Colburn's United Service Magazine and Naval Military Journal, 148. kötetH. Colburn, 1878 |
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... Critical Notices Obituary Promotions and Appointments 359 , 480 365 381 386 438 442 453 470 • 491 499 248 • 112 , 255 , 514 113 , 256 , 516 • 114 , 257 , 390 , 517 COLBURN'S UNITED SERVICE MAGAZINE . EUROPEAN SHIPS OF WAR . iv CONTENTS .
... Critical Notices Obituary Promotions and Appointments 359 , 480 365 381 386 438 442 453 470 • 491 499 248 • 112 , 255 , 514 113 , 256 , 516 • 114 , 257 , 390 , 517 COLBURN'S UNITED SERVICE MAGAZINE . EUROPEAN SHIPS OF WAR . iv CONTENTS .
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... appointed to consider that subject . Anyone who will compare the remarks of the anonymous English editor with the Committee's Report cannot fail to be convinced of the inaccurate rendering given of their main conclusion respecting that ...
... appointed to consider that subject . Anyone who will compare the remarks of the anonymous English editor with the Committee's Report cannot fail to be convinced of the inaccurate rendering given of their main conclusion respecting that ...
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... appointed as the day for their hostile meeting , and the place of encounter was selected at a point midway in the Channel , almost within sight of both countries . The strength of the champion fleets , we are told , was not limited ...
... appointed as the day for their hostile meeting , and the place of encounter was selected at a point midway in the Channel , almost within sight of both countries . The strength of the champion fleets , we are told , was not limited ...
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... appointed to companies in the regiment on its formation was Captain Rowland Hill , afterwards General Lord Hill , whose ... appointment as captain ( from lieutenant 53rd Foot ) : " I raised an Independant company , and on March 23rd this ...
... appointed to companies in the regiment on its formation was Captain Rowland Hill , afterwards General Lord Hill , whose ... appointment as captain ( from lieutenant 53rd Foot ) : " I raised an Independant company , and on March 23rd this ...
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... appointments . " · It was during this month , if we mistake not , that the regiment , or rather certain detachments of it , received the baptism of fire . On 30th May , the ' Triumph ' and ' Brunswick ' sailed from Spithead with a ...
... appointments . " · It was during this month , if we mistake not , that the regiment , or rather certain detachments of it , received the baptism of fire . On 30th May , the ' Triumph ' and ' Brunswick ' sailed from Spithead with a ...
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351. oldal - The United Company of Merchants trading to the East Indies.
46. oldal - In this perplexity, the genius of Mahomet conceived and executed a plan of a bold and marvellous cast, of transporting by land his lighter vessels and military stores from the Bosphorus into the higher part of the harbour.
184. oldal - Armies neither fly, nor run post," saith a marshal of France. And I know it to be true, that a fleet of ships may be seen at sunset, and after it, at the Lizard; yet by the next morning they may recover Portland; whereas an army of foot shall not be able to march it in six days.
200. oldal - The people of the island report that at a certain season of the year, an extraordinary kind of bird, which they call a rukh, makes its appearance from the southern region. In form it is said to resemble the eagle, but it is incomparably greater in size; being so large and strong as to seize an elephant with its talons, and to lift it into the air, from whence it lets it fall to the ground, in order that when dead it may prey upon the carcase.
139. oldal - ... at a rate that seems swifter than the wind : the horsemen are instantly at full speed, having slipped the dogs. If it is a single deer, they at the same time fly the hawks ; but if a herd, they wait till the dogs have fixed on a particular antelope.
46. oldal - Fourscore light galleys and brigantines of fifty and thirty oars were disembarked on the Bosphorus shore, arranged successively on rollers, and drawn forwards by the power of men and pulleys.
77. oldal - That the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with the consent of Parliament, is against law.
140. oldal - Cherkh (the same which is flown at the antelope), attacks them on the ground, but will not follow them on the wing; for this reason, the Bhyree, a hawk well known in India, is flown the moment the Hubara rises.
137. oldal - It is a strange thing that in sea voyages, where there is nothing to be seen but sky and sea, men should make diaries ; but in land travel, wherein so much is to be observed, for the most part they omit it, as if chance were fitter to be registered than observation.
34. oldal - That, tost amid the floating fragments, moors Beneath the shelter of an icy isle, While night o'erwhelms the sea, and horror looks More horrible. Can human force endure Th...