The Nation and the Navy: A History of Naval Life and PolicyCresset Press, 1954 - 287 sider |
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Side 163
... Mediterranean and retire to Lisbon . The end of 1796 , indeed , marked the lowest point of the war for the British . The Mediterranean was closed to our shipping ; all our allies except Portugal were defeated ; Ireland lay open to ...
... Mediterranean and retire to Lisbon . The end of 1796 , indeed , marked the lowest point of the war for the British . The Mediterranean was closed to our shipping ; all our allies except Portugal were defeated ; Ireland lay open to ...
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... Mediterranean fleet had been . The same complaints of ' gimcrack and frippery ' , ' the old women in the shape of young men whom I am burthened with ' , petty officers failing to salute the quarterdeck , idle and incompetent captains ...
... Mediterranean fleet had been . The same complaints of ' gimcrack and frippery ' , ' the old women in the shape of young men whom I am burthened with ' , petty officers failing to salute the quarterdeck , idle and incompetent captains ...
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... Mediterranean . ' It is impossible ' , wrote a French admiral shortly before Codrington's arrival in the Levant , ' for a vessel sailing alone to go ten leagues in those seas without being attacked . ' Frigates acting under Codrington's ...
... Mediterranean . ' It is impossible ' , wrote a French admiral shortly before Codrington's arrival in the Levant , ' for a vessel sailing alone to go ten leagues in those seas without being attacked . ' Frigates acting under Codrington's ...
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