Life of Admiral Sir Charles Saunders, K.B.

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Pitman, 1914 - 242 páginas

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Página 128 - I am sensible of my own errors in the course of the campaign, see clearly wherein I have been deficient, and think a little more or less blame to a man that must necessarily be ruined, of little or no consequence. I take the blame of that unlucky day entirely upon my own shoulders, and I expect to suffer for it.
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