| William James - 1826 - 606 Seiten
...saved the Culloden, when none that I know in the service would have attempted it : it is Troubridge whom I have left as myself at Naples ; he is, as a friend and as an officer, a nonpareil."* The East India company, with a proper sense of the benefit they derived from the Nile victory, made a present... | |
| William Jerdan - 1833 - 378 Seiten
...saved the Culloden, when none that I know in the service would have attempted it; it is Troubridge whom I have left as myself, at Naples: he is, as a friend and as an officer, a nonpareil." Well might the bravest sailor be consoled by such a tribute, for the regret he must have felt at being... | |
| Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1843 - 532 Seiten
...Having contributed materially to the success of that day, he was sent with eight ships of the line tp support Nelson in the Mediterranean. He was with the...which he had been engaged, to Sir Sidney Smith, and lie was subsequently engaged about the coast of Italy in co-operating with the Russians and Austrians,... | |
| William Freke Williams - 1854 - 818 Seiten
...saved the Culloden, when none that I know in the service would have attempted it: it is TTOU-. bridge whom I have left as myself at Naples ;— he is, as a friend and an officer, a nonpareil." — Clarke and M'Arthur's Life of Nelson. forms the inlet called the Gulf... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1900 - 874 Seiten
...saved the Culloden when none that I knew in the Service would have attempted it ; it is Troubridge whom I have left as myself at Naples ; he is, as a friend and an officer, a nonpareil.' Though the Nile medal was only granted to the captains of ships actually... | |
| Charles Knight - 1868 - 532 Seiten
...squadron BO soon at Syracuse ; it was Trowbridge who exerted himself after the action ; it was Trowbridgo who saved the Culloden, when none that I know in the...coast of Italy in co-operating with the Russians and Austriane, and reducing fortresses on the sea-coast. Among his achievements in that year was the capture... | |
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