 I have therefore made up my mind to keep the fleet in that" position of sailing (with the exception of the first and second in command) that the order of sailing is to be the order of battle, placing the fleet in two lines of sixteen ships each, with...  The life of ... Horatio lord viscount Nelson - Seite 479von James Harrison (biographer of Nelson.) - 1806Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1863 - 634 Seiten
...enemy to battle in such a manner as to make the business decisive, I have therefore made up my mind to keep the fleet in that position of sailing (with...command), that the order of sailing is to be the order of battle; placing the fleet in two lines of sixteen ships each, with an advance squadron of eight of... | |
 | William Freke Williams - 1864 - 786 Seiten
...enemy to battle in such a manner as to make the business decisive, I have, therefore, made up my mind to keep the fleet in that position of sailing (with...command), that the order of sailing is to be the order of battle, placing the fleet in two lines, sixteen ships each, with an advanced squadron of eight of the... | |
 | J Bradshawe Walker - 1864 - 328 Seiten
...enemy to battle in such a manner as to make the business decisive, I have, therefore, made up my mind to keep the fleet in that position of sailing (with...command) that the order of sailing is to be the order of battle ; placing the fleet in two lines of sixteen ships each, with an advanced squadron of eight of... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 650 Seiten
...enemy would soon come out, Nelson sent to lord Collingwood his plan of the battle. It was to advance in two lines of sixteen ships each, with an advanced squadron of eight of the fastest-sailing two-decked ships. They were thus to break the enemy's line in three places at once.... | |
 | Charles Duke Yonge - 1866 - 552 Seiten
...enemy to battle in such a manner as to make the business decisive, I have therefore made up my mind to keep the fleet in that position of sailing (with...command) that the order of sailing is to be the order of battle, placing the fleet in two lines of sixteen ships each, with an advanced squadron of eight of... | |
 | Onesime-Joachim Troude - 1868 - 570 Seiten
...therefore made up tuy mind to keep the lire! in that position of sailing, with the exception of the lir-t and second in command, that the order of sailing is to be the order of battle, placing the fleet in two lines, 16 ships each, with an advanced squadron of eight of the fastest... | |
 | George Lathom Browne - 1891 - 576 Seiten
...enemy to battle in such a manner as to make the business decisive, I have, therefore, made up my mind to keep the fleet in that position of sailing (with...command) that the order of sailing is to be the order of battle, placing the fleet in two lines of sixteen ships each, with an advanced squadron of eight of... | |
 | William Clark Russell - 1891 - 298 Seiten
...allotted to Collingwood in Nelson's memorable General Order, October 18th. The fleet is to be kept in that position of sailing (with the exception of...command) that the order of sailing is to be the order of battle. If the enemy is seen to windward in line of battle, and the two lines and advanced squadron... | |
 | John Knox Laughton - 1895 - 264 Seiten
...sailing. The order of sailing was to be the order of battle ; and this order of sailing was prescribed as in two lines of sixteen ships each, with an advanced squadron of eight of the fastest two-deckers, ready to " make a line of twenty-four sail on whichever line he might direct." He then... | |
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - 1897 - 518 Seiten
...order. mi. Powera of ttecond in The Attack from to Leeward. The General . Idea, under all Condition*. in that position of sailing (with the exception of...Command) that the Order of Sailing is to be the Order of Battle, placing the Fleet in two Lines of sixteen Ships each, with an Advanced Squadron of eight of... | |
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