 | 1764 - 666 Seiten
...one Lieutenant, and 39 Seamen and Marines killed, and about 102 wounded. When I confider the Seafon of the Year, the hard Gales on the Day of AcTion, a flying Enemy, the Shortnefs of 'he Day, and the Coaft we are on, J can boldly affirm, that all that could poftibly he... | |
 | John Charnock - 1796 - 454 Seiten
...thirty-nine feamen and marines killed, and about two hundred and two wounded. When I confidered the feafon of the year, the hard gales on the day of action, a flying enemy, the fhormefs of the day, and the coaft we were on, I can boldly affirm, that all that could poffibly be... | |
 | 1843 - 632 Seiten
...ships which had the good fortune to come up with the enemy. ' When I consider,' says the Admiral, ' the ' season of the year, the hard gales on the day of action, a fly' ing enemy, the shortness of the day, and the coast we are on, * I can boldly affirm, that all... | |
 | Arthur Collins, Sir Egerton Brydges - 1812 - 598 Seiten
...find only one Lieutenant, and 39 seamen and marines killed, and about 202 wounded. When I consider the season of the year, the hard gales on the day...enemy, the shortness of the day, and the coast we are on, I can boldly affirm, that all that could possibly be done, has been done. As to the loss we... | |
 | Arthur Collins - 1812 - 692 Seiten
...find only one Lieutenant, and 39 seamen and marines killed, and about 202 wounded. When I consider the season of the year, the hard gales on the day...enemy, the shortness of the day, and the coast we are on, I can boldly affirm, that all that could possibly be done, has been done. As to the loss we... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 510 Seiten
...lieutenant and thirty-nine seamen and marines killed, and about two hundred and two wounded. When I consider the season of the year, the hard gales on the day...day, and the coast we were on, I can boldly affirm, thai all that could possibly be done has been done. As to the loss we have sustained, let it be placed... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1838 - 604 Seiten
...ballad upon the Royal George. Hawke, in his despatches, said of this signal victory, 'When I consider the season of the year, the hard gales on the day...we were on, I can boldly affirm that all that could be done, was done. Had we had but two hours more daylight, the whole of the enemy's force had been... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1838 - 594 Seiten
...ballad upon the Royal George. Hawke, in his dispatches, said of this signal victory, ' When I consider the season of the year, the hard gales on the day...we were on, I can boldly affirm that all that could be done, was done. Had we had but two hours more daylight, the whole of the enemy's force had been... | |
 | John Campbell - 1841 - 604 Seiten
...morning, prevented from getting up. Our loss by the enemy is not considerable, for in the ships which are now with me, I find only one lieutenant and thirty-nine...of the year, the hard gales on the day of action, a firing enemy, the shortness of the day, and the coast we were on, I can boldly affirm, that all that... | |
 | THE EDINBURGH REVIEW OR CRITICAL JOURNAL - 1843 - 672 Seiten
...ships which had the good fortune to come up with the enemy. ' When I consider,' says the Admiral, ' the ' season of the year, the hard gales on the day of action, a fly' ing enemy, the shortness of the day, and the coast we are on, ' I can boldly affirm, that all... | |
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When I consider the season of the year, the hard gales on the day of action, a flying enemy, the shortness of the day, and the coast they were on, I can boldly affirm that all that could possibly be done has been done. 
