Fights for the Flag ...: With Portraits and PlansSmith, Elder, & Company, 15 Waterloo Place, 1906 - Всего страниц: 333 |
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... shot - torn 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 ...
... shot - torn 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 ...
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... shot , still faster and more fiercely did Blake's men reply . Monck and Penn , who saw their commander - in - chief apparently swallowed up in the mass of hostile ships , beat furiously up to join MAARTEN HARPERTSZOON TROMP Luitenant ...
... shot , still faster and more fiercely did Blake's men reply . Monck and Penn , who saw their commander - in - chief apparently swallowed up in the mass of hostile ships , beat furiously up to join MAARTEN HARPERTSZOON TROMP Luitenant ...
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... anchored within half musket - shot of the Dey's batteries , and opened a terrific fire on them . Nine great ships of war lay within the harbour . When the cannonade was at its height Blake lowered his boats , IO FIGHTS FOR THE FLAG.
... anchored within half musket - shot of the Dey's batteries , and opened a terrific fire on them . Nine great ships of war lay within the harbour . When the cannonade was at its height Blake lowered his boats , IO FIGHTS FOR THE FLAG.
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... shot ; yet it never swerved or faltered . On through smoke and flame it came . Rowe led it , moving straight forward , till he struck the palisades with his sword , and bade his men fire . the word into flame . The whole British front ...
... shot ; yet it never swerved or faltered . On through smoke and flame it came . Rowe led it , moving straight forward , till he struck the palisades with his sword , and bade his men fire . the word into flame . The whole British front ...
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... shot or worn a uniform - were drafted on board . Thus laden with sickness and infirmity at the very outset , Anson's squadron set out on its ill - fated yet splendid voyage . Anson's squadron consisted of the Centurion , of 60 guns ...
... shot or worn a uniform - were drafted on board . Thus laden with sickness and infirmity at the very outset , Anson's squadron set out on its ill - fated yet splendid voyage . Anson's squadron consisted of the Centurion , of 60 guns ...
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