The History of England from The Revolution to the Death of George the Second: (designed as a Continuation of Mr. Hume's History) : in Five Volumes |
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Page 79
... captains and officers , with a detachment of marines , attended this folemnity in the harbour , which was alfo crowded with an infinite number of other boats and veffels filled with fpectators . About noon , the Admiral having taken ...
... captains and officers , with a detachment of marines , attended this folemnity in the harbour , which was alfo crowded with an infinite number of other boats and veffels filled with fpectators . About noon , the Admiral having taken ...
Page 90
... Captains had a -JII . fignal thrown out to give chace . Admiral Knowles , when too late , ordered the Magnanime , Captain Howe , and Torbay , Captain Keppel , on that fer- vice , and thereby retarded the attack upon which he was ...
... Captains had a -JII . fignal thrown out to give chace . Admiral Knowles , when too late , ordered the Magnanime , Captain Howe , and Torbay , Captain Keppel , on that fer- vice , and thereby retarded the attack upon which he was ...
Page 96
... to Sir Edward Hawke by Admiral Broderick , and the Captains of men of war fent to found the French fhore from Rochelle to fort Fouras , dated September the twenty- VII . 1757 . twenty - ninth ; the refult 96 HISTORY OF ENGLAND .
... to Sir Edward Hawke by Admiral Broderick , and the Captains of men of war fent to found the French fhore from Rochelle to fort Fouras , dated September the twenty- VII . 1757 . twenty - ninth ; the refult 96 HISTORY OF ENGLAND .
Page 99
... Captains who had been out to found and reconnoitre , a council of war was fummoned and held on the twenty - fifth , in which it was unanimously refolved not to land , as the at- tempt on Rochefort was neither advisable nor prac- ticable ...
... Captains who had been out to found and reconnoitre , a council of war was fummoned and held on the twenty - fifth , in which it was unanimously refolved not to land , as the at- tempt on Rochefort was neither advisable nor prac- ticable ...
Page 103
... Captain Lockhart , for which he was honoured with a variety of prefents of plate by several corporations , in teftimony of their efteem and regard . This run of good fortune was not , however , without fome retribution on the fide of ...
... Captain Lockhart , for which he was honoured with a variety of prefents of plate by several corporations , in teftimony of their efteem and regard . This run of good fortune was not , however , without fome retribution on the fide of ...
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