Decision at Trafalgar: The Story of the Greatest British Naval Battle of the Age of NelsonThe story of the greatest British naval battle of the Age of Nelson. |
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... fight and we'll conquer again and again . We ne'er see our foes but we wish them to stay ; They never see us but they wish us away : If they run , why we follow , and run them on shore , For if they won't fight us , we cannot do more ...
... fight and we'll conquer again and again . We ne'er see our foes but we wish them to stay ; They never see us but they wish us away : If they run , why we follow , and run them on shore , For if they won't fight us , we cannot do more ...
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... fighting together in great fleets . Pope , the creator of the well- known fictional characters Nicholas Ramage and Ned Yorke , recog- nized the power of these archetypal events . He also knew that the most effective rendering of the ...
... fighting together in great fleets . Pope , the creator of the well- known fictional characters Nicholas Ramage and Ned Yorke , recog- nized the power of these archetypal events . He also knew that the most effective rendering of the ...
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... then serving as flagship of the triumphant but battered British fleet , fighting for its very existence with its dearly won prizes in gale - driven seas off Cape Trafalgar . Vice - Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood , who commands II.
... then serving as flagship of the triumphant but battered British fleet , fighting for its very existence with its dearly won prizes in gale - driven seas off Cape Trafalgar . Vice - Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood , who commands II.
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... Fighting Sail . Another of Pope's strengths as a historian - already evident in this , his first history dealing with the age of sail - is his sense of the contemporary . Pope , who some two decades later would write Life in Nelson's ...
... Fighting Sail . Another of Pope's strengths as a historian - already evident in this , his first history dealing with the age of sail - is his sense of the contemporary . Pope , who some two decades later would write Life in Nelson's ...
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... Fighting Sail might similarly be portrayed ? There was , as Lord St. Vincent once remarked , " only one Nelson . " It is a shame that Pope never tried his hand at biography . His take on Nelson as a whole might well have been ...
... Fighting Sail might similarly be portrayed ? There was , as Lord St. Vincent once remarked , " only one Nelson . " It is a shame that Pope never tried his hand at biography . His take on Nelson as a whole might well have been ...
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