Biographia Navalis: Or, Impartial Memoirs of the Lives and Characters of Officers of the Navy of Great Britain, from the Year 1660 to the Present Time; Drawn from the Most Authentic Sources, and Disposed in a Chronological Arrangement, Volume 1R. Faulder, 1794 |
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Biographia Navalis: Or, Impartial Memoirs of the Lives and ..., Volume 5 John Charnock No preview available - 2015 |
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Page 42 - Littleton's order, was sent to present his Majesty with the George found about the body of the said earl, which remained, at the time of its taking up, in every part unblemished, saving some impressions made by the fire upon his face and breast...
Page 60 - He was a man of wonderful parts in all kinds of learning, which he took more delight in than his title ; and having no great estate descended to him, he brought down his mind to his fortune, and lived very retired, but with more reputation than any fortune could The eari of have given him.
Page 362 - ... their coming down with that resolution, I cannot think it had any great effect upon them: and this I may affirm for a truth, not with any intention to value our own action, or to lessen the bravery of the enemy, that they were beaten by a number considerably less than theirs, the calmness and thickness of the weather giving very few of the Dutch or the blue the opportunity of engaging...
Page 210 - ... after, His miraculous and never enough to be acknowledged mercy, in putting a stop to it when we were in the last despair, and that all attempts for the quenching it, however industriously pursued, seemed insufficient.
Page 42 - Earl, which re" mained at the time of its taking up in every part unblemiflied, *' faring fome impreflions made by the fire upon his face and *' breaft. Upon which his Majefty, out of his princely regard «« to the great defervings of the faid Earl, and his un-exampled " performances in this laft adt of his life, hath refolved to have «* his body brought up to London, there at his charge to receive *' the rites of funeral, due to his great quality and merits.
Page 4 - In 1664, after retaining several important commands, in which the full exercise of discretionary power was conceded to him, he became successor to Sir John Lawson, as chief of the Mediterranean fleet. Cruising with a portion of this force, outside the Gut of Gibraltar, he had " the good fortune to fall in with the Dutch Smyrna fleet, consisting of forty sail, under convoy of four men-of-war."* According to the custom of the period, the Dutch, preparatory to battle, brought into their line the largest...
Page 351 - ... remarkably fine weather through the whole voyage, which lasted three weeks ; at the termination of which, by the assistance of pumping the whole time to discharge the water, which leaked in very fast, they arrived safe at Tangier. And perhaps there cannot be a more striking instance of innate firmness and magnanimity than in the behaviour of this nobleman during the voyage. For, though he was fully convinced of the hourly dangers, they were in, yet was his mind so calm and undisturbed, that he...
Page 351 - Tower; concerning which there is reason to wonder that it was not known to the historian of the Reformation. In the revolution he acquiesced, though he did not promote it, and when king James, in opposition to the advice of his friends, did quit the kingdom, he appears to have been one of the lords who wrote such letters to the fleet, the army, and all the considerable garrisons in England, as persuaded them to continue in proper order and subjection. To his humanity, direction, and spirited behaviour...
Page 362 - The number of the enemy's ships did not exceed fifty men-of-war, by the best information, from fifty-six to one hundred and four guns ; and though it must be confessed that our number was superior to theirs, which probably at first might startle them, yet by their coming down with that resolution I cannot think it had any great effect upon them. And this I may affirm for a truth, not with any intention to value our own action or to lessen the bravery of the enemy, that they were beaten by a number...
Page 400 - ... having obtained a commission in a Hussar regiment; he subsequently exchanged to the Carbineers, and in 1830 was appointed Major in the 5th Dragoon Guards. He became a colonel in the army in 1851 ; at the commencement of the Russian war, in 1854, was appointed to the command of a brigade of cavalry, and in the following year he was promoted to the command of the cavalry division. General Scarlett was among the foremost at Balaklava, and was wounded before Sebastopol, and for his services in the...