Illustrated Naval and Military Magazine: A Monthly Journal Devoted to All Subjects Connected with Her Majesty's Land and Sea Forces, Volume 4

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W.H. Allen & Company, 1890
 

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Page 381 - What a navy ! — what sacrifices for nothing ! — what an admiral ! All hope is gone. That Villeneuve, instead of entering the Channel, has taken refuge in Ferrol ! It is all over : he will be blockaded there. Daru, sit down and write.
Page 578 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel by divine command With rising tempests shakes a guilty land, Such as of late o'er pale Britannia...
Page 500 - Sir, — For your atrocities at Bona on defenceless Christians, and your unbecoming disregard to the demands I made yesterday, in the name of the Prince Regent of England, the fleet under my orders has given you a signal chastisement, by the total destruction of your navy, storehouses, and arsenal, with half your batteries. As England does not war for the destruction of cities, I am unwilling...
Page 582 - It was deemed inexpedient to attack him, and in view of the condition of our troops, who had been marching and fighting almost incessantly for seven days under the most trying circumstances, it was determined to withdraw, in order to afford them the repose of which they stood so much in need.
Page 320 - Captain HR H. the Duke of Edinburgh, KG, in 1867 -1868. By the REV. JOHN MILKER, BA, Chaplain ; and OSWALD W. BRIERLY. Illustrated by a Photograph of HRH the Duke of Edinburgh ; and by Chromo-Lithographs and Graphotypes from Sketches taken on the spot by 0. W.
Page 500 - As England does not war for the destruction of cities, I am unwilling to visit your personal cruelties upon the inoffensive inhabitants of the country, and therefore offer you the same terms of peace which I conveyed to you yesterday in my sovereign's name; without the acceptance of these terms, you can have no peace with England. If you receive this offer as you ought, you will fire three guns; and I shall consider...
Page 541 - Holland, about fourscore miles, and over many great rivers, with their cannon and carriage, Zutphen was taken. Again, when the Spanish army had overcome this wearisome march, and were now far from home, the prince Maurice, making countenance to sail up the Rhine, changed his course in the night; and sailing down the stream, he was set down before Hulst in Brabant, ere the Spaniards had knowledge what was become of him. So this town he also took before the Spanish army could return. Lastly, the Spanish...
Page 567 - ... the weather and state of the roads, may be such as to delay the direct movement from Washington, with its unsatisfactory results and great risks — far beyond the time required to complete the second plan. In the first case we can fix no definite time for an advance. The roads have gone from bad to worse— nothing like their present condition has ever been known here before; they are impassable at present, we are entirely at the mercy of the weather.
Page 41 - Night was now come, and being on a part of the coast, among islands and shoals, of which we were totally ignorant without a pilot, as was the greatest part of the squadron, and blowing hard on a lee shore, I made the signal to anchor, and came to in 15 fathom of water, the island of Dumet bearing E.
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