 | Edward Baines - 1855 - 620 σελίδες
...discipline of the officers and men under his command, the gallant admiral, judging that the honour of his majesty's arms, and the circumstances of the...justifiable in departing from the regular system; and, passing through the enemy's fleet, in a line, formed with the utmost celerity, he attacked and... | |
 | Walter Vernon Anson - 1913 - 430 σελίδες
...and discipline of the officers and men I had the happiness to command, and judging that the honour of His Majesty's arms and the circumstances of the...seas required a considerable degree of enterprise, I felt myself justified in departing from the regular system ; and, passing through their fleet in... | |
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - 1918 - 662 σελίδες
...he knew well that it would be nobly understood" (Napier's Peninsular War). "Judging that the honour of his Majesty's arms, and the circumstances of the...seas, required a considerable degree of enterprise, I felt myself justified in departing from tha regular system" {Sir John Jervis's Report of the Battle... | |
 | Wilkinson Dent Bird - 1920 - 364 σελίδες
...Vincent because he felt that England was in need of a victory. After the battle he reported that judging "the circumstances of the war in these seas required a considerable degree of enterprise I felt myself justified in departing from the regular system." In 1809 it was open to Wellington, who... | |
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - 1987 - 660 σελίδες
...understood" (Napier's Peninsular War). ".lodging that the honour of his Majesty's arms, and the cireumstances of the war in these seas, required a considerable degree of enterprise, I felt myself justified in departing from the regnlar system " (Sir John Jervis's Report of the Battle... | |
 | Robert Huish - 1837 - 744 σελίδες
...fallen to leeward. Such a moment was not be lost, and the gallant admiral, judging that the honour of his Majesty's arms, and the circumstances of the...system. Accordingly, passing through the enemy's fleet ma line, he formed with the utmost alacrity — attacked — and thereby separated one-third of the... | |
 | Wilkinson Dent Bird - 1925 - 398 σελίδες
...Vincent because he felt that England was in need of a victory. After the battle he reported that judging "the circumstances of the war in these seas required a considerable degree of enterprise I felt myself justified in departing from the regular system." stood near Merida, or that under Soult... | |
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Majesty's arms, and the circumstances of the war in these •seas, required a considerable degree of enterprise, I felt myself justified in departing from the regular system... 
