with fifteen ships , faced the Dutch fleet of more than twice his own numbers , and led by an admiral of Van Tromp's fame and genius . For four hours the thunder of the battle rolled over the ...
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... less than twenty years afterwards , wrote , “ Nothing equals the beautiful order of the English at sea . Never was a line drawn straighter than that formed by their ships ; thus they bring all their fire to bear upon those who draw near ...
... less than twenty years afterwards , wrote , “ Nothing equals the beautiful order of the English at sea . Never was a line drawn straighter than that formed by their ships ; thus they bring all their fire to bear upon those who draw near ...
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... 1652. The Dutchman had some eighty ships , Blake less than forty . Blake had discovered the secret which Nelson rediscovered afterwards , that the British sailor fights to best advantage at close quarters . BLAKE AND THE DUTCHMEN 7.
... 1652. The Dutchman had some eighty ships , Blake less than forty . Blake had discovered the secret which Nelson rediscovered afterwards , that the British sailor fights to best advantage at close quarters . BLAKE AND THE DUTCHMEN 7.
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... less than £ 600,000 being found in one ship alone . But the largest squadron of plate - ships lay at Santa Cruz , under the great peak of Teneriffe , kept by the terror of Blake's name from attempting to reach the Spanish coast , and ...
... less than £ 600,000 being found in one ship alone . But the largest squadron of plate - ships lay at Santa Cruz , under the great peak of Teneriffe , kept by the terror of Blake's name from attempting to reach the Spanish coast , and ...
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... less selfish , a more simply and nobly loyal servant . His corpse was rowed by his sailors up the Thames , carried in state to Westminster Abbey , and laid in Henry VII.'s chapel — the noblest bit of human dust in even that mausoleum of ...
... less selfish , a more simply and nobly loyal servant . His corpse was rowed by his sailors up the Thames , carried in state to Westminster Abbey , and laid in Henry VII.'s chapel — the noblest bit of human dust in even that mausoleum of ...
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