Fights for the Flag ...: With Portraits and PlansSmith, Elder, & Company, 15 Waterloo Place, 1906 - Всего страниц: 333 |
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... looked down on a great historic scene . In the famous strait beneath , some sixty great ships were engaged in the fiery wrestle of battle , and the sullen , deep - voiced roar of their guns rolled from the white English cliffs across ...
... looked down on a great historic scene . In the famous strait beneath , some sixty great ships were engaged in the fiery wrestle of battle , and the sullen , deep - voiced roar of their guns rolled from the white English cliffs across ...
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... looked through quiet eyes ; and yet it was as swift as Nelson's , as heroic as Ney's , as cool as Wellington's . And the keynote of Blake's character was that magnificent word DUTY , which Nelson spelt out with many - coloured flags to ...
... looked through quiet eyes ; and yet it was as swift as Nelson's , as heroic as Ney's , as cool as Wellington's . And the keynote of Blake's character was that magnificent word DUTY , which Nelson spelt out with many - coloured flags to ...
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... looked at to - day through the lens of his defeated and inglorious old age , and the true scale of his intellect , and of his ambition , is not realised . But in the qualities of an imperious will , a masterful intellect , and an ...
... looked at to - day through the lens of his defeated and inglorious old age , and the true scale of his intellect , and of his ambition , is not realised . But in the qualities of an imperious will , a masterful intellect , and an ...
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... looked a great and daring spirit . Eugene was a soldier as daring as Ney or Murat , and with their delight in the rapture of the onfall , the thunder of galloping hoofs , and the loud challenge of the cannon . But he was also one of the ...
... looked a great and daring spirit . Eugene was a soldier as daring as Ney or Murat , and with their delight in the rapture of the onfall , the thunder of galloping hoofs , and the loud challenge of the cannon . But he was also one of the ...
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... that ever flew the British flag ; he begged the figure- head from the duke , and placed it at the head of the grand staircase in Windsor Castle . And for years , be- neath the grim lion's head that had looked out so 34 FIGHTS FOR THE FLAG.
... that ever flew the British flag ; he begged the figure- head from the duke , and placed it at the head of the grand staircase in Windsor Castle . And for years , be- neath the grim lion's head that had looked out so 34 FIGHTS FOR THE FLAG.
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