would be an active scene. Nelson well understood the character of the perfidious Corsican, who was ...
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cowardly in him to leave Nelson to bear the whole shame of the failure, if shame it should be deeme...
Nelson was dissatisfied with himself, and therefore weary of the world. This feeling he now frequen...
having sent so young an officer upon so important a service. Baffled in his pursuit, he returned to...
to send them, hostages and all, to Old Nick, and surprise him with a group of nobility and republic...
remember it. Captain Hallowell, in the SWIFTSURE, as he was bearing down, fell in with what seemed ...
What this general thought it imprudent to attempt, Nelson and Troubridge effected without his assis...
Buonaparte had never yet had to contend with an English officer, and he would endeavour to make him...
not submit patiently, and that he was a broken-hearted man. From the time of his return from Egypt,...
ready for you in my house, and Emma is looking out for the softest pillows to repose the few wearie...
of Naples pretended to claim. The Maltese, whom the villanous knights of their order had betrayed t...
sake of saving the capital, signed an armistice, by which the greater part of the kingdom was given...
Lord Hood had now returned to England, and the command devolved on Admiral Hotham. The affairs of t...
selves than to their enemies. So rapid was the conflagration, that the French in their official acc...
to the want of assistance from the AGAMEMNON. Had the force for which Nelson applied been given him...