Fights for the Flag ...: With Portraits and PlansSmith, Elder, & Company, 15 Waterloo Place, 1906 - Всего страниц: 333 |
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... sail at its extremity . A modern seaman would gaze amazed at the spectacle of a seventeenth - century fleet , luffing clumsily into line , or trying to claw to windward . And yet the fighting quality of these clumsy fleets was of a very ...
... sail at its extremity . A modern seaman would gaze amazed at the spectacle of a seventeenth - century fleet , luffing clumsily into line , or trying to claw to windward . And yet the fighting quality of these clumsy fleets was of a very ...
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... sails , with all the tumult of their battle , drifted slowly westwards . Even in that early day , however , the British gunnery had those qualities of speed and fierceness which , somehow , seem to belong to it by right of nature ; and ...
... sails , with all the tumult of their battle , drifted slowly westwards . Even in that early day , however , the British gunnery had those qualities of speed and fierceness which , somehow , seem to belong to it by right of nature ; and ...
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... sails . Blake , with the red squadron , lay directly in the enemy's path ; Penn , with the blue squadron , was five miles to the south ; Monck , with the white squadron , was nearly ten miles to leeward . Blake , however , with his ...
... sails . Blake , with the red squadron , lay directly in the enemy's path ; Penn , with the blue squadron , was five miles to the south ; Monck , with the white squadron , was nearly ten miles to leeward . Blake , however , with his ...
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... sails on the sea rim . That great three days ' fight off Portland - a " stupendous action , " as Clarendon calls it was the turning - point in the long duel for the sovereignty of the seas betwixt Great Britain and Holland . In 1654-55 ...
... sails on the sea rim . That great three days ' fight off Portland - a " stupendous action , " as Clarendon calls it was the turning - point in the long duel for the sovereignty of the seas betwixt Great Britain and Holland . In 1654-55 ...
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... sail spread , but in grim silence , past the batteries at the entrance to the bay . The fire was loud and fierce , but the Spanish markmanship bad . His leading ships , under his favourite officer , Stayner , Blake launched at the ...
... sail spread , but in grim silence , past the batteries at the entrance to the bay . The fire was loud and fierce , but the Spanish markmanship bad . His leading ships , under his favourite officer , Stayner , Blake launched at the ...
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