Fights for the Flag ...: With Portraits and PlansSmith, Elder, & Company, 15 Waterloo Place, 1906 - Всего страниц: 333 |
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... officer , Stayner , Blake launched at the galleons , but with the remainder of the squadron Blake himself rounded on the flank of the batteries , covering Stayner from their fire . For four hours the 700 guns of ships and batteries sent ...
... officer , Stayner , Blake launched at the galleons , but with the remainder of the squadron Blake himself rounded on the flank of the batteries , covering Stayner from their fire . For four hours the 700 guns of ships and batteries sent ...
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... officers were men like Cutts and Rowe and Kane and Ingoldsby , not , perhaps , great generals , but soldiers who , in fight- ing quality , in the stubborn bulldog pluck that never recognises defeat , were equal to the Pictons , and Crau ...
... officers were men like Cutts and Rowe and Kane and Ingoldsby , not , perhaps , great generals , but soldiers who , in fight- ing quality , in the stubborn bulldog pluck that never recognises defeat , were equal to the Pictons , and Crau ...
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... officers lead- ing , tried to carry the palisades with the bayonet . The great breach at Badajos did not witness a more fiery valour ; but Blenheim was held by a force double in strength to that attacking it , with every advantage of ...
... officers lead- ing , tried to carry the palisades with the bayonet . The great breach at Badajos did not witness a more fiery valour ; but Blenheim was held by a force double in strength to that attacking it , with every advantage of ...
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... officers , and there was witnessed the amazing spectacle of a ship carrying 66 guns and 500 men being held by eleven Indians . The Spanish admiral barricaded himself in his cabin for safety , part of the crew in wild terror escaped into ...
... officers , and there was witnessed the amazing spectacle of a ship carrying 66 guns and 500 men being held by eleven Indians . The Spanish admiral barricaded himself in his cabin for safety , part of the crew in wild terror escaped into ...
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... officers were unsurpassed among the sailors of all ages and of all seas ; but the appliances of navigation in 1740 were rude , and the science of it imperfectly understood . Anson intended " to hit the island on a meridian , " and ...
... officers were unsurpassed among the sailors of all ages and of all seas ; but the appliances of navigation in 1740 were rude , and the science of it imperfectly understood . Anson intended " to hit the island on a meridian , " and ...
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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