 | Archibald Duncan - 1806 - 380 páginas
...weather, and other circumstances which must occur, without such a loss of time that the opportunity would probably be lost of bringing the enemy to battle in...command), that the order of sailing is to be the order of the battle ; placing the fleet in two tines, of sixteen ships each, with au advanced squadron of eight... | |
 | James Harrison (biographer of Nelson.) - 1806 - 522 páginas
...weather, and other circumstances which must occur, without such a loss of time that the opportunity would probably be lost of bringing the enemy to battle in...business decisive ; I have, therefore, made up my rnind, to keep the fleet in that position of sailing, with the exception of the first and second in... | |
 | sir William Beatty - 1807 - 114 páginas
...weather, and other circumstances which must occur, without such a loss of time that the opportunity would probably be lost of bringing the Enemy to battle in...the order of sailing is to be the order of battle : pla'cingthe Fleet in two lines, of sixteen ships each with an advanced squadron of eight of the •... | |
 | William Freke Williams - 1854 - 818 páginas
...weather, and other circumstances which must occur, without such a loss of time that the opportunity would be lost of bringing the enemy to battle in such a...make the business decisive, I have, therefore, made ap my mind to keep the fleet in that position of sailing (with the exception of the first and second... | |
 | James Harman Ward - 1859 - 152 páginas
...probably be lost of bringing the enemy to battle in a manner to make the business decisive, I have made up my mind to keep the fleet in that position of sailing, that the order of sailing is to be the order of battle, placing the fleet in two lines, sixteen ships... | |
 | Sir Edward Cust - 1862 - 390 páginas
...other circumstances which may and must occur, without such a loss of time, that the opportunity would probably be lost of bringing the enemy to battle in such a manner as to make the business decisive, 1805.] NELSON'S MEMORABLE INSTRUCTIONS. 239 I have, therefore, made up my mind to keep the fleet in... | |
 | Onesime-Joachim Troude - 1868 - 570 páginas
...circumstances which mnch occur, without such a lost of time that the oppurtunity wovld probably he lost of bringing the enemy to battle in such a manner as to mako the business décisive. 1 have therefore made up tuy mind to keep the lire! in that position of... | |
 | 1874 - 614 páginas
...to lead his fleet to attack the enemy. His celebrated Memorandum, in which he indicated the method ' of bringing the enemy to battle in such ' a manner as to make the business decisive,' was written but twelve days before Trafalgar. On the morning of that day it struck his friend, Blackwood,... | |
 | William Clark Russell - 1891 - 298 páginas
...allotted to Collingwood in Nelson's memorable General Order, October 18th. The fleet is to be kept in that position of sailing (with the exception of...the order of sailing is to be the order of battle. If the enemy is seen to windward in line of battle, and the two lines and advanced squadron of British... | |
 | London (England). Naval exhibition - 1891 - 656 páginas
...weather, and other circumstances which must occur without such a loss of time that the opportunity would probably be lost of bringing the enemy to battle in such a manner as to make trie business decisive, &c., &c., &c." Lent by the Hon. JJ Carnegie. 2362 1806. —Rough Log of HM... | |
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THINKING it almost impossible to bring a Fleet of forty sail of the line into a line of battle in variable winds, thick weather, and other circumstances which must occur, without such a loss of time that the opportunity would probably be lost of bringing... 
