The World of Man: Prose Passages, Chiefly from the Works of the Great Historians, Classical and EnglishThe University Press, 1933 - 313 páginas |
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... Victory , and across her bows , fired single guns at her , to ascertain whether she was yet within their range . As soon as Nelson perceived that their shot passed over him , he desired Blackwood and Captain Prowse , of the Sirius , to ...
... Victory , and across her bows , fired single guns at her , to ascertain whether she was yet within their range . As soon as Nelson perceived that their shot passed over him , he desired Blackwood and Captain Prowse , of the Sirius , to ...
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... Victory had not yet returned a single gun . Fifty of her men had been by this time killed or wounded , and her main - topmast , with all her studding sails and her booms , shot away . Nelson declared that in all his battles he had seen ...
... Victory had not yet returned a single gun . Fifty of her men had been by this time killed or wounded , and her main - topmast , with all her studding sails and her booms , shot away . Nelson declared that in all his battles he had seen ...
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... Victory from both sides , her larboard guns playing upon the Bucentaure and the huge Santissima Trinidad . It had been part of Nelson's prayer , that the British fleet might be distinguished by humanity in the victory which he expected ...
... Victory from both sides , her larboard guns playing upon the Bucentaure and the huge Santissima Trinidad . It had been part of Nelson's prayer , that the British fleet might be distinguished by humanity in the victory which he expected ...
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Praise of history | 3 |
Accident in history | 9 |
Sir Thomas Browne | 18 |
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