 | Joseph ALLEN (of Greenwich Hospital.) - 1853 - 290 pagina’s
..." Our dear great Earl of St. Vincent's orders to me were to follow the French Mediterranean fleet, and to annihilate them. It has been done, thanks to...my enemies), call a glorious career, be so treated ! " The French had, it is true, been expelled from the Neapolitan territories, but Nelson perceived,... | |
 | Sir Charles Napier - 1857 - 682 pagina’s
...Keith sailed from Spithead, to take from me all opportunity of rewarding merit." (March 11. 1800.) " My task is done — my health lost — and I have...enemies), call a glorious career, be so treated." (April 6th, 1800.) When Lord Nelson was afterwards sent to Copenhagen, he was, notwithstanding his... | |
 | John Knox Laughton - 1895 - 264 pagina’s
..." Our dear, great Earl of St. Vincent's orders to me were to follow the French Mediterranean fleet and to annihilate them. It has been done, thanks to...orders be as punctually obeyed, but never again an off1cer at the close of what I must — without being thought vain — call a glorious career, be so... | |
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - 1897 - 524 pagina’s
...alluding to the completion of the destruction of the Nile fleet by the capture of the " Guillaume Tell," "but never again an officer at the close of what I...being thought vain ( for such I am represented by enemies), call a glorious career, be so treated ! " Keith's opinion of Nelson's obedience was probably... | |
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - 1897 - 540 pagina’s
...alluding to the completion of the destruction of the Nile fleet by the capture of the " Guillaume Tell," "but never again an officer at the close of what I...without being thought vain (for such I am represented by enemies), call a glorious career, be so treated ! " Keith's opinion of Nelson's obedience was probably... | |
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - 1899 - 906 pagina’s
...alluding to the completion of the destruction of the Nile fleet by the capture of the " Guillaume Tell," " but never again an officer at the close of what I must, without being thought vain (1'or such I am represented by enemies), cull a glorious career, be so treated !" Keith's opinion of... | |
 | John Knox Laughton - 1900 - 326 pagina’s
...Our dear, great Earl of St. • Vincent's orders to me were to follow the French Mediterranean fleet and to annihilate them. It has been done, thanks to...close of what I must— without being thought vain — call a glorious career, be so treated. I go with our dear friends Sir William and Lady Hamilton... | |
 | John Knox Laughton - 1919 - 260 pagina’s
..." Our dear, great Earl of St. Vincent's orders to me were to follow the French Mediterranean fleet and to annihilate them. It has been done, thanks to...close of what I must — without being thought vain — call a glorious career, be so treated. I go with our dear friends Sir William and Lady Hamilton... | |
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Our dear, great Earl of St. Vincent's orders to me were to follow the French Mediterranean fleet and to annihilate them. It has been done, thanks to the zeal and bravery of my gallant friends. My task is done, my health lost, and I have wrote to Lord... 