 | 1834 - 576 pagina’s
...interior joints of the machine. This hidden conflagration, which could easily have been stopped by moving to a distance from the constant fire of the garrison,...a smoking state for six hours, and did not become unmanageable till after midnight.' D'Ar9on had proposed to send out a warp anchor, by which the vessel... | |
 | 1834 - 566 pagina’s
...joints of the machine. "1 : >• hidden conflagration, which could easily have been stnrijH-i by moving to a distance from the constant fire of the garrison, continued in a smoking state for six li»i.-v and did not become unmanageable till after midni^i,D'Arçon had proposed to send out a warp... | |
 | Frederick Sayer - 1862 - 558 pagina’s
...proceeded, at first from the outside, and afterwards through the interior joints. But this hidden fire, which could easily have been suppressed by removing...Talla Piedra. They were all abandoned, and, as if the red-hot shot of the enemy did not do sufficient execution, the resolution was taken to set our own... | |
 | Frederick Sayer - 1865 - 606 pagina’s
...proceeded, at first from the outside, and afterwards through the interior joints. But this hidden fire, which could easily have been suppressed by removing...determined to involve them in the same fate as the Talla Fiedra. They were all abandoned, and, as if the red-hot shot of the enemy did not do sufficient execution,... | |
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... that the attack would be crushing and invincible ; that the batteries were indestructible; " The progress of the conflagration was extremely inconsiderable. It was the same ball from which the smoke proceeded, at first from the outside, and afterwards... 