| 1809 - 596 pages
...avoided taking fire. At day-light the following morning, Lord Cochrance communicated to me by telegraph, that seven of the enemy's ships were on shore, and might be destroyed. I immediately made the signal for the fleet to unmoor and weigh, intending to proceed with it to effect... | |
| Benjamin Flower - 1809 - 646 pages
...avoided taking are» At daylight the following morning, Lord Cochrane communicated to ma by telegraph, that seven of the enemy's ships were on shore, and might be destroyed. I immediately made the signal for the fleet . to unmoor and weigh, intending to proceed with it to... | |
| 1809 - 1020 pages
...avoided taking fire. At daylight the following morning, Lord Cochrane communicated to me by telegraph, that seven of the enemy's ships were on shore, and might be destroyed. I immediately made the signal for the fleet tu unmoor and weigh, infendjng to proceed with it to effect... | |
| Archibald Duncan - 1809 - 412 pages
...avoided taking fire. At day light the following morning, Lord Cochrane communicated to me by telegraph, that seven of the enemy's ships were on shore, and might be destroyed. I immediately made the signal for the fleet to unmoor and weigh.—At twenty minutes past two, PM Lord... | |
| 1810 - 1214 pages
...avoided taking fire. At daylight the following morning, lord Cochrane communicated to me by telegraph, that seven of the enemy's ships were on shore, and might be destroyed. I immediately made the signal for the fleet to unmoor and weigh, intending to proceed with it to effect... | |
| 1811 - 718 pages
...Lord Cochrane. At day-light on the morning of the 12th hist, his lordship communicated by telegraph that seven of the enemy's ships were on shore, and might be destroyed ; upon which the fleet got under weigh, but the enemy had succeeded in getting all but five of the... | |
| 1811 - 854 pages
...practicable to get them off, and secure them up the river. A quarter before six Lord Cochrane made signal that seven of the enemy's ships were on shore and might be destroyed ; — presently, as he distinguished more clear|v, he discovered that they were all ashore except two,... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1811 - 1102 pages
...anchorage.* At daylight the following day lord Cochrane communicated to admiral lord Gambier by telegraph, that seven of the enemy's ships were on shore, and might be destroyed. The adiuiral immediately made the signal for the fleet to unmoor and weigh, intending to proceed with... | |
| John Campbell - 1817 - 562 pages
...avoided taking fire. " At daylight the following morning Lord Cochrane communicated to me by telegraph, that seven of the enemy's ships were on shore, and might be destroyed. I immediately made the signal for the fleet to unmoor and weigh, intending to proceed with it to effect... | |
| Edward Baines - 1818 - 746 pages
...in the morning of the 12th, Lord Gambier, in consequence of a signal from Lord Cochrane, announcing that seven of the enemy's ships were on shore, and might be destroyed, made the signal to unmoor and weigh, but the wind and tide being against him, the admiral was obliged... | |
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