 | James Stanier Clarke, Stephen Jones, John Jones - Europe - 1799 - 640 pages
...enemy presented the most formidable obstacles ; but the admiral viewed these with the eye of a seaman determined on attack; and it instantly struck his...mind, that where there was room for an enemy's ship ta swing, there was room for one of ours to anchor. No further signal was necessary than those which... | |
 | Archibald Duncan - 1805 - 480 pages
...enemy presented llie most formidable obstacles : but the admiral viewed these with the eye of a seaman determined on attack, and it instantly struck his...an enemy's ship to swing, there was room for one of our's to anchor. No further signal was necessary than those which had already been made. The action... | |
 | James Harrison (biographer of Nelson.) - 1806 - 430 pages
...presented the most formidable obstacles : but the admiral viewed them all with the eye of a seaman determined on attack ; and it instantly struck his...enemy's " ship to swing, there was room for one of our's to " anchor." No farther signals were necessary, than those which had already been made. The... | |
 | William Hamilton Drummond - Trafalgar, Battle of, 1805 - 1806 - 142 pages
...enemy presented the most formidable obstacles, but the Admiral viewed them with the eyes of a seaman, determined on attack, and it instantly struck his...and penetrating mind, that where there was room for one ship to swing, there was room for another of ours to anchor. No further signal was necessary than... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1813 - 276 pages
...that intuitive genius with which Nelson was endowed, displayed itself; and it instantly struck him, that where there was room for an enemy's ship to swing, there was room for one of ours to anchor. The plan which he intended to pursue, therefore, was to keep entirely on the outer side of the French... | |
 | Hewson Clarke - Europe - 1816 - 874 pages
...determined on attack, and it instantly struck his eager and penetrating miud, that " where there was no room for an enemy's ship to swing, there was room for one of ours to anchor.'' No farther signals were necessary than those which had already been made. The admiral's designs were fully... | |
 | Edward Baines - Europe - 1818 - 582 pages
...fleet, that intuitive genius with which he was endowed, dieplayed itself; and it instantly struck him that where there was room for an enemy's ship to swing, there was room for one of ours to anchor. Having explained to his captains his mode of attack, and given them the general instruction, first... | |
 | John James M'Gregor - 1819 - 482 pages
...in concert as if animated by one mind. The intuitive genins of the British hero quickly perceived, that where there was room for an enemy's ship to swing, there was room for one of his own to anchor. His plan therefore was, to station his ships as far as he was able, one on the outer-bow,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 pages
...that intuitive genius with which Nelson was endowed displayed itself; and it instantly struck him, that where there was room for an enemy's ship to swing there was room, for one of ours to anchor. The plan which he intended to pursue, therefore, 'was to keep entirely on the outer side of the French... | |
 | Englishman - 1824 - 420 pages
...that intuitive genius with which Nelson was endowed displayed itself; and it instantly struck him, that where there was room for an enemy's ship to swing, there was room for one of ours to anchor. The plan which he intended to pursue, therefore, was to keep entirely on the outer side of the French... | |
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First gain the victory," he said, " and then make the best use of it you can." The moment he perceived the position of the French, that intuitive genius with which Nelson was endowed, displayed itself; and it instantly struck him, that where there was... 
