 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
 | 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... | |
 | Edward Keble Chatterton - Naval battles - 1925 - 360 pages
...twelfth ship from their rear,' whilst Nelson's own line ' would lead through about their centre.' ' The whole impression of the British Fleet must be to overpower from two or three ships ahead of their [ie, the enemy's] Commander-in-Chief, supposed to be in the centre, to... | |
 | Edward Keble Chatterton - Naval battles - 1925 - 364 pages
...twelfth ship from their rear,' whilst Nelson's own line ' would lead through about their centre.' ' The whole impression of the British Fleet must be to overpower from two or three ships ahead of their [ie, the enemy's] Commander-in-Chief, supposed to be in the centre, to... | |
 | Mark Kerr - Admirals - 1927 - 466 pages
...found the enemy, and which was carried out at the Battle of Trafalgar. 'SECRET MEMORANDUM ' . . . 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... | |
 | Gérard Chaliand - History - 1994 - 1126 pages
...impression of the British 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...I will suppose twenty Sail of the Enemy's Line to Horatio Nelson, "The Trafalgar Memorandum," in Adrian Liddell Hart, The Sword and the Pen (New York:... | |
 | Dudley Pope - Fiction - 1999 - 384 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... | |
 | Lincoln P. Paine - History - 2000 - 292 pages
...outlined his plan of attack, "the Nelson Touch," as he called it in a letter to Emma Hamilton: 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... | |
 | Colin White - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 380 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 over-power from two or three Ships a-head of their Commander-in-Chief, supposed to be in the Centre, to the Rear of their... | |
 | Edgar Vincent - History - 2003 - 654 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 over-power from two or three ships ahead of their Commander-in-Chief, supposed to be in the Centre, to the Rear of their... | |
 | Nicholas Blake, Richard Lawrence - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 214 pages
...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 the fleet. I will suppose twenty sail of the enemy's line to be untouched; it must be some time before... | |
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