“Captain Harte was a little man, with a certain resemblance to Lord St. Vincent, a resemblance that he did his best to increase by stooping, by being savagely rude to his subordinates and by the […]
“And on the last Friday of all, the day I was there, Old Jarvie winked his eye, said ‘You want to go to sea? Then to sea you shall go, sir,’ and had him pressed […]
Captain Robert Calder of HMS Victory arrived at the Admiralty on March 8th 1797 with dispatches from Admiral Sir John Jervis: Victory, in Lagos Bay, February 16th, 1797. Sir, The hopes of falling in with […]
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