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A Selection from the Public and Private Correspondence of Vice-Admiral Lord ... - Page 50
by Cuthbert Collingwood Baron Collingwood, George Lewis Newnham Collingwood - 1828
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 37

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1828 - 626 pages
...from deck to deck at the point of their swords. They at last both surrendered ; and the commodore, on the quarter-deck of a Spanish first-rate, San Josef,...twenty-two sail of their line were still within gun-shot.' — p. 32. Nor was Nelson backward in acknowledging the services and gallant conduct of his friend...
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Quarterly Review, Volume 37, Issue 73

1828 - 598 pages
...from deck to deck at the point of their swords. They at last both surrendered ; and the commodore, on the quarter-deck of a Spanish first-rate, San Josef,...twenty-two sail of their line were still within gun-shot.' — p. 32. Nor was Nelson backward in acknowledging the services and gallant conduct of his friend...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 37

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1828 - 608 pages
...from deck to deck at the point of their swords. They at last both surrendered ; and the commodore, on the quarter-deck of a Spanish first-rate, San Josef,...swords of the officers of the two ships, while one cf his sailors bundled them up with as much composure as he would have made a faggot, though twenty-two...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 37

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1828 - 608 pages
...from deck to deck at the point of their 'swords. They at last both surrendered ; and the commodore, on the quarter-deck of a Spanish first-rate, San Josef, received the submission an<J the swords of the officers of the two ships, while one of his sailors bundled them up with as...
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Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, ed. by G. G. Cunningham, Volume 11

Englishmen - 1836 - 258 pages
...from deck to deck at the point of their swords. They at last both surrendered ; and the commodore, on the quarterdeck of a Spanish first-rate, San Josef,...twenty-two sail of their line were still within gun-shot." The Excellent was paid off in January, 1799 ; but in a few weeks after Captain Collingwood was raised...
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Tales of the wars; or, Naval and military chronicle

1836 - 884 pages
...coolness, put them under his arm ; " bundling them up," in the lively expression of Collingwood, " with as much composure as he would have made a faggot,...twenty-two sail of their line were still within gun-shot." One of his sailors came up, and, with an Englishman's feeling, took him by the hand, saying, he might...
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Memoirs of the Life of Vice-Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1

Thomas Joseph Pettigrew - Admirals - 1849 - 572 pages
...Spaniards from deck to deck at the point of their swords. They at last both surrendered; and the Commodore, on the quarter-deck of a Spanish first-rate, San Josef,...officers of the two ships, while one of his sailors, (William Fearney, one of Nelson's bargemen) bundled them up with as much composure as he would have...
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Life of ... William Pitt, Volume 3

Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1862 - 510 pages
...does Collingwood describe the scene : — " The Commodore, on the quarterdeck of a Spanish first-rate, received the submission and the swords of the officers of the two vessels. One of his sailors (William Fearney by name) bundled up the swords with as much composure...
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Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Volume 3

Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1867 - 496 pages
...does Collingwood describe the scene : — " The Commodore, on the quarterdeck of a Spanish first-rate, received the submission and the swords of the officers of the two vessels. One of his sailors (William Fearney by name) bundled up the swords with as much composure...
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The life of Nelson. With illustr. by Westall

Robert Southey - 1878 - 238 pages
...utmost coolness, put them under his arm; "bundling them up," in the lively expression of Collingwood, " with as much composure as he would have made a faggot,...twenty-two sail of their line were still within gun-shot." One of his sailors came up, and, with an Englishman's feeling, took him by the hand saying, he might...
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