... frigates, and a multitude of smaller vessels. The navies of the other European powers, France, Holland, Spain, and Denmark, were almost annihilated during the same period, so that the aggregate of their losses must have many times exceeded that of... New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register - Page 413edited by - 1832Full view - About this book
| English literature - 1832 - 574 pages
...ships of the line went to the bottom in the space of twenty-two years, besides seven 50-gun ships, 06 frigates, and a multitude of smaller vessels. The...what most people would have supposed. To this immense loss of ships of war and of commerce, the imagination must be left to supply the incalculable amount... | |
| Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1832 - 368 pages
...line went to the bottom in the space of twenty-two years, besides seven fiftygun ships, eighty-six frigates, and a multitude of smaller vessels. The...their losses must have many times exceeded that of Great Britain. In every one of these ships were batteries of cannon constructed of iron or brass, whereof... | |
| Books - 1832 - 650 pages
...line went to the bottom in the space of twenty-two years, besides seven fifty-gun ships, eighty-six frigates, and a multitude of smaller vessels. The...their losses must have many times exceeded that of Great Britain. In everyone of these ships were batteries of cannon constructed of iron or brass, whereof... | |
| 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 - 1832 - 618 pages
...line went to the bottom in the space of twenty-two years, besides seven fifty-gun ships, eighty-six frigates, and a multitude of smaller vessels. The...their losses must have many times exceeded that of Great Britain. In every one of these ships were batteries of cannon constructed of iron or brass, whereof... | |
| 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 - 1832 - 614 pages
...line went to the bottom in the space of twenty-two years, besides seven fifty-gun ships, eighty-six frigates, and a multitude of smaller vessels. The...their losses must have many times exceeded that of Great Britain. In every one of these ships were batteries of cannon constructed of iron or brass, whereof... | |
| William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1832 - 824 pages
...Europe, 32 British ships of the line went down to the bottom In the space of 22 years, besides 7 30-gun ships, 86 frigates, and a multitude of smaller vessels....European powers France, Holland, Spain, and Denmark, were almoAt annihilated during the same period, so that the aggregate of their losses must have many times... | |
| 1832 - 548 pages
...frisat<«. ard a multitude ol smaller vessels. The navies of the other European poxers, Fmice, llollnnd, Spain, and Denmark, were almost annihilated during the same period, so that the aggrenate of their losses must have many times exceeded that of ihe kingdom of Great Biitain. These... | |
| William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1833 - 850 pages
...British ships of the line went down to the bottom in the space of 22 years, beside« 7 50-gun ships, 8fi frigates, and a multitude of smaller vessels. The...what most people would have supposed. To this immense loss of ships of war and of commerce, the imagination must be left to supply the incalculable amount... | |
| Edward Nares - Bible and geology - 1834 - 366 pages
...line went to the bottom in the space of twenty-two years, besides seven fifty guns ships, eighty-six frigates, and a multitude of smaller vessels. The...their losses must have many times exceeded that of Great Britain. In every one of these ships were batteries of cannon constructed of iron and brass,... | |
| Anthologies - 1834 - 506 pages
...line went to the bottom in the course of twenty-two years, besides seven fifty-gun ships, eighty-six frigates, and a multitude of smaller vessels. The...the aggregate of their losses must have many times ex- • ceeded that of Great Britain. In every one of these ships were batteries of cannon, constructed... | |
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