 | 1810 - 492 pages
...ensued on the occasion, he sent for a candle to the cockpit, and affixed a larger seal than usual. " Vice Admiral Lord Nelson has been commanded to spare...covered her shores has struck to the British flag. Let the firing cease then, that he may take possession of his prizes, or he will blow them into the... | |
 | Arthur Collins - 1812 - 766 pages
...prizes. This was the address to the Crown Prince: " To the brothers of Englishmen, the brave Danes. Vice- Admiral Lord Nelson has been commanded to spare...covered her shores, has struck to the British flag. Let the firing cease then, that he may take possession of his prizes, or he will blow them into the... | |
 | Arthur Collins, Sir Egerton Brydges - Aristocracy (Social class) - 1812 - 748 pages
...was the address to the Crown Prince: " To the brothers of Englishmen, the brave Danes. Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson has been commanded to spare Denmark, when...covered her shores, has struck to the British flag. Let the firing cease then, that he may take possession of his prizes, or he will blow them into the... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1813 - 306 pages
...crown prinee : ** Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson has been comf« manded to spare Denmark, when she no M 2 " longer resists. The line of defence which •• covered...struck to the " British flag : but if the firing is conti•' nucd on the part of Denmark, he must « set on fire all the prizes that he has taken, " without... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1814 - 322 pages
...stern gallery, and wrote thus to the crown prince : " Vice" Admiral Lord Nelson has been com" manded to spare Denmark, when she no " longer resists. The...defence which " covered her shores has struck to the Bri" tish flag : but if the firing is continued on " the part of Denmark, he must set on fire " all... | |
 | 1840 - 506 pages
...the commander-in-chief to settl' the terms, in reply to Lord Nelson's celebrated note ' Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson has been commanded to spare Denmark when she no longer resists. The line o defence which covered her shores has struck to the British flag ; but if the firing is continued... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1835 - 830 pages
...extremity, Nelson retired into the stern gallery, and wrote to the crown prince in these terms : " Lord Nelson has been commanded to spare Denmark when...which covered her shores has struck to the British Neison.i flag ; but if the firing is continued on the part of j Denmark, he must set fire to all the... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Nelson (Viscount), Matthew Henry Barker - 1836 - 500 pages
...retired to the stern gallery, and there wrote with the greatest despatch the following : " Vice-admiral Lord Nelson has been commanded to spare Denmark when...covered her shores has struck to the British flag. Let the firing cease then, that he may take possession of his prizes, or he will blow them into the... | |
 | 1838 - 120 pages
...occasion, he sent for a candle to the cockpit, and affixed a larger seal than usual : — " ' Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson has been commanded to spare Denmark, when...covered her shores has struck to the British flag. Let the firing cease then, that he may take possession of his prizes, or he will blow them into the... | |
 | Margaret Fraser Tytler - Courage - 1838 - 344 pages
...dispatched a young aid-de-camp with a flag of truce, to bear to the Prince of Denmark this note. " Admiral Lord Nelson has been commanded to spare Denmark, when she no longer resists. All your ships have struck, yielding themselves to the British flag; but if the firing continues on... | |
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Lord Nelson has been commanded to spare Denmark, when she no longer resists. The line of defence which covered her shores has struck to the British flag : but if the firing is continued on the part of 20 Denmark, he must set on fire all the prizes that... 
