 | Archibald Duncan - 1806 - 380 pages
...such a manner as to make the business decisive, I have therefore made up my mind to keep the fleet in that position of sailing, (with the exception of...command), that the order of sailing is to be the order of the battle ; placing the fleet in two tines, of sixteen ships each, with au advanced squadron of eight... | |
 | James Harrison (biographer of Nelson.) - 1806 - 522 pages
...a manner as to make the business decisive ; I have, therefore, made up my rnind, to keep the fleet in that position of sailing, with the exception of...command, that the order of sailing is to be the order of the battle : placing the fleet in two lines, of sixteen ships each, with an advanced squadron of eight... | |
 | sir William Beatty - 1807 - 114 pages
...such a manner as to make the business decisive, I have therefore made up my mind to keep the Fleet in that position of sailing, with the exception of...the order of sailing is to be the order of battle : pla'cingthe Fleet in two lines, of sixteen ships each with an advanced squadron of eight of the •... | |
 | Edward Pelham Brenton - Great Britain - 1824 - 588 pages
...such a manner as to make the business decisive, I have, therefore, made up my mind to keep the fleet in that position of sailing, with the exception of...the order of battle, placing the fleet in two lines, sixteen ships each, with an advanced squadron of eight of the fastest sailing two-decked ships, which... | |
 | William James - Great Britain - 1837 - 408 pages
...such a manner as to make the business decisive ; I have therefore made up my mind to keep the fleet in that position of sailing (with the exception of...order of battle; placing the fleet in two lines of 16 ships each, with an advanced squadron of eight of the fastest sailing two-decked ships : which will... | |
 | Edward Pelham Brenton - Great Britain - 1837 - 778 pages
...such a manner as to make the business decisive, I have, therefore, made up my mind to keep the fleet in that position of sailing, with the exception of...the order of battle, placing the fleet in two lines, 16 ships each, with an advanced squadron of eight of the fastest sailing * He was tubpcenaed as a witness... | |
 | George Lillie Craik, Charles MacFarlane - Great Britain - 1844 - 928 pages
...engraven on the memory of every true British sailor. The order of sailing was to be the order of battle : the fleet in two lines of sixteen ships each, with...of eight of the fastest sailing two-decked ships. The second in command, having the entire direction of his line, was to break through the enemy about... | |
 | William Freke Williams - 1854 - 818 pages
...such a manner as to make the business decisive, I have, therefore, made ap my mind to keep the fleet in that position of sailing (with the exception of...the order of battle, placing the fleet in two lines, sixteen ships each, with an advanced squadron of eight of the fastest sailing two-decked ships, which... | |
 | William James - 1859 - 548 pages
...such a manner as to make the business decisive ; I have therefore made up my mind to keep the fleet in that position of sailing (with the exception of...order of battle ; placing the fleet in two lines of 16 ships each, with an advanced squadron of eight of the fastest sailing two-decked ships : which will... | |
 | James Harman Ward - 1859 - 152 pages
...to make the business decisive, I have made up my mind to keep the fleet in that position of sailing, that the order of sailing is to be the order of battle, placing the fleet in two lines, sixteen ships in each line, with an advanced squadron of eight of the fastest sailing two-decked ships... | |
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Line of Battle in variable winds, thick weather, and other circumstances which must occur, without such a loss of time that the opportunity would probably be lost of bringing the Enemy to Battle in such a manner as to make the business decisive, I have... 
