A History of Sea Power

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G. H. Doran Company, 1920 - Naval history - 458 pages
 

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Page 330 - to preserve Chinese territorial and administrative entity . . . and safeguard for the world the principle of equal and impartial trade with all parts of the Chinese Empire.
Page 256 - He also observed, I believe to Captain Foley, 'You know, Foley, I have only one eye—I have a right to be blind sometimes' ; and then with an archness peculiar to his character, putting the glass to his blind eye, he exclaimed,
Page 183 - what mighty things they could do if they were resolved, and taught them to fight in fire as well as on water. And though he hath been very well imitated and followed, he was the
Page 424 - liners wilL not be sunk without warning and without safety of the lives of non-combatants, provided that the liners do not try to escape or offer resistance.
Page 183 - He was the first that infused that proportion of courage into the seamen by making them see what mighty things they could do if they were resolved, and taught them to fight in fire as well as
Page 166 - with a joyful and a quiet mind, for that I have ended my life as a good soldier ought to do, who has fought for his country and his queen, his honor and
Page 18 - the beach, leave them, and returning aboard their ships, raise a great smoke. The natives, when they see the smoke, come down to the shore, and laying out to view so much gold as they think the wares to be worth, withdraw to a distance. The Carthaginians upon this come ashore and look. If they think the gold enough, they take it
Page 182 - had long been in practice, to keep his ships and men out of danger, which had been held in former times a point of great ability and circumspection, as if the principal
Page 316 - Spain, your duty will be to see that Spanish squadron does not leave the Asiatic coast, and then offensive operations in the Philippine Islands.
Page 415 - The Second in Command will . . . have the entire direction of his line to make the attack upon the enemy, and to follow up the blow until they are captured or destroyed.

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