The Life of NelsonJohn Murray, 1831 - 352 страници |
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... gun frigates , with a corvette of twenty - four , and a brig of twelve . The Agamemnon had only three hundred and ... guns ; and that ship had received so much damage in the rigging , that she could not follow her . Nelson conceiving ...
... gun frigates , with a corvette of twenty - four , and a brig of twelve . The Agamemnon had only three hundred and ... guns ; and that ship had received so much damage in the rigging , that she could not follow her . Nelson conceiving ...
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... guns were pointed . The Corsicans stopt but Gaffori stood at their head , and or- dered them to continue the fire . Providentially the child escaped , and lived to relate , with becom- ing feeling , a fact so honourable to his father ...
... guns were pointed . The Corsicans stopt but Gaffori stood at their head , and or- dered them to continue the fire . Providentially the child escaped , and lived to relate , with becom- ing feeling , a fact so honourable to his father ...
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... Guns were dragged by the sailors up heights where it appeared almost impossible to convey them ; —a work of the greatest difficulty ; and which Nelson said could never , in his opinion , have been accomplished by any but British seamen ...
... Guns were dragged by the sailors up heights where it appeared almost impossible to convey them ; —a work of the greatest difficulty ; and which Nelson said could never , in his opinion , have been accomplished by any but British seamen ...
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... guns . " The climate proved more des- tructive than the service ; for this was during the lion sun , as they there call our season of the dog- days . Of two thousand men , above half were sick , and the rest like so many phantoms ...
... guns . " The climate proved more des- tructive than the service ; for this was during the lion sun , as they there call our season of the dog- days . Of two thousand men , above half were sick , and the rest like so many phantoms ...
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... , of eighty - four guns , carried away her main and fore top - masts . The Inconstant frigate fired at the disabled ship , but received so many shot , that she was obliged to leave her . Soon afterwards a 80 [ 1794 . LIFE OF NELSON .
... , of eighty - four guns , carried away her main and fore top - masts . The Inconstant frigate fired at the disabled ship , but received so many shot , that she was obliged to leave her . Soon afterwards a 80 [ 1794 . LIFE OF NELSON .
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