 | James Harrison (biographer of Nelson.) - 1806 - 522 Seiten
...10, 180.5. " THINKING it almost impossible to bring a fleet of forty sail of the line into battle, in variable winds, thick weather, and other circumstances...business decisive ; I have, therefore, made up my rnind, to keep the fleet in that position of sailing, with the exception of the first and second in... | |
 | Edward Pelham Brenton - 1824 - 588 Seiten
...(General Orders.) Thinking it almost impossible to bring a fleet of forty sail of the line into a battle, in variable winds, thick weather, and other circumstances which must occur, without such ;\ loss of time that the opportunity would probably be lost of bringing the enemy to battle iu such... | |
 | William Freke Williams - 1854 - 818 Seiten
...18th, 1805. " Thinking it almost impossible to bring a fleet of forty sail-of-the-line into a battle in variable winds, thick weather, and other circumstances...without such a loss of time that the opportunity would be lost of bringing the enemy to battle in such a manner as to make the business decisive, I have,... | |
 | James Harman Ward - 1859 - 152 Seiten
...battle in variable winds, thick weather, and other adverse circumstances likely to occur, without such loss of time that the opportunity would probably be lost of bringing the enemy to battle in a manner to make the business decisive, I have made up my mind to keep the fleet in that position of... | |
 | Sir Edward Cust - 1862 - 390 Seiten
...line into a line of battle in variable winds, thick weather, and other circumstances which may and must occur, without such a loss of time, that the...in such a manner as to make the business decisive, 1805.] NELSON'S MEMORABLE INSTRUCTIONS. 239 I have, therefore, made up my mind to keep the fleet in... | |
 | William Freke Williams - 1864 - 786 Seiten
...18th, 1805. "Thinking it almost impossible to bring a fleet of forty sail-of-the-line into a battle in variable winds, thick weather, and other circumstances...without such a loss of time that the opportunity would be lost of bringing the enemy to battle in such a manner as to make the business decisive, I have,... | |
 | Charles Duke Yonge - 1866 - 552 Seiten
...forty sail of the line into a line of battle in variable winds, thick weather, and other cireumstances which must occur, without such a loss of time that the opportunity wouM probably be lost of bringing the enemy to battle in such a manner as to make the business decisive,... | |
 | Onesime-Joachim Troude - 1868 - 570 Seiten
...circumstances which mnch occur, without such a lost of time that the oppurtunity wovld probably he lost of bringing the enemy to battle in such a manner as to mako the business décisive. 1 have therefore made up tuy mind to keep the lire! in that position of... | |
 | 1874 - 614 Seiten
...to lead his fleet to attack the enemy. His celebrated Memorandum, in which he indicated the method ' of bringing the enemy to battle in such ' a manner as to make the business decisive,' was written but twelve days before Trafalgar. On the morning of that day it struck his friend, Blackwood,... | |
 | London (England). Naval exhibition - 1891 - 656 Seiten
...Oct. "Thinking it almost impossible to bring a fleet of Forty Sail of the Line into a line of battle in variable winds, thick weather, and other circumstances...bringing the enemy to battle in such a manner as to make trie business decisive, &c., &c., &c." Lent by the Hon. JJ Carnegie. 2362 1806. —Rough Log of HM... | |
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THINKING it almost impossible to bring a fleet of forty sail of the line into battle, in variable winds, thick weather, and other circumstances which must occur, without such a loss of time that the opportunity would probably be lost of bringing the enemy... 
