| Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange - 1886 - 398 pages
...minutes later, when the supporting ships sailed through the French line in brave form, he exclaimed, ' Now, my dear friend, I am at the service of your Greeks...please, for the enemy is in confusion and our victory secure.' Writing to Lady Rodney at this time, he says: — ' Comte de Grasse, poor man, now begins... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - 1909 - 440 pages
...ship having led through the French line in a gallant style, turning with a smile of joy to sir Charles Douglas, he cried out — " Now my dear friend, I...untimely lost to his country, whose candour scorned to rob his admiral of one leaf of his laurels, and who, disclaiming all share in the manoeuvre, nay confessing... | |
| 1827 - 452 pages
...ship having led through the French line in a gallant style, turning with a smile of joy to Sir'Charles Douglas, he cried out — ' Now my dear friend, I...untimely lost to his country, whose candour scorned to rob his admiral of one leaf of his laurels, and who, disclaiming all share in the manoeuvre, nay, confessing... | |
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