Memoirs and Letters of Capt. Sir William Hoste, Volum 2Bentley, 1833 |
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... hope is not correct . I should be sorry to lose so good and so able a chief ; nor do I know any one who is better calcu- lated for the general good of the service and this important station , than Lord Collingwood . I suppose I shall be ...
... hope is not correct . I should be sorry to lose so good and so able a chief ; nor do I know any one who is better calcu- lated for the general good of the service and this important station , than Lord Collingwood . I suppose I shall be ...
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... hope the Corsican will work them pretty tight for their cowardly tricks . What can have become of my letters , I am sure I am quite at a loss to determine . That I have written by every conveyance , I hope I need not say . That I should ...
... hope the Corsican will work them pretty tight for their cowardly tricks . What can have become of my letters , I am sure I am quite at a loss to determine . That I have written by every conveyance , I hope I need not say . That I should ...
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... hope all is well again . Dear little Edward left me for Spartan a few weeks ago ; he will have such advantages in being with Brenton , in learn- ing French , Italian , drawing , & c . & c . that I should not have been doing him justice ...
... hope all is well again . Dear little Edward left me for Spartan a few weeks ago ; he will have such advantages in being with Brenton , in learn- ing French , Italian , drawing , & c . & c . that I should not have been doing him justice ...
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... hope you approve of my sending him with Brenton ; be assured he will receive better instruction there than I could give him . I miss him much ; he is a good brave boy as ever stepped , and , be assured , will do you credit wherever he ...
... hope you approve of my sending him with Brenton ; be assured he will receive better instruction there than I could give him . I miss him much ; he is a good brave boy as ever stepped , and , be assured , will do you credit wherever he ...
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... hope you have had as pleasant a Christmas as we have had ; though so severely cold that water froze in the cask , and a hard gale of wind , we were taking prizes , and as happy as princes . Can there be a greater proof of the ...
... hope you have had as pleasant a Christmas as we have had ; though so severely cold that water froze in the cask , and a hard gale of wind , we were taking prizes , and as happy as princes . Can there be a greater proof of the ...
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Memoirs and Letters of Capt. Sir William Hoste, Volum 2 Sir William Hoste (1st Bart.) Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1833 |
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Active Admiral Freemantle Adriatic Amphion anchor Ancona arrived assistance attack Austrian Bacchante batteries Bellona blockade boats Bocca di Cattaro Bocchese brave brig British Captain Hoste captured cargo carronade Castel Nuovo Cattaro Cerberus coast of Italy command commodore convoy Corfu Corona crew Croats cruise Dalmatia dear father DIXON HOSTE duty eighteen-pounders enemy enemy's England exertions fire Fiume flag Flora force fortress French friends frigate gallant garrison going gun-boats guns H. M. S. Bacchante happy harbour honour hope Hoste's island JOURNAL CONTINUED landed larboard letter licences Lieutenant Lissa Lord Majesty's ships Malta marines merchant Montenegrins morning mother mountain night officers orders peace port possession prizes Ragusa received regret sailed sent shore shot Sir William Hoste soon squadron station surrender taken tion took town trabacculos trade Trieste troops Venice vessels Volage whilst WILLIAM HOSTE wind wish wounded xebec
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Side 272 - How sleep the brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there!
Side 267 - He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Side 26 - Englishmen; both officers and men were personally engaged hand to hand, and out of the number killed by the enemy in this encounter eight were bayonet wounds, which will convince you, Sir, of the nature of the attack. " A struggle of this kind could not last long, and the French troops endeavoured in great confusion to regain their former position; they were closely pursued, and charged in their turn, which decided the business, and the whole detachment of the enemy, consisting of a lieutenant, serjeant,...
Side 319 - ... attempt, and rendered so totally unmanageable, that in the act of wearing he went on shore on the rocks of Lissa, in the greatest possible confusion. The line was then wore to renew the action, the Amphion not half a...
Side 318 - AM the action commenced by our firing on the headmost ships as they came within range. The intention of the enemy appeared to be to break our line in two places ; the starboard division, led by the French commodore, bearing upon the...
Side 32 - Venerable, off the coast of Holland, the i2th of October, by log (nth1 three PM Camperdown ESE eight mile. Wind N. by E. Sir, I have the pleasure to acquaint you, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that...
Side 321 - Gordon and myself considered her us our own : the delay of getting a boat on board the Bellona, and the anxious pursuit of Captain Gordon after the beaten enemy, enabled him to steal off, till too late for our shattered ships to come up with him, his rigging and sails apparently not much injured ; but by the laws of war I shall ever maintain he belongs to us.
Side 27 - In this latter business a lieutenant and twenty-two men of the 5th Regiment of Light Infantry (all French troops) were made prisoners. The same intrepidity which had insured success before, was equally conspicuous on this second occasion. About seven in the evening I had the satisfaction of seeing the whole detachment coming off to the squadron, which I had anchored about four miles from the town directly the wind allowed, and everything was secured by eight o'clock. A service of this nature had...
Side 321 - ... enemy, enabled him to steal off, till too late for our shattered ships to come up with him, his rigging and sails apparently not much injured ; but by the laws of war I shall ever maintain he belongs to us. The enemy's squadron, as per inclosed return, was commanded by Mons.