| John Knox Laughton - 1894 - 466 páginas
...fired from a rest or crock. The word 'crock ' is still in use, in the sense of 'a little stool.' 1 ' The shot continued so thick together that it might...shot on land than a fight with great shot on sea.' This is Sir George Carey's recount of this action, in his letter to the Earl of Sussex, of July 25.... | |
| Julian Stafford Corbett - 1899 - 506 páginas
...of our men hurt ' — a statement to bo taken with reserve, when he also says that for five hours ' the shot continued so thick together that it might...with small shot on land, than a fight with great shot at sea.' Vanegas with official consistency again puts the Spanish loss at fifty killed and seventy... | |
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