The Life of George, Lord Anson: Admiral of the Fleet, Vice-admiral of Great Britain, and First Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty, Previous To, and During, the Seven Years' WarJ. Murray, 1839 - 484 sider |
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Side vii
... thought most pro- bable , both these gentlemen did not participate in it . Dr. Wilson says , " Of this voyage the public had for some time been in expectation of seeing an account composed under his Lordship's own inspection . For this ...
... thought most pro- bable , both these gentlemen did not participate in it . Dr. Wilson says , " Of this voyage the public had for some time been in expectation of seeing an account composed under his Lordship's own inspection . For this ...
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... thoughts were in finding himself in the hands of such barbarians , he replied , " I recommended my soul to God , and my cause to my country . " This representation made by Jenkins , the sight of the ear , which he produced , and his ...
... thoughts were in finding himself in the hands of such barbarians , he replied , " I recommended my soul to God , and my cause to my country . " This representation made by Jenkins , the sight of the ear , which he produced , and his ...
Side 29
... thought his country in danger he would not go away ; " and Walpole adds , with one of his usual sneers , " It is unlucky for him not to have lived when such insensibility would have been a Roman virtue . " * The following instructions ...
... thought his country in danger he would not go away ; " and Walpole adds , with one of his usual sneers , " It is unlucky for him not to have lived when such insensibility would have been a Roman virtue . " * The following instructions ...
Side 30
... thought fit to direct that you , taking under your command our ships hereafter mentioned , viz .: the Centurion , the Argyle , the Severn , the Pearl , the Wa- ger , and the Tryal sloop , should proceed with them accord- ing to the ...
... thought fit to direct that you , taking under your command our ships hereafter mentioned , viz .: the Centurion , the Argyle , the Severn , the Pearl , the Wa- ger , and the Tryal sloop , should proceed with them accord- ing to the ...
Side 31
... thought proper to direct that an additional number of small arms be put on board the ships under your command , to be used , as occasion may require , by the crews of the said ships , or otherwise , as you shall find most for our ...
... thought proper to direct that an additional number of small arms be put on board the ships under your command , to be used , as occasion may require , by the crews of the said ships , or otherwise , as you shall find most for our ...
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able Admiral Admiral Byng afterwards Anson's Collection appears appointed arrived attack Board of Admiralty Boscawen Brest British Byng Cape Captain captured carried Centurion character Charles Wager coast command commission Commodore Conflans council court-martial crew death desire Duke of Bedford Duke of Newcastle EDITION enemy enemy's engaged England expedition favour Fcap fire flag flag-officers fleet force France French frigates gallant George give guns Hardwicke honour hundred Indies island killed King Lady land Legge letter lieutenant LIST OF BOOKS Lord Anson Lord Sandwich Lordship Majesty marines Minorca MURRAY'S LIST naval navy never occasion officers opinion peace Piercy Brett Pitt ports Post 8vo proceeded Rear-Admiral received Royal sail sail-of-the-line says scurvy seamen sent shore Sir Charles Sir Edward Hawke Sir John sloop soon Spain Spaniards Spanish squadron taken tion troops Vice-Admiral vols voyage Walpole whole wounded
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Side 212 - An Act to explain and amend an act made in the twenty-second year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, intituled, ' An Act for amending, explaining, and reducing into one Act of Parliament the laws relating to the government of His Majesty's ships, vessels, and forces by sea...
Side 11 - A circumstance was brought to light in the examinations that took place before the committee of the House of Commons, appointed to inquire into the Spanish abuses, which created a deep feeling of indignation in the country.
Side 262 - ... sake, as well as in justice to the prisoner, we pray your lordships, in the most earnest manner, to recommend him to his majesty's clemency.
Side 38 - This disease is likewise usually attended with a strange dejection of the spirits, and with shiverings, tremblings, and a disposition to be seized with the most dreadful terrors on the slightest accident.
Side 254 - By a strange coincidence of circumstances, it happened that there was a total change of administration between his condemnation and his death ; so that one party presided at his trial, and another at his execution : there can be no stronger proof that he was not a political...
Side 330 - When I consider the season of the year, the hard gales on the day of action, a flying enemy, the shortness of the day, and the coast they were on, I can boldly affirm that all that could possibly be done has been done.
Side 469 - We came to few places where either the art of man or nature did not afford some sort of refreshment or other, either of the animal or vegetable kind. It was my first care to procure what could be met with of either by every means in my power, and to oblige our people to make use thereof, both by my example and authority ; but the benefits arising from such refreshments soon became so obvious that I had little occasion to employ either the one or the other influence on the men.
Side 105 - Sir, he was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging ' a blunderbuss against religion and morality; and a coward ' because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left ' half-a-crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger
Side 260 - May last, he did withdraw or keep back, and did not do his utmost to take, seize, and destroy, the ships of the French King, which it was his duty to have engaged, and to assist such of his Majesty's ships as were engaged in fight with the French ships, which it was his duty to have assisted ; and for that he did not do his utmost to relieve St. Philip's Castle, in his Majesty's island of Minorca, then besieged by the forces of the French King...
Side 68 - ... and full manned, yet, if his own people behaved with their accustomed spirit, he was certain he should prove too hard for them both, and that one of them at least could not fail of becoming his prize. He...