 | 1834 - 562 pages
...northward. The Achil'.e had burnt to the water's edge, with the tricolored ensign still displayed, about a mile from us, and our tenders and boats were...she blew up with a tremendous explosion. A boat with Iks lieutenant of the Entreprenante shortly after came on board, on his return from the Victory, to... | |
 | 1834 - 560 pages
...the northward. The Achille had burnt to the water's edge, with the tricolored ensign still displayed, about a mile from us, and our tenders and boats were...brave fellows who had so gloriously defended her; but on'y two hundred and fifty were rescued, and she blew up with a tremendous explosion. A boat with th«... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1829 - 618 pages
...northward. The Achille had burnt to the water's edge, with the tri-coloured ensign still displayed, about a mile from us, and our tenders and boats were...gloriously defended her ; but only two hundred and ii'iv were rescued, and she blew up with a tremendous explosion. A boat with the lieutenant of the... | |
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - 1897 - 518 pages
...for Cadiz. The Achilla, with the tricoloured ensign still displayed, had burnt to the water's edge about a mile from us, and our tenders and boats were...rescued, and she blew up with a tremendous explosion." There, surrounded by the companions of his triumph, and by the trophies of his prowess, we leave our... | |
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - 1897 - 540 pages
...for Cadiz. The Achille, with the tricoloured ensign still displayed, had burnt to the water's edge about a mile from us, and our tenders and boats were...rescued, and she blew up with a tremendous explosion." There, surrounded by the companions of his triumph, and by the trophies of his prowess, we leave our... | |
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - 1897 - 524 pages
...ensign still displayed, had burnt to the water's edge about a mile from us, and our tenders and Ixmts were using every effort to save the brave fellows...rescued, and she blew up with a tremendous explosion." There, surrounded by the companions of his triumph, and by the trophies of his prowess, we leave our... | |
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - 1899 - 896 pages
...for Cadiz. The Achille, with the tricoloured ensign still displayed, had burnt to the water's edge about a mile from us, and our tenders and boats were...her; but only two hundred and fifty were rescued, aiid she blew up with a tremendous explosion." There, surrounded by the companious of his trinmph,... | |
 | Dudley Pope - 1999 - 384 pages
...sigh, but their errors sunk with them into the deep. . . . "A boat with a lieutenant from the cutter Entreprenante shortly after came on board, on his...announce the death of the immortal Nelson. The melancholy ridings spread through the ship in an instant and the paralyzing effect was wonderful. "Our Captain... | |
 | 1915 - 860 pages
...making for Cadiz. The Achille, with the tricolored ensign still displayed, had burnt to the waters edge about a mile from us, and our tenders and boats were...fellows who had so gloriously defended her; but only 250 were rescued, and she blew up with a tremendous explosion."4 That is the record of the last great... | |
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To the northward, the remnant of the combined fleets was making for Cadiz. The Achille, with the tricoloured ensign still displayed, had burnt to the water's edge about a mile from us, and our tenders and boats were using every effort to save the brave... 