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... arms from a want of knowledge of fortification.— Fortified places in England and abroad . · On the origin of fortifica- tion . The battering - ram . - Parapets - Embrasures - Square towers - Bastions - Horn - works Curtains.- - Modern ...
... arms from a want of knowledge of fortification.— Fortified places in England and abroad . · On the origin of fortifica- tion . The battering - ram . - Parapets - Embrasures - Square towers - Bastions - Horn - works Curtains.- - Modern ...
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... arm . tween Nelson's barge and the armed launch .-- Sykes the coxswain.- Nelson's thanksgiving for his recovery . His coolness in danger . Battle of Copenhagen . — Hewson the seaman . — Battle of the Nile . - Nelson's prayer before the ...
... arm . tween Nelson's barge and the armed launch .-- Sykes the coxswain.- Nelson's thanksgiving for his recovery . His coolness in danger . Battle of Copenhagen . — Hewson the seaman . — Battle of the Nile . - Nelson's prayer before the ...
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... arm , and an officer with epaulettes on his shoulder . You have seen , too , a jolly Jack - tar just come home from a cruise , rigged out in his holiday clothes , check shirt , blue jacket , and white trousers . You have read , perhaps ...
... arm , and an officer with epaulettes on his shoulder . You have seen , too , a jolly Jack - tar just come home from a cruise , rigged out in his holiday clothes , check shirt , blue jacket , and white trousers . You have read , perhaps ...
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... arms , clubs and slings , bows and arrows , swords , falchions , javelines , maces , battle- axes and battering - rams ; and the portable arms when gunpowder came into use , -hand - gun , arque- bus , haquebut , wheel - lock , caliver ...
... arms , clubs and slings , bows and arrows , swords , falchions , javelines , maces , battle- axes and battering - rams ; and the portable arms when gunpowder came into use , -hand - gun , arque- bus , haquebut , wheel - lock , caliver ...
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... arms should not be above doing his duty though he wears a red coat he must be a true blue , and peacefully preserve , in every situ- ation , the articles of war . " FOLKARO CHAPTER II . — A general rule for the SOLDIERS AND SAILORS . 11.
... arms should not be above doing his duty though he wears a red coat he must be a true blue , and peacefully preserve , in every situ- ation , the articles of war . " FOLKARO CHAPTER II . — A general rule for the SOLDIERS AND SAILORS . 11.
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Page 274 - 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 315 - We thought as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him, — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him.
Page 53 - This day is called the feast of Crispian. He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when this day is named, And rouse him at the name of Crispian. He that shall live this day, and see old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours, And say "Tomorrow is Saint Crispian." Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars, And say "These wounds I had on Crispin's day.
Page 62 - His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Page 75 - Fitz-James's blade was sword and shield. He practised every pass and ward, To thrust, to strike, to feint, to guard ; While less expert, though stronger far, The Gael maintained unequal war. Three times in closing strife they stood, And thrice the Saxon blade drank blood ; No stinted draught, no scanty tide, The gushing flood the tartans dyed.
Page 315 - 11 reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done When the clock struck the hour for retiring; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not a line, we raised not a stone — But we left him alone with his glory.
Page 105 - Here, a sheer hulk, lies poor Tom Bowling, The darling of our crew; No more he'll hear the tempest howling, For death has broach'd him to. His form was of the manliest beauty, His heart was kind and soft; Faithful below he did his duty, And now he's gone aloft.
Page 74 - Then each at once his falchion drew, Each on the ground his scabbard threw, Each looked to sun and stream and plain, As what they ne'er might see again ; Then, foot and point and eye opposed, In dubious strife they darkly closed.
Page 19 - Were I so tall to reach the pole, Or grasp the ocean with my span, I must be measured by my soul : The mind's the standard of the man.
Page 151 - His arms are neutral, hanging and swinging in a curve aloof; his hands, half open, look as if they had just been handling ropes, and had no object in life but to handle them again. He is proud of appearing in a new hat and slops, with a belcher handkerchief flowing loosely round his neck, and the corner of another out of his pocket. Thus equipped, with pinchbeck buckles in his...