 | John George Edgar - Death - 1884 - 492 pages
...sixty-fours, to bear up in two columns, as they are formed in the order of sailing. The enemy's line consisted of thirty-three ships, of which eighteen were French and fifteen Spanish, commanded by Admiral Villeneuve, the second in command being Gravina. Lord Nelson signalled Collingwood to attack... | |
 | George Lathom Browne - Admirals - 1891 - 576 pages
...Commander-in-chief immediately made the signal for the fleet to bear up in two columns, as they arc formed in order of sailing; a mode of attack his lordship...to avoid the inconvenience and delay in forming a line-of-battle in the usual 1 Appendix to Despatches, vol. vii. p. 225. manner. The enemy's line consisted... | |
 | Arthur Corbett-Smith - World War, 1914-1918 - 1919 - 306 pages
...Commander-in-Chief immediately made the signal for the fleet to bear up in two columns, as they are formed in order of sailing ; a mode of attack his...forming a line of battle in the usual manner. . . . The action began at twelve o'clock, by the leading ships of the columns breaking through the enemy's line... | |
 | Dudley Pope - Fiction - 1999 - 384 pages
...Commander-in-Chief immediately made the signal for the Fleet to bear up in two columns, as they are formed in order of sailing; a mode of attack his Lordship...forming a line of battle in the usual manner. . . . The Commander-in-Chief, in the Victory, led the weather column, and the Royal Sovereign, which bore my... | |
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Chief immediately made the signal for the fleet to bear up in two columns, as they are formed in order of sailing; a mode of attack his Lordship had previously directed, to avoid the inconvenience and delay in forming a line of battle in the usual manner. 
