A New Collection of Voyages, Discoveries and Travels: Containing Whatever is Worthy of Notice, in Europe, Asia, Africa and America, Том 7J. Knox, 1767 |
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... frigates , From Exeter , A ftout pinnace , From Plymouth , ftout fhips , every way equal to the queen's men of war , A fly - boat , Under the command of Lord Henry Seymour , in the narrow feas , of the queen's fhips and veffels in her ...
... frigates , From Exeter , A ftout pinnace , From Plymouth , ftout fhips , every way equal to the queen's men of war , A fly - boat , Under the command of Lord Henry Seymour , in the narrow feas , of the queen's fhips and veffels in her ...
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... frigates in the English fleet pur- fued them clofely , till the Dutch admiral , perceiving they were but small , and of no great ftrength , turned his helm , and refolved to engage them ; but fome bigger fhips coming into their ...
... frigates in the English fleet pur- fued them clofely , till the Dutch admiral , perceiving they were but small , and of no great ftrength , turned his helm , and refolved to engage them ; but fome bigger fhips coming into their ...
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... frigate burnt , and up- ward of five hundred feamen . Some very fingular circumftances attended this ex- traordinary victory , and deferve therefore to be men- tioned . There were feveral merchant - men in the fleet , and Monk , finding ...
... frigate burnt , and up- ward of five hundred feamen . Some very fingular circumftances attended this ex- traordinary victory , and deferve therefore to be men- tioned . There were feveral merchant - men in the fleet , and Monk , finding ...
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... frigates , and twenty- foven fire - fhips . The firit defign they had , was to join the French fquadron , which Louis XIV . had preisiled to fit cut for their aftance ; in this they ware mot egregioufly difappointed , and after a dan ...
... frigates , and twenty- foven fire - fhips . The firit defign they had , was to join the French fquadron , which Louis XIV . had preisiled to fit cut for their aftance ; in this they ware mot egregioufly difappointed , and after a dan ...
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... frigates attacked feven of the enemies beft fhips near cape Gaeta . The admiral and vice - admiral of the Algerincs carried fifty - fix gans each ; their rear - admiral , the biggest fhip in the fquadron , carried fixty , and the left ...
... frigates attacked feven of the enemies beft fhips near cape Gaeta . The admiral and vice - admiral of the Algerincs carried fifty - fix gans each ; their rear - admiral , the biggest fhip in the fquadron , carried fixty , and the left ...
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