| Horatio Nelson Nelson (Viscount), Matthew Henry Barker - 1836 - 500 pages
...ship, so as to prevent the enemy from knowing whether I should pass to leeward or to windward of him. In that situation I would make the signal to engage...the van, passing very close : they being on a wind, and you, going large, could cut their line when you please. The van ships of the enemy would, by the... | |
| Horatio Nelson (1st visct.) - 1846 - 560 pages
...Ship, so ns to prevent the Enemy from knowing whether 1 should pass to leeward or windward of him. In that situation, I would make the signal to engage...the Van, passing very close; they being on a wind, and you going large, could cut their Line when you plense. The Van-Ships of the Enemy would, by the... | |
| Charles Duke Yonge - 1866 - 552 pages
...ship, so as to prevent the enemy from knowing whether I should pass to leeward or windward of him. In that situation, I would make the signal to engage...the enemy to leeward, and to cut through their fleet ubout the sixth ship from the van, passing very close; they being on a wind, and you going large, could... | |
| George Lathom Browne - Admirals - 1891 - 576 pages
...enemy from knowing whether I should pass to leeward or windward of them. In that situation I would engage the enemy to leeward, and to cut through their...the van, passing very close ; they being on a wind, and you going large could cut their line when you please. The van ships of the enemy would by the time... | |
| Alfred Thayer Mahan - Biography & Autobiography - 1897 - 540 pages
...Ship, so as to prevent the Enemy from knowing whether I should pass to leeward or windward of him. In that situation, I would make the signal to engage...the Van, passing very close ; they being on a wind, and you going large, could cut their Line when you please. The Van-Ships of the Enemy would, by the... | |
| Alfred Thayer Mahan - 1897 - 518 pages
...Ship, so as to prevent the Enemy from knowing whether I should pass to leeward or windward of him. In that situation, I would make the signal to engage...the Van, passing very close ; they being on a wind, and you going large, could cut their Line when you please. The Van-Ships of the Enemy would, by the... | |
| Alfred Thayer Mahan - Admirals - 1897 - 524 pages
...from knowing whether I should pass to leeward or windward of him. In that situation, I would nutke the signal to engage the Enemy to leeward, and to...the Van, passing very close ; they being on a wind, and you going large, could cut their Line when you please. The Van-Ships of the Enemy would, by the... | |
| Alfred Thayer Mahan - Admirals - 1899 - 906 pages
...prevent the Enemy from knowing whether I should pass to leeward or windward of him. In that sitnation, I would make the signal to engage the Enemy to leeward,...the Van, passing very close; they being on a wind, and you going large, could cut their Line when you please. The Van-Ships of the Enemy would, by the... | |
| Alfred Thayer Mahan - Admirals - 1899 - 918 pages
...Enemy from knowing whether I should pass to leeward or windward of him. In that situation, I wonld make the signal to engage the Enemy to leeward, and to cut through their Fleet abont the sixth Ship from the Van, passing very close ; they being on a wind, and yon going large,... | |
| Sir William Laird Clowes, Sir Clements Robert Markham, Alfred Thayer Mahan, Herbert Wrigley Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, Leonard George Carr Laughton - Great Britain - 1900 - 712 pages
...ship, so as to prevent the enemy from knowing whether I should pass to leeward or to windward of him. In that situation, I would make the signal to engage...going large, could cut their line when you please. The van ships of the enemy would, by the time our rear came abreast of the van ship, be severely cut up,... | |
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