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Common terms and phrases
action admiral Admiralty allies anchored arrived attack Baltic battle Battle of Copenhagen Blackwood blockade Bonaparte Brest Britain British fleet Cadiz Captain Captain Mahan coast Collingwood combined fleets command commander-in-chief considered Copenhagen cruisers Danish dear defence Denmark Egypt enemy enemy's England feel Ferrol flag force France French fleet frigates Gibraltar give Hardy honour hope hostile island Keith Lady Hamilton Lady Nelson leave letter London Lord Minto Lord Nelson Lordship Malta Mediterranean ment Merton miles mind Minister Minorca Minto months Naples naval Navy neutral never officer orders Palermo Parker passed port position present received Russian sail Sardinia sent ships ships-of-the-line shore Sicily signal Sir Hyde Sir John Orde Spanish squadron station Straits tells thought tion told Toulon Trafalgar troops Troubridge vessels Victory Villeneuve Vincent West Indies wind windward wish words wrote Nelson
Popular passages
Page 373 - 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!
Page 392 - Doctor, I have not been a great sinner": and after a short pause, "Remember that I leave Lady Hamilton and my daughter Horatia as a legacy to my country.
Page 342 - Something must be left to chance; nothing is sure in a Sea Fight beyond all others. Shot will carry away the masts 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...
Page 327 - May the great God, whom I adore, enable me to fulfil the expectations of my 30 country ! and, if it is his good pleasure that I should return, my thanks will never cease being offered up to the throne of his mercy.
Page 340 - 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 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...
Page 384 - I am going fast; it will be all over with me soon. Come nearer to me. Let my dear Lady Hamilton have my hair, and all other things belonging to me.
Page 92 - Egypt ; he had won the day by disobeying his orders, and in so far as he had been successful, had convicted the commander-in-chief of an error in judgment. ' Well,' said he as he left the Elephant, ' I have fought contrary to orders, and I shall perhaps be hanged ! Never mind, let them...
Page 384 - I have called two or three of our fresh ships round, and have no doubt of giving them a drubbing." "I hope," said Nelson, "none of our ships have struck ? ' ' Hardy answered, '
Page 342 - Captains are to look to their particular line as their rallying point. But, in case signals can neither be seen or perfectly understood, no captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of an enemy.
Page 290 - I am fearful that you may think that the Superb does not go so fast as I could wish. However that may be, (for if we all went ten knots, I should not think it fast enough,) yet I would have you be assured that I know and feel that the Superb does all which is possible for a ship to accomplish; and I desire that you will not fret upon the occasion.
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Life of Nelson: The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain, Volume 2 Books for college libraries The Life of Nelson: The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain, Alfred Thayer Mahan |
| Author | Alfred Thayer Mahan |
| Publisher | Little, Brown, 1897 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 24 Aug 2007 |
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