The Life of NelsonAmalgamated Press, 1905 - 334 страници |
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... Fleet - Nelson chases them to the West Indies , and back - Delivers up his Squadron to Admiral Cornwallis , and lands in England . . 147 CHAPTER IX Sir Robert Calder falls in with the combined Fleets - They form a junc- tion with the ...
... Fleet - Nelson chases them to the West Indies , and back - Delivers up his Squadron to Admiral Cornwallis , and lands in England . . 147 CHAPTER IX Sir Robert Calder falls in with the combined Fleets - They form a junc- tion with the ...
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... fleet of one hundred and twenty - five sail , men of war and transports , and a reputed force of five and twenty thousand men , threatened Jamaica from St. Domingo . Nelson offered his services to the Admiral and to Governor General ...
... fleet of one hundred and twenty - five sail , men of war and transports , and a reputed force of five and twenty thousand men , threatened Jamaica from St. Domingo . Nelson offered his services to the Admiral and to Governor General ...
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... fleet , by a similar manœuvre , not long before . The frigate alone continued warily to pursue him ; but , as soon as he perceived that his enemy was unsupported , he shortened sail , and hove to : upon which the Frenchman thought it ...
... fleet , by a similar manœuvre , not long before . The frigate alone continued warily to pursue him ; but , as soon as he perceived that his enemy was unsupported , he shortened sail , and hove to : upon which the Frenchman thought it ...
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... fleet of transports to New York . " A very pretty job , " said her captain , " at this late season of the year " ( October was far advanced ) , " for our sails are at this moment frozen to the yards . " On his arrival at Sandy Hook , he ...
... fleet of transports to New York . " A very pretty job , " said her captain , " at this late season of the year " ( October was far advanced ) , " for our sails are at this moment frozen to the yards . " On his arrival at Sandy Hook , he ...
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... fleet arrived in those seas at a time when the south of France would willingly have formed itself into a separate republic , under the protection of England . But good principles had been at that time perilously abused by ignorant and ...
... fleet arrived in those seas at a time when the south of France would willingly have formed itself into a separate republic , under the protection of England . But good principles had been at that time perilously abused by ignorant and ...
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