The Life of NelsonRivingtons, 1883 - 280 страници |
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... saving a boat belonging to the Racehorse from a singular but imminent danger . Some of the officers had fired at and wounded a walrus . As no other animal has so human - like an expression in its countenance , so also is there none that ...
... saving a boat belonging to the Racehorse from a singular but imminent danger . Some of the officers had fired at and wounded a walrus . As no other animal has so human - like an expression in its countenance , so also is there none that ...
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... saved by a timely removal . In a few days after the commencement of the siege he was seized with the prevailing dysentery ; meantime Captain Glover ( son of the author of Leonidas ) died , and Nelson was appointed to succeed him in the ...
... saved by a timely removal . In a few days after the commencement of the siege he was seized with the prevailing dysentery ; meantime Captain Glover ( son of the author of Leonidas ) died , and Nelson was appointed to succeed him in the ...
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... saved from consump- tion by that climate , was still in a precarious state of health ; and the raw wet weather of one of our ungenial summers brought on cold , and sore throat , and fever : yet his vessel was kept at the Nore from the ...
... saved from consump- tion by that climate , was still in a precarious state of health ; and the raw wet weather of one of our ungenial summers brought on cold , and sore throat , and fever : yet his vessel was kept at the Nore from the ...
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... saving was made to Government , and thus its attention was directed to similar peculations in other parts of the colonies . But it is said also that no mark of commendation seems to have been bestowed upon Nelson for his exertions . And ...
... saving was made to Government , and thus its attention was directed to similar peculations in other parts of the colonies . But it is said also that no mark of commendation seems to have been bestowed upon Nelson for his exertions . And ...
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... saved their ship , hauled close to the wind , 2 and opened upon him a distant and ineffectual fire . Only seven of the Agamemnon's men were hurt , a thing which Nelson himself remarked as wonderful ; her sails and rigging were very much ...
... saved their ship , hauled close to the wind , 2 and opened upon him a distant and ineffectual fire . Only seven of the Agamemnon's men were hurt , a thing which Nelson himself remarked as wonderful ; her sails and rigging were very much ...
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74 guns action Admiral Admiralty afterwards Agamemnon anchor appointed arms army arrived attack Austrian Bastia batteries battle battle of Copenhagen boats brave BRIGHT'S England British fleet Buonaparte Cadiz Capt Captain Collingwood command Commander-in-Chief conduct Copenhagen Corsica Court crew Danes Danish deck Dispatches Duke Earl St Egypt enemy enemy's England English exertions feelings fire flag force France FRANCIS STORR French fleet frigates Genoa Hardy hoisted honour hope Horatio Nelson hundred island July King Lady Hamilton Lady Nelson land letter Lieutenant Lord Hood Lord Nelson Malta Mediterranean Minorca Naples navy Neapolitan never occasion officers orders port present Prince prizes received replied Robert Calder Royal sail Sardinia seamen sent ships shoal shore shot Sicily siege signal Sir Hyde Sir John Orde soon Spain Spaniards Spanish squadron station taken thought took Toulon troops Troubridge vessels victory Vincent whole wind wounded