| 1843 - 320 páginas
...ation about them. How sorrowful this makes me i but I cannot help myself." The next day he an chored at Gibraltar ; and on the 20th, says he, " I •went on shore for the first time since June 16, 1803 and from* having my foot out of the Victory, two years, wanting ten days." Here he communicated... | |
| George Lillie Craik, Charles MacFarlane - 1844 - 928 páginas
...Bay ; and on the 20th, as he says in his diary, " 1 went on shore for the first time since June the, 16th, 1803, and from having my foot out of the ' Victory' two years wanting ten days." But even now he had short time for shore-rest : on the 22nd he stood across to Tetuan to water ; on... | |
| Horatio Nelson (1st visct.) - 1846 - 560 páginas
...M'Arthnr, vol. ii. p. 415.] 20th July, 1905. I went on shore for the first time since the 16th of June, 1803; and from having my foot out of the Victory, two years, wanting ten days. NELSON AND BRONTE. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD BARHAM, FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY. [Autograph, in... | |
| 1847 - 202 páginas
...the chase to a conclusion. " July 20, Gibraltar. I went on shore for the first time since June 10th, 1803, and from having my foot out of the Victory, two years, wanting ten days." The 8000 miles of chase were concluded, and his enemy was still safe, and his pursuit fruitless. At... | |
| Thomas Joseph Pettigrew - 1849 - 710 páginas
...his private diary Lord Nelson records : " I went on shore for the first time since the 16th of June, 1803; and from having my foot out of the Victory, two years, wanting ten days." On this occasion he was accompanied by his Chaplain, and paid visits to the Governor, Sir Richard Bickerton,... | |
| Thomas Joseph Pettigrew - 1849 - 708 páginas
...his private diary Lord Nelson records: " I went on shore for the first time since the 16th of June, 1803; and from having my foot out of the Victory, two years, wanting ten days." On this occasion he was accompanied by his Chaplain, and paid visits to the Governor, Sir Richard Bickerton,... | |
| Joseph ALLEN (of Greenwich Hospital.) - 1853 - 290 páginas
...the 20th, Nelson remarked in his diary, " I went on shore for the first time since the 16th of June, 1803, and from having my foot out of the Victory two years wanting ten days." On the 21st, the ships were busily employed getting ready for sea, and Lord Nelson sent home his despatches... | |
| 1854 - 504 páginas
...July he came in sight of Cape St. Vincent, and steered for Gibraltar where he arrived on the 19th; " and on the 20th," says he, " I went on shore for the first time since June 16, 1803; not having had my foot out of the Victory, for two years, wanting ten days." On the 15th... | |
| William James - 1859 - 548 páginas
..." on the 20th," says Lord Nelson in his diary, " I went on shore for the first time since June 16, 1803, and from having my foot out of the Victory, two years wanting 10 days." On the 22nd the fleet weighed and stood across to Tetuan to water, anchoring at 8 PM in Mazari... | |
| Charles Knight - 1861 - 654 páginas
...Gibraltar. On the 20th, Nelson writes in his Diary, " I went on shore for the first time since June 16, 1803, and, from having my foot out of the Victory, two years wanting ten days." "What duty had occupied the great admiral during this period ? The duty of long watching and waiting... | |
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