The Campaign of Trafalgar, Band 2Longmans, Green, 1919 |
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The Campaign of Trafalgar — 1805., Band 2 Sir Julian Stafford Corbett, LLM. Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2012 |
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action Admiral Admiralty Advance Squadron Agamemnon ahead Allemand astern August Barham Papers Belleisle Bellerophon Blackwood blockade Brest British fleet Bucentaure Cadiz Calder campaign Cape Captain Castlereagh centre chase Coalition Codrington Collingwood columns Combined Fleet command Commander-in-chief concentration convoy Cornwallis course Craig cruisers cruising Decrès defence Desbrière despatch division Dumanoir effect enemy enemy's line engaging Euryalus Ferrol Finisterre flag force France French frigates Ganteaume Gibraltar Gravina's In-letters instructions intention July larboard leading ship leeward letter line of battle line of bearing line-ahead Lord Lord Nelson Majesty Malta Mediterranean Memorandum movement Naiad Naples Napoleon naval Nelson Neptune Nicolas Office order of battle order of sailing Pitt Pitt's port position rear Royal Sove Royal Sovereign Russian says sent Sept Sicily Signal Book Spartiate starboard station steering Stirling Strachan Straits tack tactical Talleyrand Téméraire three-deckers tion Trafalgar troops Ushant Victory Vigo Villeneuve Villeneuve's wind windward wrote
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Seite 390 - May the great God, whom I worship, grant to my country, and for the benefit of Europe in general, a great and glorious victory, and may no misconduct in any one tarnish it; and may humanity after victory be the predominant feature in the British fleet!
Seite 477 - The whole impression of the British Fleet must be to overpower from two or three Ships a-head of their Commanderin-Chief, supposed to be in the Centre, to the Rear of their Fleet. I will suppose twenty Sail of the Enemy's Line to be untouched, it must be some time before they could perform a manoeuvre to bring their force compact to attack any part of the British Fleet engaged, or to succour their own Ships, which indeed would be impossible without mixing with the Ships engaged*.
Seite 477 - Something must be left to chance, nothing is sure in a sea fight beyond all others, shot will carry away the mast and yards of friends as well as foes, but I look with confidence to a victory before the van of the Enemy could succour their Rear...
Seite 477 - Sail of the Line or to pursue them should they endeavour to make off. If the Van of the Enemy tacks, the captured Ships must run to Leeward of the British Fleet, if the Enemy wears, the British must place themselves between the Enemy and the captured and disabled British Ships and should the enemy close I have no fear as to the result.
Seite 477 - The divisions of the British fleet will be brought nearly within gunshot of the enemy's centre. The signal will most probably then be made for the lee line to bear up together, to set all their sails, even steering sails, in order to get as quickly as possible to the enemy's line, and to cut through, beginning from the twelfth ship from the enemy's rear.
Seite 477 - The Second in Command will, after my intentions are made known to him, have the entire direction of his Line to make the attack upon the Enemy, and to follow up the blow until they are captured or destroyed.
Seite 314 - All that I had thought a charlatan style had vanished, and he talked of the state of this country and of the aspect and probabilities of affairs on the Continent with a good sense, and a knowledge of subjects both at home and abroad, that surprised me equally and more agreeably than the first part of our interview had done ; in fact, he talked like an officer and a statesman.
Seite 477 - 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 which must occur, without such a loss of time that the opportunity would probably be lost of bringing the Enemy to Battle in such a manner as to make the business decisive, I have therefore made up my mind...
Seite 381 - What do you think of it?' Such a question I felt required consideration. I paused. Seeing it, he said: 'But I'll tell you what I think of it. I think it will surprise and confound the Enemy. They won't know what I am about. It will bring forward a pell-mell Battle, and that is what I want.
Seite 477 - The second in command will, in all possible things, direct the movements of his line, by keeping them as compact as the nature of the circumstances will admit. Captains are to look to their particular line, as their rallying point; but, in case signals cannot be seen or clearly understood, no captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of an enemy.