 Though the different ships were very differently circumstanced, and bore unequal shares in the action, all have the merit of having done their utmost. After I had driven the San Nicholas on board the Josef, and left them, on their fire ceasing, to be...  A History of England in the Lives of Englishmen - Page 102by George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853Full view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 626 pages
...two first-rates, and four 90-gun ships, and of our fifteen, ships, one was a little 64, the Diadem. I am sure you will admire the fortitude and magnanimity...twenty-two sail of their line were still within gun-shot.' — p. 32. Nor was Nelson backward in acknowledging the services and gallant conduct of his friend... | |
 | 1828 - 598 pages
...somebody behind, they fell on board my good friend the commodore ; and as they had not surrendered, lie, in his own active person, at the head of his ship's...twenty-two sail of their line were still within gun-shot.' — p. 32. Nor was Nelson backward in acknowledging the services and gallant conduct of his friend... | |
 | Cuthbert Collingwood Baron Collingwood, George Lewis Newnham Collingwood - 1828 - 394 pages
...Spaniards from deck to deck at the point of their swords. They at last both surrendered; and the Gommodore, on the quarter-deck of a Spanish first-rate, San Josef,...twenty-two sail of their line were still within gun-shot. We have had the Spanish fleet off here to look at us since we came in ; but I dare say they would rather... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 608 pages
...the commodore, on the quarter-deck of a Spanish first-rate, San Josef, received the submission an<J the swords of the officers of the two ships, while...twenty-two sail of their line were still within gun-shot.' — p. 32. Nor was Nelson backward in .acknowledging the services and gallant conduct of his friend... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 608 pages
...first-rate, San Josef, received the submission and the swords of the officers of the two ships, while one cf his sailors bundled them up with as much composure...twenty-two sail of their line were still within gun-shot.' — p. 32. Nor was Nelson backward in acknowledging the services and gallant conduct of his friend... | |
 | Cuthbert Collingwood Baron Collingwood - 1829 - 434 pages
...stanccd, and bore unequal shares in the action, all have the merit of having done their utmost. After 1 had driven the San Nicholas on board the Josef, and...twenty-two sail of their line were still within gun-shot. We have had the Spanish fleet off here to look at us since we came in ; but I dare say they would rather... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 258 pages
...two first-rates, and four 90 gun-ships, and of our fifteen ships, one was a little 64, the Diadem. I am sure you will admire the fortitude and magnanimity...of Brest, — an irksome piece of service, of which he appears to have been heartily tired. The truce of 1802 afforded him an opportunity of visiting his... | |
 | 1836 - 884 pages
...coolness, put them under his arm ; " bundling them up," in the lively expression of Collingwood, " with as much composure as he would have made a faggot,...twenty-two sail of their line were still within gun-shot." One of his sailors came up, and, with an Englishman's feeling, took him by the hand, saying, he might... | |
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 528 pages
...Josef, and left them, on their fire ceasing, to be taken possession of by somebody behind, they loll on board my good friend the commodore; and as they...of Brest, — an irksome piece of service, of which he appears to have been heartily tired. The truce of 1802 afforded him an opportunity of visiting his... | |
 | Cuthbert Collingwood Baron Collingwood, George Lewes Newnham Collingwood - 1837 - 420 pages
...confidence in his fleet, that he thought no force too great for them ? Though the different ships were differently circumstanced, and bore unequal shares...twenty-two sail of their line were still within gunshot. We have had the Spanish fleet off here to look at us since we came in; but I dare say they would rather... | |
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