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Memoirs of Admiral the Right Hon[orabl]e the Earl of St. Vincent Volume 1

Memoirs of Admiral the Right Hon[orabl]e the Earl of St. Vincent Volume 1

Tucker, Jedediah Stephens

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ISBN10: 1235842789
ISBN13: 9781235842788
Publisher: General Books
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.27 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1844 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER X. Despatch of Sir Horatio Nelson against the French Expedition from Toulon.--Conveyance to Spain of Pope Pius VI Capture of Minorca.--Repair of the British ships, from the Battle of the Nile.--Illness of Lord St. Vincent.--Construction of Tanks at Gibraltar.--French Fleet enters the Mediterranean. Lord St. Vincent recals Lord Keith from Cadiz, and follows them--Dangerous illness of Lord St. Vincent His resignation of the command, and return to England. The arrangement which collected what is offered about the Mutiny into one separate and continuous statement, Las so far done injustice to the Commander-in-chief of the fleet in which it happened, as that, to some, it may seem to say, these events all following closely upon each other, were in the fleet before Cadiz, as they were at the Nore and Spithead, of such overpowering effect, as to paralyze the efficiency of the force; though obedience and discipline were in the end restored, yet, not till after a long period, was Lord St. Vincent's a perfectly serviceable fleet. But the very reverse was the fact, --and is perhaps that one which most redounds to Lord St. Vincent's fame. Never was any duty, not to say obstructed, but not for a moment interrupted; the armed launches which supported the authority of the law, were, before they could be again hoisted in, signalled away to defeat the hostile gun-boats; the ships selected because most mutinous, to compose the reinforcements, were instantly placed in the front of the blockade, joining the in-shore squadron. Therefore, now that the attempt is resumed to trace an outline of Lord St. Vincent's proceedings, the thread is taken up at the spring of 1798; with recollection that, though the disposition to mutiny was profuse throughout the fleet, and though the..

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