 | 1843 - 632 pages
...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 that could possibly be done has ' been done. On the weather moderating, Sir Edward Hawke placed a squadron of eight sail of the line and three frigates,... | |
 | Arthur Collins - 1812 - 692 pages
...seamen and marines killed, and about 202 wounded. 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 we are on, I can boldly affirm, that all that could possibly be done, has been done. As to the loss we... | |
 | Arthur Collins, Sir Egerton Brydges - Aristocracy (Social class) - 1812 - 598 pages
...seamen and marines killed, and about 202 wounded. 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 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 pages
...killed, and about two hundred and two wounded. When I consider the season of the year, the hard gales on the day of action, a flying enemy, the shortness...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 - American periodicals - 1838 - 604 pages
...his despatches, said of this signal victory, 'When I consider the season of the year, the hard gales on the day of action, a flying enemy, the shortness...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) - English literature - 1838 - 594 pages
...his dispatches, said of this signal victory, ' When I consider the season of the year, the hard gales on the day of action, a flying enemy, the shortness...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... | |
 | THE EDINBURGH REVIEW OR CRITICAL JOURNAL - 1843 - 672 pages
...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 that could possibly be done has ' been done.' On the weather moderating, Sir Edward Hawke placed a squadron of eight sail of the line and three frigates,... | |
 | Learned institutions and societies - 1870 - 672 pages
...at in the morning, prevented from getting up. 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 wo wore on, I can boldly affirm, that all that could possibly be done, has been done. Had w« had but... | |
 | Montagu Burrows - 1883 - 544 pages
...killed, and about two hundred and twenty wounded. 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. As to the loss... | |
 | William Henry Fitchett - Battles - 1898 - 392 pages
...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." History confirms that judgment. There is no other record of a great sea-fight fought under conditions... | |
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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. 
