 | Robert Southey - Sailors - 1907 - 102 pages
...prayer, that the 10 British fleet might be distinguished by humanity in the victory which he expected. Setting an example himself, he twice gave orders to cease firing upon the Redoutable, supposing that she had struck, because her great guns were silent; for, as she carried... | |
 | Grenville Kleiser - Oratory - 1908 - 452 pages
...prayer that the British fleet might be distinguished by humanity in the victory which he expected. Setting an example himself, he twice gave orders to cease firing upon the Redoubtable, supposing that she had struck, because her great guns were silent; for, as he carried no flag, there was no means... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton - Readers - 1908 - 352 pages
...prayer, that the British fleet might be distinguished by humanity in the victory which he expected. Setting an example himself, he twice gave orders to cease firing upon the Redoubtable, supposing that she had struck, because her great guns were silent; for, as she carried no flag, there was no... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey - Authors, English - 1909 - 664 pages
...prayer that the British fleet might be distinguished by humanity in the victory which he expected. Setting an example himself, he twice gave orders to cease firing upon the Redoubtable, supposing that she had struck, because her great guns were silent ; for, as she carried no flag, there was no... | |
 | Charles H.Sylevester - 1909 - 594 pages
...British fleet might be distinguished by humanity in the victory which he expected. Setting an THE TICTOBT example himself, he twice gave orders to cease firing upon the Redoubtable, supposing that she had struck, because her great guns were silent; for, as she carried no flag, there was no... | |
 | John Lawson Stoddard - Anthologies - 1910 - 490 pages
...prayer that the British fleet might be distinguished by humanity in the victory which he expected. Setting an example himself , he twice gave orders to cease firing upon the Redoutable, supposing that she had struck, because her great guns were silent ; for, as she carried... | |
 | Annie Barnett, Lucy Dale - English literature - 1911 - 488 pages
...prayer that the British fleet might be distinguished by humanity in the victory which he expected. Setting an example himself, he twice gave orders to cease firing upon the " Redoubtable," supposing that she had struck, because her great guns were silent; for, as she carried no flag, there was no... | |
 | Great Britain - 1912 - 154 pages
...prayer, that the British fleet might be distinguished by humanity in the victory which he expected. Setting an example himself, he twice gave orders to cease firing upon the Redoutable, supposing that she had struck, because her great guns were silent ; for, as she carried... | |
 | Will David Howe - Readers - 1912 - 330 pages
...prayer that the British fleet might be distinguished by humanity in the victory which he expected. Setting an example himself, he twice gave orders to cease firing upon the Kedoiibtable, supposing that she had struck, because her great guns were silent; for, as she carried... | |
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Redoubtable, supposing that she had struck, because her great guns were silent ; for, as she carried no flag, there was no means of instantly ascertaining the fact. From this ship which he had thus twice spared, he received his death. A ball fired from... 
