 | 1843 - 332 pages
...guns were silent ; for, as she carried no flag, there was no means of instantly ascertaining the fact. From this ship, which he had thus twice spared, he...part of the deck where he was standing, struck the epaulette on his left shoulder, about a quarter before one, just in the heat of the action. He fell... | |
 | Philip Alexander Prince - 1843 - 790 pages
...guns were silent ; for, as she carried no flag, there was no means of instantly ascertaining the fact. From this ship, which he had thus twice spared, he...received his death. A ball, fired from her mizen-top, struck the epaulet on his left shoulder, and he fell upor his face. Faint as he was, he ob served,... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1853 - 288 pages
...guns were silent ; for, as she carried no flag, there was no means of instantly ascertaining the fact. From this ship, which he had thus twice spared, he...mizentop, which, in the then situation of the two IS SHOT. 25$ vessels, was not more than fifteen yards from that part of the deck where he was standing,... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...guns were silent; for, as she carried no flag, there was no means of instantly ascertaining the fact. From this ship, which he had thus twice spared, he...part of the deck where he was standing, struck the epaulette on his left shoulder, about a quarter after one, just in the heat of action. He fell upon... | |
 | Advanced reading book - 1860 - 458 pages
...guns were silent ; for, as she carried no flag, there was no means of instantly ascertaining the fact. From this ship, which he had thus twice spared, he...part of the deck where he was standing, struck the epaulette on his left shoulder, about a quarter after one, just in the heat of action. He fell upon... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 pages
...guns were silent; for, as she carried no flag, there was no means of instantly ascertaining the fact. From this ship, which he had thus twice spared, he...part of the deck where he was standing, struck the epaulette on his left shoulder, about a quarter after one, just in the heat of action. He fell upon... | |
 | John Francis Waller - 1857 - 230 pages
...fire, ran on board the Redonbtable. " A hall fired from her mizen top, which in the then sitnation of the two vessels, was not more than fifteen yards...from that part of the deck where he was standing, strnck the epanlette on his left shonlder abont a qnarter after one, jnst NEL XER in the heat of action.... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...guns were silent ; for, as she carried no flag, there was no means of instantly ascertaining the fact. From this ship, which he had thus twice spared, he...part of the deck where he was standing, struck the epaulette on his left shoulder, about a quarter after one, just in the heat of action. He fell upon... | |
 | Charles Kegan Paul - 1864 - 232 pages
...guns were silent; for, as she carried no flag, there was no means of instantly ascertaining the fact. From this ship, which he had thus twice spared, he...part of the deck where he was standing — struck the epaulette on his left shoulder, about a quarter after one, just in the heat of action. He fell upon... | |
 | Penny readings - 1866 - 304 pages
...guns were silent ; for, as she carried no flag, there was no means of instantly ascertaining the fact. From this ship, which he had thus twice spared, he...part of the deck where he was standing, struck the epaulette on his left shoulder, about a quarter after one, just in the heat of action. He fell upon... | |
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A ball fired from her mizen-top, which, in the then situation of the two vessels, was not more than fifteen yards from that part of the deck where he was standing, struck the epaulette on his left shoulder, about a quarter after one, just in the heat... 
