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England's battles by sea and land, from the commencement of the French ... - Page 176
by William Freke Williams - 1854
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A Northern Summer: Or, Travels Round the Baltic, Through Denmark, Sweden ...

Sir John Carr - Baltic Sea - 1805 - 526 pages
...and delicately intimated to the Prince that he ought to make him an admiral, to which the Prince very happily replied, " If, my Lord, I were to make all...should have no captains or lieutenants in my service." This heroic youth had volunteered the command of a praam, which is a sort of raft, carrying six small...
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A Northern Summer: Or, Travels Round the Baltic, Through Denmark, Sweden ...

Sir John Carr - Baltic Sea - 1805 - 320 pages
...and delicately intimated to the Prince that he ought to make him an admiral; to which the Prince very happily replied, " If, my Lord, I were to make all...should have no captains or lieutenants in my service." This heroic youth had volunteered the command of a praam, which is a sort of raft, carrying six small...
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The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners: With Strictures ..., Volume 20

1805 - 456 pages
...delicately intimated to the prince, that he ought to make him an admiral, to which the prince very happily replied ' If, my lord. I were to make all...should have no captains or lieutenants in my service.' This heroic youth had volunteered the command of it praam, which is a sort of • raft, carrying six...
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The Naval Chronicle, Volume 14

James Stanier Clarke, Stephen Jones, John Jones - Europe - 1805 - 584 pages
...delicately intimated to the Prince that he ought to make him an Admiral ; to which the Prince very happily replied, " If, my Lord, I were to make all my brave Oificers Admirals, I should have no Captains or Lieutenants in my service." This heroic youth had volunteered...
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The life of ... Horatio lord viscount Nelson, Volume 2

James Harrison (biographer of Nelson.) - 1806 - 522 pages
...intimated, that he ought to be made an admiral. The crown prince, with peculiar felicity, instantly replied — " If, my lord, I were to make all my brave...have no captains or lieutenants " in my service." This heroic stripling had volunteered the command of a sort of raft, called a praam, carrying twenty-four...
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th], Volume 2, Part 1

1806 - 502 pages
...delicately intimated to the Prince that he ought to make him an admiral ; to whicb the Prince very happily replied, " If, my Lord, I were to make all...admirals, I should have no captains or lieutenants in lay service." '• pp. 47 — 5O. Whose heart is not harrowed up by this display of the tragical effects...
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A Northern Summer: Or, Travels Round the Baltic, Through Denmark, Sweden ...

Sir John Carr - Denmark - 1806 - 342 pages
...to the Prince that he ought to make him an admiral, to which the Prince very happily replied, " Ifr my Lord, I were to make all my brave officers admirals,...should have no captains or lieutenants in my service." This heroic youth had volunteered the command of ;». praam, which is a sort of raft, carrying six...
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Antijacobin Review, True Churchman's Magazine: And Protestant ..., Volume 22

1806 - 540 pages
...and delicately intirnaled o the Prince that he ought to make him an admiral, lo which the Prince vey happily replied, ' If my Lord, I were to make all my brave officers adminK, I fliould have no captains or IK utenants in my fervice.' This heroic yoith. had volunteered...
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The British Plutarch [by T. Mortimer].

Thomas Mortimer - 1810 - 532 pages
...prince, that he ought to make him an admiral; to which the prince replied, " If, my lord, I were to mate all my brave officers admirals, I should have no captains or lieutenants in my service." Th youth*, however, received a medallion, and was appointed to the command of one of ttte royal yatchts....
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The Life of Nelson, Volume 2

Robert Southey - 1813 - 306 pages
...told the prince, tliat he ought to be made an admiral. The prince replied : " If, my tf lord, I am to make all my brave officers " admirals, I should...have no captains or " lieutenants in my service." The Sympathy of the Danes for their countrymen who had bled in their defence, was not weakened by distance...
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