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Pagina 4
... this important station , than Lord Collingwood . I suppose I shall be ordered on some other service , as Sir J. Duckworth will , most probably , place some of his own friends on the Adriatic service , 4 MEMOIRS AND LETTERS.
... this important station , than Lord Collingwood . I suppose I shall be ordered on some other service , as Sir J. Duckworth will , most probably , place some of his own friends on the Adriatic service , 4 MEMOIRS AND LETTERS.
Pagina 5
... friends on the Adriatic service , a preference I have not a right to expect . If peace be actually signed between Austria and France , the ships of the line will , of course , quit the Adriatic ; in that case there will be good pickings ...
... friends on the Adriatic service , a preference I have not a right to expect . If peace be actually signed between Austria and France , the ships of the line will , of course , quit the Adriatic ; in that case there will be good pickings ...
Pagina 8
... friends in Norfolk have long since made for me . I am settling an unpleasant business with the Imperialists relative to their marine . They wanted to give it to France : I have put in my veto , and have prevented it . TO MRS . HOSTE ...
... friends in Norfolk have long since made for me . I am settling an unpleasant business with the Imperialists relative to their marine . They wanted to give it to France : I have put in my veto , and have prevented it . TO MRS . HOSTE ...
Pagina 9
... friends know that I am still in these parts though , and a month's cruise from Fiume has enabled us to capture ... friend of Lord Nelson's , and of course much looked up to by all our gallant conntryman's élèves ; he was par- ticularly ...
... friends know that I am still in these parts though , and a month's cruise from Fiume has enabled us to capture ... friend of Lord Nelson's , and of course much looked up to by all our gallant conntryman's élèves ; he was par- ticularly ...
Pagina 12
... friend , and a man like Brenton is as likely , and much more so than our friend Lord Nelson was when I first went with him , to turn out as great a character . Everybody knows him as one of the best officers in our service , and if I ...
... friend , and a man like Brenton is as likely , and much more so than our friend Lord Nelson was when I first went with him , to turn out as great a character . Everybody knows him as one of the best officers in our service , and if I ...
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Memoirs and Letters of Capt. Sir William Hoste, Volume 2 Sir William Hoste (1st Bart.) Volledige weergave - 1833 |
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Active Admiral Freemantle Adriatic Amphion anchor Ancona arrived assistance attack Austrian Bacchante batteries Bellona blockade boats Bocca di Cattaro Bocchese brave brig British Captain Hoste captured cargo carronade Castel Nuovo Cattaro Cerberus coast of Italy command commodore convoy Corfu Corona crew Croats cruise Dalmatia dear father DIXON HOSTE duty eighteen-pounders enemy enemy's England exertions fire Fiume flag Flora force fortress French friends frigate gallant garrison going gun-boats guns H. M. S. Bacchante happy harbour honour hope Hoste's island JOURNAL CONTINUED landed larboard letter licences Lieutenant Lissa Lord Majesty's ships Malta marines merchant Montenegrins morning mother mountain night officers orders peace port possession prizes Ragusa received regret sailed sent shore shot Sir William Hoste soon squadron station surrender taken tion took town trabacculos trade Trieste troops Venice vessels Volage whilst WILLIAM HOSTE wind wish wounded xebec
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Pagina 272 - How sleep the brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there!
Pagina 267 - He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Pagina 26 - Englishmen; both officers and men were personally engaged hand to hand, and out of the number killed by the enemy in this encounter eight were bayonet wounds, which will convince you, Sir, of the nature of the attack. " A struggle of this kind could not last long, and the French troops endeavoured in great confusion to regain their former position; they were closely pursued, and charged in their turn, which decided the business, and the whole detachment of the enemy, consisting of a lieutenant, serjeant,...
Pagina 319 - ... attempt, and rendered so totally unmanageable, that in the act of wearing he went on shore on the rocks of Lissa, in the greatest possible confusion. The line was then wore to renew the action, the Amphion not half a...
Pagina 318 - AM the action commenced by our firing on the headmost ships as they came within range. The intention of the enemy appeared to be to break our line in two places ; the starboard division, led by the French commodore, bearing upon the...
Pagina 32 - Venerable, off the coast of Holland, the i2th of October, by log (nth1 three PM Camperdown ESE eight mile. Wind N. by E. Sir, I have the pleasure to acquaint you, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that...
Pagina 321 - Gordon and myself considered her us our own : the delay of getting a boat on board the Bellona, and the anxious pursuit of Captain Gordon after the beaten enemy, enabled him to steal off, till too late for our shattered ships to come up with him, his rigging and sails apparently not much injured ; but by the laws of war I shall ever maintain he belongs to us.
Pagina 27 - In this latter business a lieutenant and twenty-two men of the 5th Regiment of Light Infantry (all French troops) were made prisoners. The same intrepidity which had insured success before, was equally conspicuous on this second occasion. About seven in the evening I had the satisfaction of seeing the whole detachment coming off to the squadron, which I had anchored about four miles from the town directly the wind allowed, and everything was secured by eight o'clock. A service of this nature had...
Pagina 321 - ... enemy, enabled him to steal off, till too late for our shattered ships to come up with him, his rigging and sails apparently not much injured ; but by the laws of war I shall ever maintain he belongs to us. The enemy's squadron, as per inclosed return, was commanded by Mons.