 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - Great Britain - 1869 - 566 pages
...answered, " Here am I." The first speaker then said to him, "Take with thee an axe, and, when thou seest us engaging the tyrant's ship, climb up the mast and cut down his flag, that the others may think their leader lost, and their vessels may disperse." Sixteen ships,... | |
 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - Great Britain - 1869 - 550 pages
...answered, " Here am I." The first speaker then said to him, " Take with thee an axe, and, when thou scest us engaging the tyrant's ship, climb up the mast and cut down his flag, that the others may think their leader lost, and their vessels may disperse." Sixteen ships,... | |
 | George Henry Preble - Flags - 1872 - 578 pages
...another " Here am I." When the first speaker observed, " Take with thee an axe and when thou seest us engaging the tyrant's ship, climb up the mast,...the banner, that the other vessels may be dispersed for the want of a leader." From this we may infer that the French commander of a fleet carrieda distinguishing... | |
 | James Grant - 1873 - 594 pages
...said the first ADVANCE OF THE ENGLISH FLEET. who spoke, " take with thee an axe, and when them secst us engaging the tyrant's ship, climb up the mast and cut down his banner, so that the other vessels may be dispersed for want of a leader." Sixteen ships belonging... | |
 | George Henry Preble - Flags - 1880 - 928 pages
...another, " Here am I ; " when the first speaker observed, " Take with thee an axe, and when thou seest us engaging the tyrant's ship, climb up the mast and...the banner, that the other vessels may be dispersed for the want of a leader." We may infer from this that the French commander of a fleet carried a distinguishing... | |
 | Ford Madox Ford - Cinque Ports - 1900 - 534 pages
...by another, 'Here am I.' The first speaker then observed, 'Take with thee an axe and when thou seest us engaging the tyrant's ship, climb up the mast and cut down the banner, that the other ships may be dispersed from want of a leader.' Sixteen large and well armed ships, manned with skilful... | |
 | Ernest Edwin Speight, Robert Morton Nance - Explorers - 1906 - 448 pages
...another, " Here am I." The first speaker then observed, " Take with thee an axe, and when thou seest us engaging the tyrant's ship, climb up the mast,...twenty smaller vessels, formed the English squadron. Assembling some of the bravest of his knights, among whom were Sir Philip d'Albini, Sir Henry de Turberville,... | |
 | George Henry Preble - Flags - 1917 - 438 pages
...another, " Here am I ; " when the first speaker observed, " Take with thee an axe, and when thou seest us engaging the tyrant's ship, climb up the mast and...the banner, that the other vessels may be dispersed for the want of a leader." We may infer from this that the French commander of a fleet carried a distinguishing... | |
 | William Gordon Perrin - Flags - 1922 - 264 pages
...contemporary chronicler2 that one of Hubert de Burgh's men agreed, when they engaged Eustace's ship, "to climb up the mast and cut down the banner, that the other vessels may be dispersed from want of a leader." In 1346 there seems to have been still only one flag of command in a fleet. Edward... | |
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and was answered by another, " Here am I ; " when the first speaker observed, " Take with thee an axe, and when thou seest us engaging the tyrant's ship, climb up the mast and cut down the banner, that the other vessels may be dispersed for the want... 