 The whole impression of the British fleet must be to overpower from two or three ships ahead of their commander-in-chief, supposed to be in the centre, to the rear of their fleet.  Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816 - Page 317by Julian Stafford Corbett - 1905 - 366 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - Admirals - 1899 - 918 pages
...the British fleet must be to overpower from two or three ships ahead of their coiumander-in-chief, supposed to be in the Centre, to the Rear of their fleet." The northern flank of the allies — ten or a dozen ships — was consequently left unengaged, unless... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1905 - 862 pages
...so as to ensure getting at their commander-in-chief, whom every effort must be made to capture. The whole impression of the British fleet must be to overpower from two or three ships ahead of their commander-in-chief, supposed to be in the centre, to the rear of their... | |
 | Gabriel Darrieus - Naval art and science - 1908 - 340 pages
...to ensure getting at their commander-in-chief, on whom every effort must be made to capture. " The whole impression of the British fleet must be to overpower from two or three ships ahead of their commander-in-chief, supposed to be in the center, to the rear of their... | |
 | James Richard Thursfield - Biography & Autobiography - 1909 - 446 pages
...as to ensure getting at their Commander-in-Chief, on whom every effort must be made to capture. The whole impression of the British fleet must be to overpower from two or three Ships ahead of their Commander-in-Chief, supposed to be in the Centre, to the Rear of their... | |
 | Great Britain - 1912 - 154 pages
...fetch, if not able to get so far advanced. My line would cut through about their centre. . . . The whole impression of the British fleet must be to overpower [from] two or three ships ahead of their commander-in-chief — supposed to be in the centre — to the rear of... | |
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - Naval art and science - 1918 - 416 pages
...as to ensure getting at their Commander-in-Chief, on whom every effort must be made to capture. The whole impression of the British Fleet must be to overpower from two or three Ships a-head of their Commander-in-Chief, supposed to be in the Center, to the Rear of their... | |
 | Julian Stafford Corbett - Trafalgar, Battle of, 1805 - 1919 - 362 pages
...-in-chief on whom every effort must be made to capture [him].4 The whole impression of the British fleet 5 must be to overpower from two to three ships ahead...centre to the rear of their fleet. I will suppose a twenty sail of the enemy's 7 line to be untouched, it must be some time before they could perform... | |
 | James Richard Thursfield - Great Britain - 1920 - 440 pages
...as to ensure getting at their Commander-in-Chief, on whom every effort must be made to capture. The whole impression of the British fleet must be to overpower from two or three Ships ahead of their Commander-in-Chief, supposed to be in the Centre, to the Rear of their... | |
 | Harold Winter Hodges, Edward Arthur Hughes - Great Britain - 1922 - 260 pages
...as to ensure getting at their Commander In Chief on whom every Effort must be made to Capture. The whole impression of the British [fleet] must be, to overpower from two or three Ships ahead of their Commander In Chief, supposed to be in the centre, to the Rear of their... | |
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