my plan of attack, as far as a man dare venture to guess at the very uncertain position the enemy may be found in: but it is to place you perfectly at ease respecting my intentions, and to give full scope to your judgment for carrying them into effect. Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816 - Page 294by Julian Stafford Corbett - 1905 - 366 pagesFull view - About this book
| George Lathom Browne - Admirals - 1891 - 576 pages
...England, you are to return this memo, to the Victory." On the same day he wrote to Collingwood : — " I send you my plan of attack, as far as a man dare...But, my dear friend, it is to place you perfectly at ease respecting my intentions, and to give full scope to your judgment for carrying them into effect.... | |
| William Clark Russell - Admirals - 1891 - 298 pages
...Collingwood ; " we are one, and I hope we shall be." " I send you my plan of attack," he says, October 9th, " as far as a man dare venture to guess at the very...but, my dear friend, it is to place you perfectly at ease respecting my intentions, and to give full scope to your judgment for carrying them into effect.... | |
| Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton - Biography - 1895 - 456 pages
...October Nelson sent Collingwood what he called, in his diary, the Nelson-touch. "I send you," said he, " my plan of attack, as far as a man dare venture to...uncertain position the enemy may be found in : but it is to place you perfectly at ease respecting my intentions, and to give full scope to your judgment... | |
| Kate Stephens, Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - Literature - 1895 - 328 pages
...ninth Nelson sent Collingwood what he called in his diary "the Nelson-touch." "I send you," said he, "my plan of attack, as far as a man dare venture to...uncertain position the enemy may be found in; but it is to place you perfectly at ease respecting my intentions, and to give full scope to your judgment... | |
| Robert Southey - Admirals - 1895 - 316 pages
...with all due respect to their decision." (From Nelson's letter to Lord Barham, September 30, 1805.) attack, as far as a man dare venture to guess at the...uncertain position the enemy may be found in; but it is to place you perfectly at ease respecting my intentions, and to give full scope to your judgment... | |
| Robert Southey - Admirals - 1896 - 354 pages
...Nelson sent Collingwood what he called, in his diary, the Nelson touch. 1 " I send you," said he, " my plan of attack, as far as a man dare venture to...uncertain position the enemy may be found in: but it is to place you perfectly at ease respecting my intentions, and to give full scope to your judgment... | |
| Robert Southey - Admirals - 1896 - 378 pages
...gth Nelson sent Collingwood what he called, in his diary, the Nelson-touch. ' I send you,' said he, ' my plan of attack, as far as a man dare venture to...uncertain position the enemy may be found in : but it is to place you perfectly at ease respecting my intentions, and to give full scope to your judgment... | |
| Robert Southey - Great Britain - 1902 - 388 pages
...Nelson sent Colling wood what he called, in his diary, the Nelson-touch. " I send you," said he, " my plan of attack, as far as a man dare venture to...uncertain position the enemy may be found in : but it is to place you perfectly at ease respecting my intentions, and to give full scope to your judgment... | |
| Charles Francis Horne - World history - 1905 - 580 pages
...Nelson sent Collingwood what he called in his diary the " Nelson touch." " I send you," said he, " my plan of attack, as far as a man dare venture to...uncertain position the enemy may be found in; but it is to place you perfectly at ease respecting my intentions, and to give full scope to your judgment... | |
| Ernest Edwin Speight, Robert Morton Nance - Explorers - 1906 - 448 pages
...9th, Nelson sent Collingwood what he called, in his diary, the Nelson-touch. " I send you," he said, " my plan of attack, as far as a man dare venture to...uncertain position the enemy may be found in ; but it is to place you perfectly at ease respecting my intentions, and to give full scope to your judgment... | |
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