 | Horatio Nelson (1st visct.) - 1845 - 560 pagine
...Village, I am. told, for I have not set my foot out of the Victory, contains forty or fifty small houses. As to Malta, it is a perfectly useless place for Great...much sooner undertake to answer for the Toulon Fleet from St. Helens, than from Malta; I never dare venture to carry the Fleet there. I know your friends... | |
 | Desmond Gregory - 1996 - 380 pagine
...its distance from those areas where the Fleet was normally operating. Nelson wrote to Fremantle in 1804: As to Malta, it is a perfectly useless place...much sooner undertake to answer for the Toulon fleet from St. Helen's, than from Malta. I never dare venture to convey the Fleet there. I know your friends... | |
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... assuredly rejoice to have you here, but we none of us see the inside of a Port: I have twice taken shelter under the Madalena Islands on the North end of Sardinia, which form a very fine anchorage. The Village, I am told, for I have not set my foot... 