The Nation and the Navy: A History of Naval Life and PolicyCresset Press, 1954 - 287 sider |
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Side 109
... arms . The next year Admiral Cornish was free to capture Manila in the Philippines , but as the news reached home after the preliminaries of the peace treaty had been signed the place was restored to Spain without anything being given ...
... arms . The next year Admiral Cornish was free to capture Manila in the Philippines , but as the news reached home after the preliminaries of the peace treaty had been signed the place was restored to Spain without anything being given ...
Side 164
... arm on a Sunday morning . The story goes that when one of the mutineers from the Channel Fleet put his head through a lower - deck port on his arrival at Lisbon to hail a fellow seaman with the words , ' I say , there , what have you ...
... arm on a Sunday morning . The story goes that when one of the mutineers from the Channel Fleet put his head through a lower - deck port on his arrival at Lisbon to hail a fellow seaman with the words , ' I say , there , what have you ...
Side 249
... arms have rendered vulnerable . That was one of the lessons taught by this campaign , for never was a failure to co - ordinate all the arms of war to have more disastrous consequences than on this occasion . From the outset the War ...
... arms have rendered vulnerable . That was one of the lessons taught by this campaign , for never was a failure to co - ordinate all the arms of war to have more disastrous consequences than on this occasion . From the outset the War ...
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