The Naval History of Great Britain, from the Declaration of War by France in 1793, to the Accession of George IV.Richard Bentley, 1837 |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 6-10 de 91
Página 29
... broadsides , on opposite tacks , at about half gun - shot distance . Soon after the Childers had discharged her broadside , the Dane was discovered to be on fire forward ; and , had the Childers been near enough to profit by the ...
... broadsides , on opposite tacks , at about half gun - shot distance . Soon after the Childers had discharged her broadside , the Dane was discovered to be on fire forward ; and , had the Childers been near enough to profit by the ...
Página 35
... broadside of the frigate was at length brought momentarily to bear , and one of the gun - boats was sunk by its discharge . The action continued in this partial manner for an hour and a half ; when , a light air springing up , the ...
... broadside of the frigate was at length brought momentarily to bear , and one of the gun - boats was sunk by its discharge . The action continued in this partial manner for an hour and a half ; when , a light air springing up , the ...
Página 48
... broadside : on which the Wizard , who was nearing fast , ran close under her opponent's stern , and , having raked the Requin with guns double - shotted , hove to under her lee quarter . In this position the two brigs fought , at close ...
... broadside : on which the Wizard , who was nearing fast , ran close under her opponent's stern , and , having raked the Requin with guns double - shotted , hove to under her lee quarter . In this position the two brigs fought , at close ...
Página 52
... broadsides at the frigate , and cut her sails and rigging a good deal . Scarcely had the Ronco hauled down her ... broadside with such effect , that she hauled down her colours without firing a gun . While the boats were proceeding ...
... broadsides at the frigate , and cut her sails and rigging a good deal . Scarcely had the Ronco hauled down her ... broadside with such effect , that she hauled down her colours without firing a gun . While the boats were proceeding ...
Página 53
... broadsides , fired her broad- side , struck her colours , and ran on shore . The wind continuing to decrease , and the remaining brig having got among a cluster of small islands , the Unité shortened sail to attend to the two that had ...
... broadsides , fired her broad- side , struck her colours , and ran on shore . The wind continuing to decrease , and the remaining brig having got among a cluster of small islands , the Unité shortened sail to attend to the two that had ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
24-pounders 38-gun frigate action admiral Africaine afterwards Amethyst Amphion anchor armed attack Basque roads batteries Bellone Boadicea boats Brenton brig brig-sloop British frigate British navy broadside Captain Captain Willoughby captured carronades Ceylon chase close coast colours command Commodore consorts convoy corvette cruising cutter Danish deck detached distance enemy enemy's fire fire-ships fleet force four French frigate French ships gallant George Guadaloupe gun-boats gun-brig guns harbour hauled hoisted Honourable immediately Impérieuse Iphigenia island Isle of France James John jollyboat Junon killed landed larboard larboard tack latter Lieutenant Lieutenant of marines Lord Cochrane Lord Collingwood Lord Gambier loss Lougen marines wounded master's mate masts midshipman miles minutes mounting musketry Néréide officers port Port-Louis pounders prize quarter Rear-admiral rigging road sail schooner Seahorse seamen and marines Sémillante ship-sloop shore shot signal Sirius sloop soon squadron starboard stern stood topmast Toulon troops Vénus vessels William wind windward Wrecked yards
Pasajes populares
Página 140 - Committee of the House of Commons, appointed to inquire into the Bankrupt Laws ; and i This and the two preceding motions were lost by large majorities.
Página 127 - The French admiral was an imbecille, 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 briilots, but fear deprived them of their senses, and they no longer knew how to act in their own defence.
Página 106 - ... hand-grenades. The puncheons were fastened to each other by cables wound round them, and jammed together with wedges; and moistened sand was rammed down between these casks, so as to render the whole, from stem to stern, as solid as possible, that the resistance might render the explosion the more violent.
Página 125 - And whereas, by the log-books and minutes of signals of the Caledonia, Imperieuse, and other ships employed on that service, it appears to us that the said Admiral Lord Gambier, on the 12th day of the said month of April, the enemy's ships being then on shore, and the signal having been made that they could be destroyed, did, for a considerable time, neglect or delay taking effectual measures for destroying them...
Página 386 - ... the van division keeping a point or two more away than the lee, the latter carrying less sail, and, when the fleet draws near the enemy, both columns are to preserve a line as nearly parallel to the hostile fleet as they can. In standing up to the enemy from the leeward upon a contrary tack...
Página 112 - Gambier's court-martial, his lordship was induced to anchor so far off, because, "as the enemy were on shore, he did not think it necessary to run any unnecessary risk of the fleet, when the object of their destruction seemed to be already obtained...
Página 89 - Lord Cochrane landed with his marines, under Lieutenant James Rivers Hore of that corps, and took possession of, the castle of Mongal; an important post completely commanding a pass in the road from Barcelona to Gerona, then besieged by the French, and the only post between those towns occupied by the enemy. The Spanish militia are represented to have behaved admirably, in carrying an outpost on a neighbouring hill. Lord Cochrane demolished the works, and gave up to the Spanish militia the arms of...
Página 127 - I said that it was the opinion of a very distinguished naval officer whom I named, and who was well known to him, that, if Cochrane had been properly supported, he would have destroyed the whole of the French ships. ' He could not only have destroyed them...
Página 127 - He could not only have destroyed them,' replied Napoleon, ' but he might and would have taken them out, had your admiral supported him as he ought to have done. For, in consequence of the signal made by L'Allemand...
Página 87 - Wizard, to tow in and cover the boats, which immediately put off, and, by great exertion, soon towed her close to the vessels, when it was found impossible to bring them out without landing, most of them being fastened to the shore by ropes from their keels and mast-heads; the boats, therefore, pulled to the beach with great resolution, exposed to the fire of two guns in the bow of the gun-boat, two...