 | Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne - 1836 - 490 σελίδες
...English, and an hour afterwards, a part of the French squadron was set on fire. Nine seventy-four gun ships and four frigates or corvettes became a prey...that the English would blow up Fort La Malgue, but it appeared that they had not time to do so. The Commandant of artillery then went to Malbosquet. The... | |
 | Marie Joseph L. Adolphe Thiers - 1838 - 516 σελίδες
...part of the French squadron was set on fire. Nine 74-gun ships, and four frigates or corvettes, fell a prey to the flames. The fire and smoke from the...many hours, and formed an unparalleled spectacle. During all this time the batteries of I'Egnillette and Balaguier kept up an incessant fire on the vessels... | |
 | Adolphe Thiers, Frederic Shoberl - 1840 - 492 σελίδες
...were burning in the road, wore like so many magnificent displays of fireworks. The masts and form8 of the vessels were distinctly marked by the blaze,...many hours, and formed an unparalleled spectacle. During all this time the batteries of 1'Eguillette and Balaguier kept up alj incessant fire on the... | |
 | Adolphe Thiers, Frederic Shoberl - 1844 - 478 σελίδες
...part of the French squadron was set on fire. Nine 74-gun ships, and four frigates or corvettes, fell a prey to the flames. The fire and smoke from the...the blaze, which lasted many hours, and formed an unparallelled spectacle. During all this time the batteries of 1'Eguillette and Balaguier kept up an... | |
 | Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne - 1846 - 616 σελίδες
...English, and an hour afterwards a part of the French squadron was set on fire. Nine seventy-four gun ships and four frigates or corvettes became a prey...that the English would blow up Fort La Malgue, but it appeared that they had not time to do so. The Commandant of artillery then went to Malbosquet. The... | |
 | John Holland Rose - 1901 - 1060 σελίδες
...resembled the eruption of a volcano, and the thirteen vessels blazing in the roads were like so many displays of fireworks : the masts and forms of the vessels were distinctly traced out by the flames, which lasted many hours and formed an unparalleled spectacle."1 The sight... | |
 | John Holland Rose - 1901 - 576 σελίδες
...resembled the eruption of a volcano, and the thirteen vessels blazing in the roads were like so many displays of fireworks : the masts and forms of the vessels were distinctly traced out by the flames, which lasted many hours and formed an unparalleled spectacle." 1 The sight... | |
 | Margaret Bertha Synge - 1903 - 258 σελίδες
...arsenal resembled the eruption of a volcano, and the vessels blazing in the roads were like so many displays of fireworks. The masts and forms of the vessels were distinctly traced out by the flames, which lasted many hours, and presented an unparalleled spectacle." So he... | |
 | M. B. Synge - 2013 - 249 σελίδες
...arsenal resembled the eruption of a volcano, and the vessels blazing in the roads were like so many displays of fireworks. The masts and forms of the vessels were distinctly traced out by the flames, which lasted many hours, and presented an unparalleled spectacle." So he... | |
 | Noel Mostert - 2008 - 800 σελίδες
...resembled the eruption of a volcano, and the thirteen vessels blazing in the roads were like so many displays of fireworks: the masts and forms of the vessels were distinctly traced out by the flames, which lasted many hours and formed an unparalleled spectacle.' As the inner... | |
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Nine seventy-four gun ships and four frigates or corvettes became a prey to the flames. The fire and smoke from the arsenal resembled the eruption of a volcano, and the thirteen vessels which were burning in the road were like so many magnificent displays... 