Unfit as my ship was, I had nothing left for the honour of our country but to sail, which I did in two hours afterwards. It was necessary to show them what an English man-of-war would do. Nelson's Lady Hamilton - Página 116por Esther Meynell - 1907 - 376 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Horatio Nelson Nelson (Viscount), Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1844 - 586 páginas
...guns, but none of them were sent. As the Prime Minister sent me the information, unfit as my Ship was, I had nothing left for the honour of our Country but...to show them what an English Man-of-war would do. Fortune has not crowned my endeavours with success. The French have either got into Leghorn, or are... | |
| Horatio Nelson Nelson (Viscount), Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1844 - 590 páginas
...guns, but none of them wenBent. As the Prime Minister sent me the information, unfit as my Ship was, I had nothing left for the honour of our Country but...to show them what an English Man-of-war would do. Fortune has not crowned my endeavours with success. The French have either got into Leghorn, or are... | |
| John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1888 - 366 páginas
...Prime Minister sent me the information,' he wrote to his clerical brother, ' unfit as my ship was, I had nothing left for the honour of our country but to sail, which I did in two hours afterwards.' To pass to a subject less interesting, but no less needful to be considered by those who would have... | |
| Alfred Thayer Mahan - 1897 - 564 páginas
...the information to Nelson, he felt bound to go, though but four days in port. " Unfit as my ship was, I had nothing left for the honour of our country but...to show them what an English man-of-war would do." The expected enemy was not found, and, after stretching along the coast in a vain search, the " Agamemnon... | |
| Esther Meynell - 1912 - 198 páginas
...Sardinia. The decorations were instantly stripped from the Agamemnon. "Unfit as my ship was," wrote Nelson, "I had nothing left for the honour of our country...in two hours afterwards. It was necessary to show themwhatan English man-of-warwould do." And so in his famous ship Nelson went stretching down the coast,... | |
| Edgar Vincent - 2003 - 654 páginas
...or Spanish ship was ordered after them, he immediately sent his guests on shore and got under way. 'I had nothing left for the honour of our Country...to show them what an English Man-of-War would do.' Nelson had made his mark on Naples. Among those who made a mark on him were the Hamiltons, not only... | |
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