second ahead and astern. Nelson, certain of a triumphant issue to the day, asked Blackwood what he ...
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doesn't count). He is untrained, inept, but he will fill the place and draw the pay. Now, God and ...
impossible. My back is shot through. Beatty will tell you so." Captain Hardy then, once more, shook...
We returned from The Dalles to Portland by the way we had come, the steamer stopping en route to pi...
body, that in the course of nature he might have attained, like his father, to a good old age. Yet ...
American Notes by Rudyard Kipling Introduction In an issue of the London World in April, 1890, th...
"Because they would die," I said. It was exactly like talking to a child--a very rude little child....
and they agreed that the armistice should continue fourteen weeks; and that, at its termination, fo...
Nelson wrote to the emperor, proposing to wait on him personally and congratulate him on his access...
midnight; but, owing to the darkness, and tide and half-tide, which must always make night attacks ...
Sir Hyde; and the next day addressed a letter to him, worthy of himself and of the occasion. Mr. Va...
justice done her by the government, as he knew what she had done for her country. He left him her p...
to action, was, to attack the head of their line and confuse their movements. "Close with a Frenchm...
would be an active scene. Nelson well understood the character of the perfidious Corsican, who was ...
cowardly in him to leave Nelson to bear the whole shame of the failure, if shame it should be deeme...