 | American periodicals - 1850 - 642 pages
...something useful from amongst the most fatal errors. I have found out that an admiral should endeavor to run into an enemy's port immediately after he appears...anchor the transport ships and frigates as close as can be to the land ; that he should reconnoitre and observe it as quick as possible, and lose no time... | |
 | James Pagan - Glasgow (Scotland) - 1856 - 594 pages
...notwithstanding what has happened; one may always pick up something useful from amongst the mosl fatal errors. I have found out that an admiral should endeavour to...anchor the transport ships and frigates as close as can be to the land ; that he should reconnoitre and observe it as quick as possible, and lose no time... | |
 | James Pagan - Glasgow (Scotland) - 1856 - 594 pages
...notwithstanding what has happened; one may always pick up something useful from amongst the most fatal errors. I have found out that an admiral should endeavour to...port immediately after he appears before it; that ho should anchor the transport ships and frigates as close as ean be to the land; that ho should reconnoitre... | |
 | Montagu Burrows - Admirals - 1883 - 588 pages
...afterwards, wrote a caustic criticism of the conduct of the expedition to his friend, he remarked : — I have found out that an admiral should endeavour to...after he appears before it ; that he should anchor the transports and frigates as close as he can to the land, that he should reconnoitre and observe it as... | |
 | George Armand Furse - Great Britain - 1897 - 404 pages
...notwithstanding what has happened. One may pick up something useful from among the most fatal errors. I have found out that an admiral should endeavour to...transport ships and frigates as close as he can to land ; that he should reconnoitre and observe it as quickly as possible, and Kvse no time in getting... | |
 | William Wood - History - 1904 - 408 pages
...notwithstanding what has happened ; one may always pick up something useful from amongst the most fatal errors. I have found out that an Admiral should endeavour to...anchor the transport ships and frigates as close as can be to the land ; that he should reconnoitre and observe it as quick as possible; and lose no time... | |
 | Julian Stafford Corbett - Anglo-French War, 1755-1763 - 1907 - 516 pages
...friend that we know how deeply they had scored his mind. " I have found out," so his criticism began, " that an admiral should endeavour to run into an enemy's...after he appears before it ; that he should anchor the transports and frigates as close as he can to the land ; that he should reconnoitre and observe it... | |
 | Julian Stafford Corbett - Anglo-French War, 1755-1763 - 1907 - 512 pages
...unnecessary delay. " I have found out," he wrote in rehearsing to a friend the lessons of the expedition, " that an admiral should endeavour to run into an enemy's port immediately after he appears before it." We might well believe that Wolfe's criticism arose from a landsman's failure to appreciate the naval... | |
 | Julian Stafford Corbett - Anglo-French War, 1755-1763 - 1907 - 512 pages
...unnecessary delay. " I have found out," he wrote in rehearsing to a friend the lessons of the expedition, " that an admiral should endeavour to run into an enemy's port immediately after he appears before '757 it." We might well believe that Wolfe's criticism arose from a landsman's failure to appreciate... | |
 | 1910 - 1166 pages
...into the Isle of Orleans— The Brig fell down the north Channel. 460 THS NINETEENTH OENTURY March I have found out that an admiral should endeavour to...after he appears before it ; that he should anchor the transports and frigates as close as he can to the land ; that he should reconnoitre and observe it... | |
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I went, notwithstanding what has happened; one may always pick up something useful from amongst the most fatal errors. T have found out that an Admiral should endeavour to run into an enemy's port immediately after he appears before it; that he should... 
