| John Watkins - 1832 - 800 pages
...respect. His friend Nelson, writing home to Captain Locker on the 25th of February, 1783, says : " My situation in Lord Hood's fleet must be in the highest...flattering to any young man ; he treats me as if I were his son, and will, I am convinced, give me any thing I can ask of him. Nor is my situation with... | |
| Horatio Nelson Nelson (Viscount), Matthew Henry Barker - 1836 - 500 pages
...England at the Peace. the following passage in a letter from Nelson to his friend Captain Locker : " My situation in Lord Hood's fleet must be in the highest...flattering to any young man : he treats me as if I were his son, and will, I am convinced, give me any thing I can ask of him." The return of peace, however,... | |
| Robert Huish - 1837 - 806 pages
...writing home to one of his friends, thus speaks of Prince William whilst he was at Jamaica : — " My situation in Lord Hood's fleet must be in the highest...flattering to any young man ; he treats me as if I were his son, and will, I am convinced, give me any tiling I can ask of him. Nor is my situation with... | |
| George Newenham Wright, John Watkins - 1837 - 972 pages
...respect. His friend Nelson, writing home to Captain Locker on the 25th of February, 1783, says : " My situation in Lord Hood's fleet must be in the highest...flattering to any young man ; he treats me as if I were his son, and will, I am convinced;, give me any thing I can ask of him. Nor is my situation with... | |
| George Newenham Wright, John Watkins - 1857 - 462 pages
...respect, His friend Nelson, writing home to Captain Locker on the 25th of February, 1783, says : " My situation in Lord Hood's fleet must be in the highest...flattering to any young man ; he treats me as if I were his son, and will, I am convinced, give me any thing I can ask of him. Nor is my situation with... | |
| George Newenham Wright, John Watkins - 1837 - 954 pages
...respect. His friend Nelson, writing home to Captain Locker on the 25th of February, 1783, says : " My situation in Lord Hood's fleet must be in the highest...flattering to any young man ; he treats me as if I were his son, and will, I am convinced, give me any thing I can ask of him. Nor is my situation with... | |
| Thomas Joseph Pettigrew - 1849 - 572 pages
...has promised me his friendship." In another letter dated, Off Cape Tiberoon, Feb. 25, 1783, he says, "My situation in Lord Hood's fleet must be in the...am convinced, give me anything I can ask of him." Under this command, he sailed to the West Indies in November, and remained there until the peace with... | |
| Joseph ALLEN (of Greenwich Hospital.) - 1853 - 290 pages
...Captain Locker he thus mentions his position, and gives an opinion respecting the young prince : — " My situation in Lord Hood's fleet must be in the highest degree flattering to a young man. He [Lord Hood] treats me as if I was his son, and will, I am convinced, give me anything... | |
| Percy Fitzgerald - 1884 - 428 pages
...favourable opinion • if UuL ^itllaut young captain, imparted to a friend. The now in the Barjieur. " My situation in Lord Hood's fleet must be in the highest...flattering to any young man ; he treats me as if I were his son, and will, I am convinced, give me anything I can ask of him. Nor is my situation with... | |
| George Lathom Browne - 1891 - 576 pages
...Boreas frigate, of 28 guns, and ordered to Leeward Island Station." " OFF CAPE TIBEROON, "Feb. 25, 1783" My situation in Lord Hood's Fleet must be in the highest degree most flattering to a young man. He treats me as if I was his son, and will, I am convinced, give me... | |
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