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Page xi
... port broadsides , as I have shown they must have done when they first opened fire , and steering direct for a gap in the allied line between the Bucentaure and the Redoutable . No other ships in Nelson's column are shown as having ...
... port broadsides , as I have shown they must have done when they first opened fire , and steering direct for a gap in the allied line between the Bucentaure and the Redoutable . No other ships in Nelson's column are shown as having ...
Page xxi
... port , and landing of 200,000 men I shall not attempt to estimate , nor shall I ask any soldier to estimate them . It is purely a sailor's question , and how a sailor would answer it may be seen in a masterly discussion of what ...
... port , and landing of 200,000 men I shall not attempt to estimate , nor shall I ask any soldier to estimate them . It is purely a sailor's question , and how a sailor would answer it may be seen in a masterly discussion of what ...
Page xxx
... ports " —that is , his ports in the Channel- " and the Admiralty have taken such precau- tions , by having such a respectable force under my orders , that I venture to express a well - grounded hope that the enemy would be annihilated ...
... ports " —that is , his ports in the Channel- " and the Admiralty have taken such precau- tions , by having such a respectable force under my orders , that I venture to express a well - grounded hope that the enemy would be annihilated ...
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... port or the starboard tack according as the wind is blowing on the port or the starboard side of the ship . So long as the wind remained unchanged , therefore , there was always a moving area bounded by an angle of 12 points , or 135 ...
... port or the starboard tack according as the wind is blowing on the port or the starboard side of the ship . So long as the wind remained unchanged , therefore , there was always a moving area bounded by an angle of 12 points , or 135 ...
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... port tacks respectively : COURSE , STARBOARD TACK . WIND . COURSE , PORT TACK . W.N.W. N.W. by W. N.W. N.W. by N. N.N.W. N. by W. N. N. by E. N.N.E. N.E. by N. N.E. N.E. by E. E.N.E. E. by N. E. E. by S. E.S.E. S.E. by E. S.E. S.E. by ...
... port tacks respectively : COURSE , STARBOARD TACK . WIND . COURSE , PORT TACK . W.N.W. N.W. by W. N.W. N.W. by N. N.N.W. N. by W. N. N. by E. N.N.E. N.E. by N. N.E. N.E. by E. E.N.E. E. by N. E. E. by S. E.S.E. S.E. by E. S.E. S.E. by ...
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action Admiral Rozhdestvensky Admiralty advanced squadron Alliance American armoured cruisers Army assailant astern attack bear belligerent British fleet Bucentaure Camperdown Captain Mahan capture career Channel coast Collingwood command course crew cruisers cruising D'Orvilliers defence diagram dispositions divisions Dmitri Donskoi Duncan Dutch effect Empire enemy enemy's line engaged England evidence fight fire flag fought France frigates frontier genius guerre de course Home Fleet honour Hotham invader invasion Jones's Joseph Yorke Lady Hamilton land Landais leading ship lee line leeward letter line of battle Lord manœuvres maritime commerce Mediterranean Memorandum ment military Napoleon naval force naval power naval warfare Navy Nelson never officers Paul Jones perhaps port position possible purpose rear Richard risk Russian sail sailors seaman Serapis shores signal Sir Joseph Yorke soldiers starboard strategic superior tactical Texel tion torpedo craft Trafalgar vessels victory Villeneuve Vincent waters whole wind wrote
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Page 221 - that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.
Page 3 - Nobly, nobly Cape Saint Vincent to the North-West died away ; Sunset ran, one glorious blood-red, reeking into Cadiz Bay ; Bluish 'mid the burning water, full in face Trafalgar lay ; In the dimmest North-East distance dawned Gibraltar grand and gray; " Here and here did England help me : how can I help England...
Page xxix - Those far distant, storm-beaten ships, upon which the Grand Army never looked, stood between it and the dominion of the world.
Page 103 - Lord," he said to the Duke of Devonshire, " I am sure that I can save this country, and that nobody else can.
Page 24 - The second in command will in all possible things direct the movements of his line by keeping them as compact as the nature of the circumstances will admit. Captains are to look to their particular line as their rallying point. But, in case signals can neither be seen or perfectly understood, no captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of an enemy.
Page 156 - He either fears his fate too much or his desert is small. who dares not put it to the touch and win or lose it all...
Page 120 - The most triumphant death is that of a martyr ; the most awful, that of the martyred patriot ; the most splendid, that of the hero in the hour of victory ; and if the chariot and the horses of fire had been vouchsafed for Nelson's translation, he could scarcely have departed in a brighter blaze of glory.
Page 178 - It is by no means enough that an officer of the navy should be a capable mariner. He must be that, of course, but also a great deal more. He should be as well a gentleman of liberal education, refined manners, punctilious courtesy, and the nicest sense of personal honor.
Page 23 - The second hi command will, after my intentions are made known to him, have the entire direction of his line, to make the attack upon the enemy, and to follow up the blow until they are captured or destroyed.
Page 137 - My object is partly gained if we meet them. We shall find them not less than eighteen, I rather think twenty sail of the line, and therefore do not be surprised if I should not fall on them immediately. We wont part without a battle. I think they will be glad to...