 I have therefore made up my mind to keep the fleet in that" position of sailing (with the exception of the first and second in command) that the order of sailing is to be the order of battle, placing the fleet in two lines of sixteen ships each, with...  The life of ... Horatio lord viscount Nelson - Page 479by James Harrison (biographer of Nelson.) - 1806Full view - About this book
 | James Stanier Clarke, Stephen Jones, John Jones - Europe - 1805 - 584 pages
...to battle, in such a manner as to make the business decisive ; — I have therefore made up my mind to keep the fleet in that position of sailing, (with...command), that the order of sailing is to be the order of battle; plac.ing the fleet in two lines of sixteen Ships each, with an advanced squadron of eight of... | |
 | Archibald Duncan - 1806 - 380 pages
...enemy to battle in such a manner as to make the business decisive, I have therefore made up my mind to keep the fleet in that position of sailing, (with...the order of the battle ; placing the fleet in two tines, of sixteen ships each, with au advanced squadron of eight of the fastest sailing two-decked... | |
 | sir William Beatty - 1807 - 114 pages
...Enemy to battle in such a manner as to make the business decisive, I have therefore made up my mind to keep the Fleet in that position of sailing, with...Command, that the order of sailing is to be the order of battle : pla'cingthe Fleet in two lines, of sixteen ships each with an advanced squadron of eight of... | |
 | Edward Pelham Brenton - Great Britain - 1824 - 588 pages
...enemy to battle iu such a manner as to make the business decisive, I have, therefore, made up my mind to keep the fleet in that position of sailing, with...command, that the order of sailing is to be the order of battle, placing the fleet in two lines, sixteen ships each, with an advanced squadron of eight of the... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Nelson (Viscount), Matthew Henry Barker - 1836 - 500 pages
...enemy to battle in such a manner as to make the business decisive ; I have therefore made up my mind to keep the fleet in that position of sailing, with...command, that the order of sailing is to be the order of battle ; placing the fleet in two lines, of sixteen ships each, with an advanced squadron of eight... | |
 | Edward Pelham Brenton - Great Britain - 1837 - 778 pages
...enemy to battle in such a manner as to make the business decisive, I have, therefore, made up my mind to keep the fleet in that position of sailing, with...command, that the order of sailing is to be the order of battle, placing the fleet in two lines, 16 ships each, with an advanced squadron of eight of the fastest... | |
 | William James - Great Britain - 1837 - 408 pages
...enemy to battle in such a manner as to make the business decisive ; I have therefore made up my mind to keep the fleet in that position of sailing (with...command), that the order of sailing is to be the order of battle; placing the fleet in two lines of 16 ships each, with an advanced squadron of eight of the... | |
 | Horatio Nelson (1st visct.) - 1846 - 864 pages
...Enemy to Battle in such a manner as to make the business decisive, I have therefore made up my mind to keep the Fleet in that position of sailing (with...Command) that the Order of Sailing is to be the Order of Battle, placing the Fleet in two Lines of sixteen Ships each, with an Advanced Squadron of eight of... | |
 | William Freke Williams - 1854 - 818 pages
...enemy to battle in such a manner as to make the business decisive, I have, therefore, made ap my mind to keep the fleet in that position of sailing (with...command), that the order of sailing is to be the order of battle, placing the fleet in two lines, sixteen ships each, with an advanced squadron of eight of the... | |
 | William James - 1859 - 548 pages
...enemy to battle in such a manner as to make the business decisive ; I have therefore made up my mind to keep the fleet in that position of sailing (with...command), that the order of sailing is to be the order of battle ; placing the fleet in two lines of 16 ships each, with an advanced squadron of eight of the... | |
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