Ocean and Her Rulers: A Narrative of the Nations which Have from the Earliest Ages Held Dominion Over the Sea, Comprising a Brief History of Navigation from the Remotest Periods to the Present Time |
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... attempt to become their purveyors . With this view , the Phoenicians possessed themselves of some harbours in the Arabian Gulf , whence they derived goods by direct intercourse with India ; these , conveyed to Rhinocolura , the nearest ...
... attempt to become their purveyors . With this view , the Phoenicians possessed themselves of some harbours in the Arabian Gulf , whence they derived goods by direct intercourse with India ; these , conveyed to Rhinocolura , the nearest ...
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... , Xerxes set out to attempt the conquest of Greece . We are told that his vessels of war numbered twelve hundred , each of which was manned by two hundred and thirty men ; that there were three thousand transports capable of D 2 35.
... , Xerxes set out to attempt the conquest of Greece . We are told that his vessels of war numbered twelve hundred , each of which was manned by two hundred and thirty men ; that there were three thousand transports capable of D 2 35.
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... attempt proved a total failure , and the whole affair was but another of the disastrous episodes of this distracting portion of Grecian history . It is worthy of remark , as proving the defective state of navigation at this time , that ...
... attempt proved a total failure , and the whole affair was but another of the disastrous episodes of this distracting portion of Grecian history . It is worthy of remark , as proving the defective state of navigation at this time , that ...
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... attempts , that they were compelled to desist from further proceedings , and submit to humiliating terms of peace . Seventy years after this event , they made another hostile descent upon Sicily , and with better success , for they took ...
... attempts , that they were compelled to desist from further proceedings , and submit to humiliating terms of peace . Seventy years after this event , they made another hostile descent upon Sicily , and with better success , for they took ...
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... attempted to scale the walls . Yet all these were vain ; the place was taken , and Archimedes himself , to the regret of Marcellus , was slain by a soldier when engaged in solving a problem . Like success attended the Roman arms in ...
... attempted to scale the walls . Yet all these were vain ; the place was taken , and Archimedes himself , to the regret of Marcellus , was slain by a soldier when engaged in solving a problem . Like success attended the Roman arms in ...
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