 | 1780 - 740 páginas
...ahead at two cables length diftance. At forty-five minutes after fix I gave notice, by public fignal, that my intention was to attack the enemy's rear with my whole force ; which fignal was anfwered by every iliip in the fleet. At feven am perceiving the fleet too much... | |
 | 1872 - 610 páginas
...in the West Indies. He seemed to have Clerk's suggestion in his mind, as he says in his despatch, ' at ' forty-five minutes after six in the morning,...the enemy's rear ' with my whole force.' This was ' the first instance in which ' a British admiral had ventured to deviate from the old prac' tice.'... | |
 | 1805 - 540 páginas
...remarkable pafTagc : " At forty-five minutes after fix in the morning, I gave notice, by public fignal, that my intention was to attack the enemy's rear with...altogether new, either from Admiral Rodney, or any of his predeceflbrs ; and as it was the firft inftance in which a Britifh Admiral had ventured to deviate... | |
 | Thomas Southey - 1827 - 568 páginas
...made the signal for the line ahead, at two cables' length distance. At forty-five minutes after six, I gave notice, by public signal, that my intention...was to attack the enemy's rear with my whole force; which signal was answered by every ship in the fleet. " At seven AM perceiving the fleet too much extended,... | |
 | 1830 - 562 páginas
...giving an account of the battle, is the following passage : — ' At forty-five minutes after six, I gave notice, by public signal, that my intention...attack the enemy's rear with my whole force.' This is precisely what is recommended in Mr. Clerk's system ; and therefore it was natural enough for him... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1830 - 574 páginas
...account of the battle, is the following passage : — ' At forty-five minutes after six, I gaveuotice, by public signal, that my intention was to attack the enemy's rear with my whole force.' This is precisely what is recommended in Mr. Clerk's system ; and therefore it was natural enough for him... | |
 | Godfrey Basil Mundy - 1830 - 508 páginas
...the line a-head, at two cables' length ' distance. At forty-six minutes after six, ' I gave notice that my intention was to ' attack the enemy's rear with my whole ' force, which signal was answered by every ' ship in the fleet. At seven, AM, per' ceiving the fleet too much... | |
 | Godfrey Basil Mundy - 1836 - 316 páginas
...for the line a-head, at two cables' length distance. At forty-six minutes after six, I gave notice that my intention was to attack the enemy's rear with my whole force, which signal was answered by every ship in the fleet. At seven, AM perceiving the fleet too much extended,... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1882 - 408 páginas
...signal for the line ahead at two cables' length distance. At forty-six minutes after six I gave notice that my intention was to attack the enemy's rear with my whole force, which signal was answered by every ship in the fleet. At seven am, perceiving the fleet was too much... | |
 | 1780 - 826 páginas
...a-head at two cables length diihnce. At forty-five minutes afiei Cx I gave notice by public fignal, that my intention was to attack the enemy's rear with my whole force ; which fignal was anfwered by every (hip in the fleet. At feven am perceiving the fleet too much extended,... | |
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At forty-five minutes after six, I gave notice, by public signal, that my intention was to attack the enemy's rear with my whole force; which signal was answered by every ship in the fleet. 