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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1886. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... that she was in close action for 40 minutes before she received any support from the Belleisle: the Belleisle, on the other hand, has recorded that she was two cables astern of the Royal Sovereign, and began the action just one minute after her. The recorded differences in the interval between the Royal Sovereign's and the Victory's breaking through the enemy's line are equally great and more remarkable. They vary from two minutes to forty: probably 10, as recorded by the Britannia, Lord Northesk's flagship, is the nearest approach to correctness that can be made. We must however be content to recognise the fact that questions of exact time cannot possibly be answered; but that the Phoebe had made it noon by the sun (latitude 36 15') a few minutes before the Royal Sovereign began her work, and that some where about 5 the firing ceased. The exact wording of the celebrated telegraph has often been warmly and angrily discussed. It is not a question for discussion at all, but one of simple evidence. The Naiad and Euryalus, the repeating frigates, noted it in their log, and that they repeated it. Other ships also noted it. The Orion noted the code numbers. There is thus no possible doubt about the matter. The words were 1 England expects that every man will do his duty.' Many inaccurate versions were, of course, quoted from memory by the several officers of the fleet, and these have been repeated till people have begun to doubt whether they are not the real thing. The most extraordinary, and in a way, the best authenticated of all of these is the inscription on a ring which belonged to Collingwood and was presumably engraved by his order. It reads: 'England expects everything: men, do your duty.' Whether this version is Collingwood's or not, it is very certainl...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781150149573
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 204
  • Spine Width: 11 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150149574
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 372 gr


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