Biographia Navalis: Or, Impartial Memoirs of the Lives and Characters of Officers of the Navy of Great Britain, from the Year 1660 to the Present Time; Drawn from the Most Authentic Sources, and Disposed in a Chronological Arrangement, 第 4 卷R. Faulder, 1796 |
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... action with the Spanish fleet , having led the detach- ment , ordered under captain Walton , to purfue the divifion of fix fhips of war , with the gallies and fmaller veffels , commanded by the marquis de Mari , which separated from the ...
... action with the Spanish fleet , having led the detach- ment , ordered under captain Walton , to purfue the divifion of fix fhips of war , with the gallies and fmaller veffels , commanded by the marquis de Mari , which separated from the ...
第 20 頁
... action off Cape Pallaro , This he appears to have improved to the utmoft of his power , which may readily be credited even from our fimply relating that he was one of the comman- ders detached under captain , afterwards fir Geo . Walton ...
... action off Cape Pallaro , This he appears to have improved to the utmoft of his power , which may readily be credited even from our fimply relating that he was one of the comman- ders detached under captain , afterwards fir Geo . Walton ...
第 32 頁
... action may not prove anentertaining . " The Princeffa was a fixty - eight gun fhip , high built , and there- fore had the uncommon advantage of ufing her lower tier of guns in bad weather . There were on board her at the time of the action ...
... action may not prove anentertaining . " The Princeffa was a fixty - eight gun fhip , high built , and there- fore had the uncommon advantage of ufing her lower tier of guns in bad weather . There were on board her at the time of the action ...
第 33 頁
... action commenced about eleven o'clock , the Lenox bringing to on the weather quarter of the enemy , while the Kent , who followed immediately , ran to leeward and engaged broadfide and broad fide . The Orford foon afterwards got into action ...
... action commenced about eleven o'clock , the Lenox bringing to on the weather quarter of the enemy , while the Kent , who followed immediately , ran to leeward and engaged broadfide and broad fide . The Orford foon afterwards got into action ...
第 37 頁
... action with two French fhips of war on the preceding day . He died on the 12th of July following , not having , as it is faid , lived to have his rank confirmed by the board of admiralty at home . TEMPLE , John , -was , on the 24th of ...
... action with two French fhips of war on the preceding day . He died on the 12th of July following , not having , as it is faid , lived to have his rank confirmed by the board of admiralty at home . TEMPLE , John , -was , on the 24th of ...
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第 172 頁 - Majefty's honour, and my country's fervice. I am forry that my endeavours were not attended with more fuccefs, and that the armament under my command proved too weak to fucceed in an expedition of fuch moment. Truth has prevailed over calumny and falfehood, and juftice has wiped off the ignominious ftain of my fuppoled want of perfonal courage, or difaffeftion.
第 333 頁 - Thus beloved and revered, amiable in private life as illustrious in public, this gallant and profitable servant of his country, when he was beginning to reap the harvest of his toils and dangers, in the full meridian of years and glory, after having been providentially...
第 338 頁 - Generalship of the Marines, together with his rank in the navy, at the King's feet, entreating him to take both away, if they could forward his service...
第 218 頁 - Joseph, and to two ships that guarded the mouth of the harbour, which he sustained for many hours that day, and part of the next, with uncommon intrepidity. As he was giving his...
第 166 頁 - Article of War, part of which he falls under, and which admits of no mitigation, even if the crime should be committed by an error in judgment only ; and therefore, for our own consciences ' sakes, as well as in justice to the prisoner, we pray your Lordships, in the most earnest manner, to recommend him to his Majesty's clemency.
第 236 頁 - George the second, intituled, "an act for naturalizing such foreign Protestants and "others therein mentioned as are settled or shall settle in any of his " Majesty's Colonies in America...
第 147 頁 - ... what batteries or guns might be placed to prevent our having any communication with the Castle, falling little wind, it was five before I could form my line, or distinguish any of the enemy's motions; and not at all to judge of their force more than by their numbers, which were...
第 150 頁 - three feet to our one, and therefore have the choice " how they will engage us, or if they will at all, and...
第 173 頁 - ... be on their fide, God forgive them, as I do ; and may the diftrefs of their minds, and uneafinefs of their confciences, which in juftice to me they have reprefented, be relieved and fubfide as my refentment has done. The Supreme Judge lees all hearts and motives, and to him I muft fubmit the juftice of my caufe.
第 172 頁 - I know my own innocence, and am conscious that no part of my country's misfortunes can be owing to me.