Fights for the Flag ...: With Portraits and PlansSmith, Elder, & Company, 15 Waterloo Place, 1906 - Всего страниц: 333 |
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... turning - point in the long duel for the sovereignty of the seas betwixt Great Britain and Holland . In 1654-55 Blake sailed with a powerful fleet for the Mediterranean . Cromwell had demanded from Spain the right of trade with America ...
... turning - point in the long duel for the sovereignty of the seas betwixt Great Britain and Holland . In 1654-55 Blake sailed with a powerful fleet for the Mediterranean . Cromwell had demanded from Spain the right of trade with America ...
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... is the victory which changed the face of history , turned to thinnest air the ambitious dreams of Louis XIV . , saved Protestantism throughout Europe . and secured for the English - speaking race that freedom MARLBOROUGH AT BLENHEIM . 19.
... is the victory which changed the face of history , turned to thinnest air the ambitious dreams of Louis XIV . , saved Protestantism throughout Europe . and secured for the English - speaking race that freedom MARLBOROUGH AT BLENHEIM . 19.
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... turned into the sign of a public- house on his estate . William IV . was sailor enough to value this memorial of one of the most famous ships that ever flew the British flag ; he begged the figure- head from the duke , and placed it at ...
... turned into the sign of a public- house on his estate . William IV . was sailor enough to value this memorial of one of the most famous ships that ever flew the British flag ; he begged the figure- head from the duke , and placed it at ...
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... turned into floating infirmaries ! Not one of these unfortunate invalids , it may be added , lived to return to England ! To supply the place of the 240 more vigorous invalids who had hobbled off in alarm , an equal number of newly ...
... turned into floating infirmaries ! Not one of these unfortunate invalids , it may be added , lived to return to England ! To supply the place of the 240 more vigorous invalids who had hobbled off in alarm , an equal number of newly ...
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... the unfortunate squadron . Never were fiercer seas or blacker skies , or gales more cruelly edged with sleet and ice . The very sails were frozen . The rigging was turned into mere ladders of ice . The 40 FIGHTS FOR THE FLAG.
... the unfortunate squadron . Never were fiercer seas or blacker skies , or gales more cruelly edged with sleet and ice . The very sails were frozen . The rigging was turned into mere ladders of ice . The 40 FIGHTS FOR THE FLAG.
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