Life of Admiral Sir Charles Saunders, K.B.Pitman, 1914 - 242 páginas |
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... Navy Gazette in 1909 , that no authentic biography of Sir Charles Saunders has ever been written . " It is not at all curious if one bears in mind the great difficulty of gathering continuous data , and the certainty that the discharge ...
... Navy Gazette in 1909 , that no authentic biography of Sir Charles Saunders has ever been written . " It is not at all curious if one bears in mind the great difficulty of gathering continuous data , and the certainty that the discharge ...
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... the crowded gallery of national and Imperial portraits is little room for men of lesser renown . 1 Firth , Naval Songs and Ballads , Navy Records Society . The exceptions are the great failures , the Pelhams , I INTRODUCTION.
... the crowded gallery of national and Imperial portraits is little room for men of lesser renown . 1 Firth , Naval Songs and Ballads , Navy Records Society . The exceptions are the great failures , the Pelhams , I INTRODUCTION.
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... navy in the eighteenth century , and the improvements which he and one or two others managed to effect in the relations of the sister services by a proper recognition that army and navy are jointly necessary to the security of an Empire ...
... navy in the eighteenth century , and the improvements which he and one or two others managed to effect in the relations of the sister services by a proper recognition that army and navy are jointly necessary to the security of an Empire ...
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... navy itself was a very rough , at times almost a barbarous school , and though the century was one of invention and progress , both in the construction of ships and the science of navigation , its records , brilliant in their sum , are ...
... navy itself was a very rough , at times almost a barbarous school , and though the century was one of invention and progress , both in the construction of ships and the science of navigation , its records , brilliant in their sum , are ...
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... navy was reduced almost to vanishing point , and in war time every one capable of walking was liable to be seized for a service which he did not understand , and often was absolutely unfitted for . Even crip- ples were pressed in order ...
... navy was reduced almost to vanishing point , and in war time every one capable of walking was liable to be seized for a service which he did not understand , and often was absolutely unfitted for . Even crip- ples were pressed in order ...
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