The Nation and the Navy: A History of Naval Life and PolicyCresset Press, 1954 - 287 sider |
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Side 82
... French courtiers preferred to fit out privateers to be fought by such fine seamen as Jean Bart , Dugay - Trouin , Duchesne , Forbin , etc. The consequence was , as a French naval historian has said , a fatal loss of prestige to the Navy ...
... French courtiers preferred to fit out privateers to be fought by such fine seamen as Jean Bart , Dugay - Trouin , Duchesne , Forbin , etc. The consequence was , as a French naval historian has said , a fatal loss of prestige to the Navy ...
Side 97
... French as they pressed for- ward to gain control of the headwaters of the Ohio . General Braddock's force which was sent to retrieve the situation was cut to pieces . Because of thick weather on the Newfoundland Banks , Admiral Boscawen ...
... French as they pressed for- ward to gain control of the headwaters of the Ohio . General Braddock's force which was sent to retrieve the situation was cut to pieces . Because of thick weather on the Newfoundland Banks , Admiral Boscawen ...
Side 128
... French . Suffren entertained him most hospitably until he handed him over to Hughes , to whom Hickey retailed the compliments which the former had paid him , as well as giving him a com- plete description of the state of the French ...
... French . Suffren entertained him most hospitably until he handed him over to Hughes , to whom Hickey retailed the compliments which the former had paid him , as well as giving him a com- plete description of the state of the French ...
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