...with the eye of a seamen determined on attack, and it instantly struck his eager and penetrating mind, that where there was room for an enemy's ship to swing, there was room for one of ours to anchor. No further signal was necessary than those which had already been made. The admiral's designs were...

...mutual support, and to anchor by the stern. " First gain the victory," he said, " and then make the best use of it you can." The moment he perceived the...there was room for an enemy's ship to swing, there 20 was room for one of ours to anchor. The plan which he intended to pursue, therefore, was to keep...

...is innate. It was seamanship that enabled Nelson at the Nile to discern with unfailing correctness that where there was room for an enemy's ship to swing there was room for one of his to anchor ; it was seamanship that enabled him at Trafalgar to perceive that by breaking and doubling...

...mutual support, and to anchor by the stern. 3 " First gain the victory," he said, " and then make the best use of it you can." The moment he perceived the position of the French, 1 A West India island. 2 The French report is different. Every ship lacked good seamen, and for this...

...mutual support, and to anchor by 1 the stern. "First gain the victory," he said, "and then make the best use of it you can." The moment he perceived the...to swing, there was room for one of ours to anchor. 2 The plan which he intended to pursue, therefore, was to keep entirely on the outer side of the French...

...mutual support, and to anchor by1 the stern. "First gain the victory," he said, "and then make the best use of it you can." The moment he perceived the...enemy's ship to swing, there was room for one of ours to anchor.2 The plan which he intended to pursue, therefore, was to keep entirely on the outer side of...

...mutual support, and to anchor by the stern. " First gain the victory," he said, " and then make the best use of it you can." The moment he perceived the...intuitive genius with which Nelson was endowed displayed itself.—Southey. practice, ber iSrunbfafc thus, auf biefe Sfieife would permit. Use imperf. to be...

...mutual support, and to anchor by the stern. " First gain the victory," he said, " and then make the best use of it you can." The moment he perceived the position of the French, that intuitive genins with which Nelson was endowed displayed itself ; and it instantly struck him that where there...

...mutual support, and to anchor by the stern. " First gain the victory," he said, " and then make the best use of it you can." The moment he perceived the...one of ours to anchor. The plan which he intended to * Abstract of the British Force, in guns and men, actually engaged : — Thirteen ships of 74 guns...

...with the eye of a seaman determined on attack ; and it instantly struck his eager and penetrating mind that where there was room for an enemy's ship to swing, there was room for one of ours to anchor." That sentence is the key to the tactics which won the Nile. Only an actual eye-witness could have described...