The Monthly Visitor, and Entertaining Pocket Companion, Том 4H.D. Symonds, 1798 |
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... fhips , and to fe veral magazines of naval ftores . They then fteered away for Cherbourg , a fea - port in Normandy . Though they did not in the firft inftance hazard a debarkation , yet they foon returned and effected their purpofe ...
... fhips , and to fe veral magazines of naval ftores . They then fteered away for Cherbourg , a fea - port in Normandy . Though they did not in the firft inftance hazard a debarkation , yet they foon returned and effected their purpofe ...
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... fhips which faced the enemy . Their fire Earl Howe for fome time fuftained alone , Lofing her fore - yard , and being in other refpects crip- pled , his fhip was driven by the wind through the ene- my's fleet to leeward . Here obferving ...
... fhips which faced the enemy . Their fire Earl Howe for fome time fuftained alone , Lofing her fore - yard , and being in other refpects crip- pled , his fhip was driven by the wind through the ene- my's fleet to leeward . Here obferving ...
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... fhips from the impending danger . The prefervation of his flag in 17-8 , off Sandy Hook , has been a theme of applaufe with those who are profoundly verfed in naval tactics . By the arrangement of his flect , the French Admiral d ...
... fhips from the impending danger . The prefervation of his flag in 17-8 , off Sandy Hook , has been a theme of applaufe with those who are profoundly verfed in naval tactics . By the arrangement of his flect , the French Admiral d ...
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... fhips of the line , oppofed to his Majefty's fleet of twenty - five ( the Audacious having parted com- pany with the fternmoft fhip of the enemy's line , cap- tured in the night of the 28th ) waited for the action ,. and fuftained the ...
... fhips of the line , oppofed to his Majefty's fleet of twenty - five ( the Audacious having parted com- pany with the fternmoft fhip of the enemy's line , cap- tured in the night of the 28th ) waited for the action ,. and fuftained the ...
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... fhips of his Majefty's fleet re - affembled later in the day ; and I am preparing to return with them , as foon as the captured fhips of the enemy are fecured , for Spithead . The material injury to his Majefty's fhips , I un- derstand ...
... fhips of his Majefty's fleet re - affembled later in the day ; and I am preparing to return with them , as foon as the captured fhips of the enemy are fecured , for Spithead . The material injury to his Majefty's fhips , I un- derstand ...
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