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... English writers ' - Mr . Gleig translated it from the French , added con- siderably to the text , and wrote a translator's preface to it , from which we have taken the above quotation . He tells us in that preface that the book of M ...
... English tactics was this , that whereas the French attacked in column , the English always attacked in line ; and that the real resistance to an attack by troops waiting for their adver- saries in line comes from the volume of fire with ...
... English Court , then resided . Our captain , M. de Langeron , entertained the Duke on board his vessel ; and as the sea was then calm , and he wished to give his guest some amusement , he proposed to him an excursion out to sea , to ...
... English frigate , entitle this action to an honourable place in the records of naval daring . 6 It was in the year 1708 , when the French galleys were employed by their government , then at war with this country , in cruising about the ...
... English crew , jumping on board with their cutlasses , cut down every one who came in their way , sparing only the unresisting galley - slaves . All that the French commander was able to do was to hoist , with his own hand , a signal of ...