 | Henry Stewart (M.A.) - 1880 - 418 pages
...Calcutta in the presence of the enemy, suffered death on board the admiral's ship. Napoleon's opinion was that if Cochrane had been supported he would have taken every one of the French ships. The victory, however, partial as it was, led to the capture of the French West India... | |
 | William H. Long - Great Britain - 1895 - 520 pages
...overboard, so that they could have offered very little resistance. The French admiral was an imbecile, but yours was just as bad. I assure you, that if Cochrane...been supported he would have taken every one of the ships."—O'Meara's Napolion in Exile, vol. ii. which was hold at Portsmouth. The court showed a strong... | |
 | Leonard George Carr Laughton, Roger Charles Anderson, William Gordon Perrin - Great Britain - 1925 - 510 pages
...quipeuty in fact—they became panic-struck, and cut their cables....The French admiral was an imbecile, but yours was just as bad. I assure you, that if Cochrane...supported, he would have taken every one of the ships 2 ." 1 Adm. 1/141 passim. Cf. also Col. S. Childers, "A Mariner of England," p. 244 (John Murray, 1908).... | |
 | William James - Chaplains, Military - 2003 - 464 pages
...overboard, so that they could have offered very little resistance. The French admiral was an imbecile, but yours was just as bad. I assure you that, if Cochrane...ships. They ought not to have been alarmed by your brfilots, but fear deprived them of their senses, and they no longer knew how to act in their own defence.'”... | |
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but yours was just as bad. I assure you that, if Cochrane had been supported, he would have taken every one of the ships. They ought not to have been alarmed by your brulots, but fear deprived them of their senses, and they no longer knew how to act in... 
