Military Operations and Maritime Preponderance: Their Relations and InterdependenceW. Blackwood and Sons, 1905 - 473 pàgines |
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Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
Military Operations and Maritime Preponderance: Their Relations and ... Sir Charles Edward Callwell Visualització completa - 1905 |
Military Operations and Maritime Preponderance: Their Relations and ... Sir Charles Edward Callwell Visualització completa - 1905 |
Military Operations and Maritime Preponderance: Their Relations and ... Sir Charles Edward Callwell Visualització completa - 1905 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 153 - ... their Lordships by no means approve of the seamen being landed to form a part of an army to be employed in operations at a distance from the coast where, if they should have the misfortune to be defeated, they might be prevented from returning to the ships, and the squadron be thereby rendered so defective as to be no longer capable of performing the services required of it; and I have their Lordships' commands to signify their directions to your Lordship not to employ the seamen in like manner...
Pàgina 141 - ... and bluffs overlooking the harbor or into the interior, as shall best enable you to capture or destroy the garrison there and cover the navy as it sends its men in small boats to remove torpedoes, or, with the aid of the navy, capture or destroy the Spanish fleet now reported to be in Santiago harbor.
Pàgina 57 - If it is merely to assure one or more positions ashore, the navy becomes simply a branch of the army for a particular occasion, and subordinates its action accordingly; but if the true end is to preponderate over the enemy's navy and so control the sea, then the enemy's ships and fleets are the true objects to be assailed on all occasions.
Pàgina 163 - WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the law relating to the government of the navy, whereon, under the good Providence of God, the wealth, safety, and strength of the kingdom chiefly depend...
Pàgina 153 - Although in operations on the sea-coast, it may frequently be highly expedient to land a part of the seamen of the squadron, to co-operate with and to assist the army, when the situation will admit of their being immediately reembarked, if the squadron should be called away to act elsewhere...
Pàgina 57 - The French navy has always preferred the glory of assuring or preserving a conquest to that, more brilliant perhaps, but actually less real, of taking a few ships; and in that it has approached more nearly the true end to be proposed in war.
Pàgina 56 - Why then, take no note of him, but let him go ; and presently call the rest of the watch together, and thank God you are rid of a knave.
Pàgina 133 - Chafferult failed in their attempt to get into the harbor of Louisbourg, where inevitably they would have shared the fate of those that did, which must have given an irretrievable blow to the marine of France, and delivered Quebec into our hands, if we chose to go up and demand it.
Pàgina 417 - The horror of the night, the precipice scaled by Wolfe, the empire he with a handful of men added to England, and the glorious catastrophe of contentedly terminating life where his fame began Ancient story may be ransacked, and ostentatious philosophy thrown into the account, before an episode can be found to rank with Wolfe's.
Pàgina 202 - ... their progress to Rome and Naples. They had in Toulon thirteen ships actually ready for sea, and four or five more in great forwardness. Nelson thought that they would endeavour to bring back the ships from Cadiz, and probably also others from L'Orient or Brest. " We may fight their fleet," he wrote, "but unless we can destroy them, their transports will push on and effect their landing. What will the French care for the loss of a few men-of-war ? It is nothing, if they can get into Italy.