I inclose to your Lordship a statement of their number, and when I add also an account of the loss His Majesty's ships have sustained, I cannot help expressing my satisfaction that we have suffered so slightly; as, had any of their stone shot, some of... Annals of the Wars of the Nineteenth Century - Side 1av Sir Edward Cust - 1862Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
| 1808 - 1142 sider
...which was most r.tpidly effected ; as in less" than four hours the whole of them had exploded, except a small corvette, and a gunboat, which it was thought proper to preserve. I inclose to your lordship a statement of their number ; and when I add also an account of the loss... | |
| 1828 - 740 sider
...Sidney was then to destroy them ; and in less than four hours the whole of them had exploded, except a small corvette and a gun-boat (which it was thought proper to preserve), viz. one ship of 64 guns, four frigates, three corvettes, a brig, and two gun-boats. One of the English... | |
| Englishmen - 1836 - 258 sider
...which was most rapidly effected ; as in less than four hours the whole of them had exploded, except a small corvette and a gun-boat, which it was thought proper to preserve. I enclose to your lordship a statement of their number ; and when I add also an account of the loss... | |
| Edward Howard - 1839 - 440 sider
...which was most rapidly effected ; as in less than four hours the whole of them had exploded, except a small corvette, and a gun-boat, which it was thought proper to preserve. I enclose to your lordship a statement of their number ; and when I add also an account of the loss... | |
| George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 534 sider
...which was most rapidly effected ; as in less than four hours the whole of them had exploded, except a small corvette and a gun-boat, which it was thought proper to preserve. I enclose to your lordship a statement of their number ; and when I add also an account of the loss... | |
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