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Pagina xiv
... join in the Dutch operations , expressed the naïve hope that she might still receive her subsidy - for benevolent neutrality . Russia provided less troops than she was paid for ( Cambridge History of British Foreign Policy , vol . i . p ...
... join in the Dutch operations , expressed the naïve hope that she might still receive her subsidy - for benevolent neutrality . Russia provided less troops than she was paid for ( Cambridge History of British Foreign Policy , vol . i . p ...
Pagina 46
... join him at his rendezvous , and he was ordered to keep with you as many ships as the preparations of the enemy may require , sending the rest to Cawsand Bay to com- plete their stores and provisions , with orders to rejoin you as ...
... join him at his rendezvous , and he was ordered to keep with you as many ships as the preparations of the enemy may require , sending the rest to Cawsand Bay to com- plete their stores and provisions , with orders to rejoin you as ...
Pagina 50
... joining him . Pasley , at Plymouth , was informed that if he heard Bridport had brought the enemy to action , or that the fleets were so near that an action might result , he was ' immediately to send off Brest whatever ships are ready ...
... joining him . Pasley , at Plymouth , was informed that if he heard Bridport had brought the enemy to action , or that the fleets were so near that an action might result , he was ' immediately to send off Brest whatever ships are ready ...
Pagina 51
... join St. Vincent off Cadiz or elsewhere . The instructions give an idea of the world - wide nature of the threat exercised by such a fleet as that of Bruix , possessing the power to move to any part of the globe . If , when Gardner ...
... join St. Vincent off Cadiz or elsewhere . The instructions give an idea of the world - wide nature of the threat exercised by such a fleet as that of Bruix , possessing the power to move to any part of the globe . If , when Gardner ...
Pagina 52
... join his Majesty's squadron off or in the entrance of the Red Sea , and putting himself and the said ships under the orders of the commanding officer on that station for the time being , follow his orders for his further proceedings ...
... join his Majesty's squadron off or in the entrance of the Red Sea , and putting himself and the said ships under the orders of the commanding officer on that station for the time being , follow his orders for his further proceedings ...
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Abercromby Admiral Admiralty appears army arrived attack August blockade Brest British Cadiz Captain Cawsand Bay Channel Fleet chasse marées circumstances co-operation coast command convoy cutter dear Lord dear Lord,-I dear Sir detachment dispatches Domingo doubt DUNDAS TO SPENCER Dutch Edited embarked employed enclosed enemy enemy's expedition faithful humble servant Ferrol force frigates gunboats Helder HENRY DUNDAS Holland HOME POPHAM honour hope HYDE PARKER instructions Ireland Island Jamaica land letter Lord Bridport Lord Keith Lord St Lordship Lordship's most obedient Majesty Majesty's Mediterranean Minorca MITCHELL naval Navy necessary Nelson Nicholas Mole obedient humble servant object officers operations orders PARKER TO SPENCER Pitt port possession possible present Rear-Admiral received respect Richery Russian S. R. Gardiner sail sent ships Sir Alan Gardner situation Spanish squadron station Texel tion Torbay troops trust vessels Vice-Admiral VINCENT TO SPENCER West Indies wind
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Pagina iii - SOCIETY desire it to be understood that they are not answerable for any opinions or observations that may appear in the Society's publications; the Editors of the several Works being alone responsible for the same.
Pagina 88 - Should such an order come at this moment," he said, in a letter previously written to the Admiralty, " it would be a case for some consideration, whether Minorca is to be risked, or the two kingdoms of Naples and Sicily: I rather think my decision would be to risk the former.
Pagina 89 - Sir William and Lady Hamilton are, to my great comfort, with me; for, without them, it would have been impossible I could have rendered half the service to his majesty which I have now done: their heads, and their hearts, are equally great and good.
Pagina 53 - My conduct is measured by the Admiralty, by the narrow rule of law, when I think it should have been done by that of common sense. I restored a faithful Ally by breach of orders ; Lord Keith lost a Fleet by obedience, against his own sense. Yet as one is censured the other must be approved.
Pagina 52 - Although in operations on the sea-coast, it may frequently be highly expedient to land a part of the seamen of the squadron, to co-operate with and to assist the army, when the situation will admit of their being immediately reembarked, if the squadron should be called away to act elsewhere...
Pagina 85 - ... that a longer continuance in the command would be injurious to his Majesty's service and unjust to Lord Keith I determined to put him in immediate possession of it, in order to give full scope to his exertions, which I am sure will not disappoint the expectations of his most sanguine friends.
Pagina ix - the protection of the coasts of Sicily, Naples, and the Adriatic, and, in the event of war being renewed in Italy, an active co-operation with the Austrian and Neapolitan armies." Long before these instructions were received, the very day indeed that they were written, Nelson had become urgently instrumental in precipitating Naples into war. Next in order of interest, by the Admiralty's letters, were, successively, the isolation of Egypt and of Malta, and co-operation with the...
Pagina 52 - Keith had called it], or if information of the approach of an enemy's fleet should be received, — yet their Lordships by no means approve of the seamen being landed to form a part of an army to be employed in operations at a distance from the coast, where, if they should have the misfortune to be defeated, they might be prevented from returning to the ships, and the squadron be thereby rendered so defective, as to be no longer capable of performing the services required of it; and I have their...