The life of George lord AnsonJohn Murray, 1839 - 484 sider |
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... proper person for reviewing it , on examination it was resolved that the whole should be written entirely by Mr. Robins ; what Mr. Walter had done , being , as Mr. Robins informed me , almost all taken verbatim from the Journals , and ...
... proper person for reviewing it , on examination it was resolved that the whole should be written entirely by Mr. Robins ; what Mr. Walter had done , being , as Mr. Robins informed me , almost all taken verbatim from the Journals , and ...
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... proper for the intended ser- vice , and solicited strenuously to have them changed ; but he was told that persons , who were supposed to be better judges of soldiers than he or Mr. Anson could be , thought them the fittest men that ...
... proper for the intended ser- vice , and solicited strenuously to have them changed ; but he was told that persons , who were supposed to be better judges of soldiers than he or Mr. Anson could be , thought them the fittest men that ...
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... proper to declare war against the King of Spain , for the several injuries and indignities Walpole's Letters to Sir Horace Mann , vol . i . p . 87 . offered to our crown and people , which are more 1740. ] 29 ADVANCEMENT IN THE NAVY .
... proper to declare war against the King of Spain , for the several injuries and indignities Walpole's Letters to Sir Horace Mann , vol . i . p . 87 . offered to our crown and people , which are more 1740. ] 29 ADVANCEMENT IN THE NAVY .
Side 30
... proper , where you are again to supply your ships with water and any other necessaries you may want that can be had there . And when you have so done , you are to proceed with our ships under your command into the South Sea , either ...
... proper , where you are again to supply your ships with water and any other necessaries you may want that can be had there . And when you have so done , you are to proceed with our ships under your command into the South Sea , either ...
Side 31
... proper to direct that an additional number of small arms be put on board the ships under your command , to be used , as occasion may require , by the crews of the said ships , or otherwise , as you shall find most for our service . And ...
... proper to direct that an additional number of small arms be put on board the ships under your command , to be used , as occasion may require , by the crews of the said ships , or otherwise , as you shall find most for our service . And ...
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The Life of George, Lord Anson: Admiral of the Fleet, Vice-admiral of Great ... Sir John Barrow Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1839 |
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able Admiral Byng afterwards Anson's Collection appears appointed army arrived attack Board of Admiralty Boscawen Brest Brett Cape Captain captured carried Centurion character Charles Wager coast command commission Commodore conduct Conflans considered convoy council court-martial crew death desire Duke of Bedford Duke of Newcastle employed enemy enemy's engaged England expedition favour fire flag flag-officers force France frigates gallant George give guns Hardwicke honour hundred Indies island killed King King's Lady land Legge letter lieutenant Lord Anson Lord Sandwich Lordship Majesty Majesty's ships marines Minorca naval never occasion officers opinion peace Piercy Brett Pitt ports present proceeded proper rank Rear-Admiral received Royal sail sail-of-the-line Saunders says scurvy seamen sent shore Sir Charles Sir Edward Hawke Sir John sloop soon Spain Spaniards Spanish squadron station taken thought tion troops Vice-Admiral voyage Wager Walpole whole wounded
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Side 105 - Sir, he was a scoundrel and a coward : a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality ; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman, to draw the trigger after his death...
Side 210 - An Act to explain and amend an act made in the twenty-second year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, intituled, ' An Act for amending, explaining, and reducing into one Act of Parliament the laws relating to the government of His Majesty's ships, vessels, and forces by sea...
Side 11 - A circumstance was brought to light in the examinations that took place before the committee of the House of Commons, appointed to inquire into the Spanish abuses, which created a deep feeling of indignation in the country.
Side 252 - By a strange coincidence of circumstances, it happened that there was a total change of administration between his condemnation and his death ; so that one party presided at his trial, and another at his execution : there can be no stronger proof that he was not a political...
Side 328 - When I consider the season of the year, the hard gales on the day of action, a flying enemy, the shortness of the day, and the coast they were on, I can boldly affirm that all that could possibly be done has been done.
Side 467 - We came to few places where either the art of man or nature did not afford some sort of refreshment or other, either of the animal or vegetable kind. It was my first care to procure what could be met with of either by every means in my power, and to oblige our people to make use thereof, both by my example and authority ; but the benefits arising from such refreshments soon became so obvious that I had little occasion to employ either the one or the other influence on the men.
Side 272 - Esq., Admiral of the Blue, Fell a Martyr to political Persecution, March 14. in the Year 1757 : When Bravery and Loyalty Were insufficient Securities For the Life and Honour of A Naval Officer.
Side 258 - May last, he did withdraw or keep back, and did not do his utmost to take, seize, and destroy, the ships of the French King, which it was his duty to have engaged, and to assist such of his Majesty's ships as were engaged in fight with the French ships, which it was his duty to have assisted ; and for that he did not do his utmost to relieve St. Philip's Castle, in his Majesty's island of Minorca, then besieged by the forces of the French King...
Side 68 - ... and full manned, yet, if his own people behaved with their accustomed spirit, he was certain he should prove too hard for them both, and that one of them at least could not fail of becoming his prize. He...
Side 340 - The horror of the night, the precipice scaled by Wolfe, the empire he with a handful of men added to England, and the glorious catastrophe of contentedly terminating life where his fame began Ancient story may be ransacked, and ostentatious philosophy thrown into the account, before an episode can be found to rank with Wolfe's.