Full Text Search Details
...ah's Ark compared with modern vessels -- Egypt a country of marvels -- A great naval battle 1250 B.C. -- The monstrous ship built by Ptolemy IV, which... ...avery of the Buccaneers -- Cromwell's defeat of Charles I -- The effect on the naval war with Spain -- English are driven from their designs on Hayti ... ...ring, we perceive a representation of Rameses III (about 1250 B.C.) watching a naval battle, in which the Egyptian fleet is engaging the battle-ships ... ... Venice became engaged in a war with Genoa, in which "Marco enlisted, and in a naval battle which occurred between the two powers soon after, Polo was... ... the light, and the mystery was solved, for here were full accounts of all the naval enterprises of John, and Henry the Navigator. The royal dinner wa... ... fleet were loaded and fired again and again in honor of the occasion; all the flags were displayed; all the crews paraded in their finest uniforms. T... ...r's necks and embraced like long-separated brothers, the trumpets sounded, the flags were displayed, the drums rolled as though Panama were already in... ...Several canoes directly after put out to the ships, two of which carried white flags which were evidently intended as signs of peace, and their amiabl... ...ey had not properly measured their adversaries, for, instead of striking their flags, the Portuguese replied promptly to the guns of their adversaries...

Full Text Search Details
...es, no lifted hands, no raised shields, no plumed helmets at the rail, no flags. I heard an oar drag and in that sound I heard the rasp of death. If... ...homecoming. And now, now our fleet was gliding toward us, grey-hulked, no flags raised, oars shuffling like sick crabs. Was it defeat or half-victor... ...is favorite mare, both of us a little to the front of the Medici pennants, flags, and jousting gear. As we approached the Duke’s stables at a canter,... ... On the blue frozen Thames skaters zip past people, booths, flags. A giant ox roasts on a giant spit. Arm in arm, Shakespeare and E... ...ove London Bridge it became a market, hobbled with ragged booths, stalls, flags and streamers, peopled with courtiers, beggars, soldiers, priests, m... ...utive LINCOLN’S JOURNAL 557 Government, including the military and naval authority, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons..... ...rdon as we attain peace, peace for our democracy. I will at once lift the naval blockade. I will urge Congress to appropriate $400,000,000 to assist...

Full Text Search Details
...Germany and France in Morocco more than once. Britain and Germany were engaged in a naval arms race which depleted the coffers and the social cohesi... ...n charge reverted to Yugoslavia's neutrality and refused to join the British-Greek naval treaty, for example. But what appeared to be spontaneous d... ...bond that formed, fostered by a common vision and shared hope - is intact. Albanian flags fly over Albanian municipalities in Kosovo and in Macedoni...

Full Text Search Details
...w the GIs liberated Germany. Joey's memories of tanks and jeeps with American flags whipping in the wind as they rumbled over the cobble-stoned stre... ... of Navy Seals to board the ship and secure it before it lands." "I'll need Naval approval." "Then get it! I want your agents to concentrate on...

Full Text Search Details
... ownership works. European explorers traveled to other continents and planted flags of their rulers in the soil. And by reading certain official sa... ... victories and battles and conquest. Europeans marched happily to war waving flags and cheering; every nation convinced that their side would win ea... ...her side. The Japanese adopted the tactics of a Ninja assassin as their basic Naval THE PATH OF SPLITNESS Chapter Six A: Civilization The Effect ... ... ever been attacked by sharks, and I mean never. Not in the entire history of naval history has there ever been a recorded instance where survivors ... ...nds of the Earth for their unforgivable sin of defying the power of a British naval sea captain. The mutineers searched for an island where they th... ...e Earth for their unforgivable sin of defying the absolute power of a British naval sea captain. The mutineers searched for an island where they th... ...ir colonial empire disappeared, their trade monopolies were taken over, their naval might was shattered. They were left without no morals, no ethic...

Full Text Search Details
... melting into the morning sun. Those rags they wore were more patriotic than flags and more majestic than King Sejong the Great's crown. Once their fa... ...y survive. It is a place for a young woman to hope that one of the American naval officers that she sells herself to will actually want more than a.....

Excerpt Details
...nterior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several States on the two continents, were deeply interested in the matter....

Full Text Search Details
...common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several States on t... ...nd roared. Just then a noise was heard outside. Steps sounded on the metal flags. The locks were turned, the door opened, and the steward appeared. Be... ...le of papers, yellow but still readable. They were the instructions of the naval minister to Com- mander La Perouse, annotated in the margin in Louis ... ...water, incessantly ploughed by vessels of every nation, shel- tered by the flags of every nation, and which terminates in those two terrible points so...

Excerpt Details
... body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it somehow mildly reminded him of his mortality....

Full Text Search Details
... presented to the company as a harpooneer, say; and if in emulation of the naval officers he should append the initials S.W.F. (Sperm Whale Fishery) to... ...ike craggy guns of lofty Mackinaw; they have heard the fleet thunderings of naval victories; at intervals, they yield their beaches to wild barbar ian... ...attler on a whaling voyage of discovery into the South Sea. Commanded by a naval Post Captain, the Rattler made a rattling voyage of it, and did some ...

Full Text Search Details
...illis chez toutes les nations;” in English, “under the riddled rags of the flags that have been culled or plucked” (like roses or buttercups) “in all ... ... assumed the usual signs of deep mourn- ing: their yards crossed and their flags lowered. Two French merchantmen, ‘Bonne Amie’ and ‘Indien, ’ which ha... ...le. ’ The forts of the town, and the houses of the consuls, had also their flags half-mast high. “On arriving at the entrance of the town, the troops ... ...sels. Our mourning had ceased with the exile of Napo- leon, and the French naval division dressed itself out in all its festal ornaments to receive th... ...their hands. The Prince had had arranged on the deck a chapel, decked with flags and trophies of arms, the altar being placed at the foot of the mizze... ... fired a last salute with all their artillery, and the frigate took in her flags, keeping up only her flag at the stern and the royal standard at the ... ...a binnacle, or luffing a marlinspike, or keelhauling a maintopgallant (all naval operations, my dear, which any seafaring novelist will explain to you...

Full Text Search Details
...e enemy from Rappahannock Station and Kelly’s Ford, capturing eight battle-flags, four guns, and over 1800 prison- ers, with very little loss to himse... ...f the United States under the super- vision and upon the responsibility of naval officers of such gov- ernments and in conformity to such regulations ... ...ed States to aid the rebellion; all who are or shall have been military or naval officers of said so-called Confederate Government above the rank of c... ...d be economical as well as effective aids to the diplomatic, military, and naval service. The consular system of the United States, under the enact- m... ...your careful at- tention to the report itself. The duties devolving on the naval branch of the service dur- ing the year and throughout the whole of t... ...prizes already sent in for adju- dication amounts to over $13,000,000. The naval force of the United States consists at this time of five hundred and ... ...ag captured by our troops in driving the enemy back. There have been four flags captured to-day.” Judging by the two points from which General Grant ... ... Seven NOTE ON A CARD TO SECRETARY STANTON. April 10, 1865. Tad wants some flags—can he be accommodated? A. LINCOLN. RESPONSE TO A CALL, APRIL 10, 186...

Full Text Search Details
...back of the town; and Malietoa pro- ceeded by the beach road to the German naval hospital, where he was received (as he owns, with perfect civility) b... ... women and children of the enemy. Being the only other representative of a naval power now present in this harbour, for the sake of humanity I hereby ... ...dler; there was no glory to be gained in beating her; and yet I have heard naval officers maintain she might have proved a dangerous an- tagonist in n... ...laim, he set up the emblem of his country; and the beach twinkled with the flags of nations. All this, it will be observed, was going forward in that ... ...atives of Mulinuu appear to be under the protection of the Imperial German naval guard belonging to the vessel under your command, I have the honour t... ...e armed natives at Mulinuu are under the protection of the Imperial German naval guard belonging to the vessel under your command.” To this no answer ... ...as ministered by the EBER to T amasese, in the shape of uncountable German flags. The full history of this epidemic of bunting falls to be told in the... ...ter. But the fact has to be chronicled here, for I believe it was to these flags that we owe the visit of the Adams, and my next and best authentic gl... ...dred yards or so the Ger- man flag was flying. The numbers of the guns and flags I give as I received them, though they test my faith. At the house of...

Full Text Search Details
...ise was planned. They decided at first that they would call themselves the Naval Mr. O’s, a plagiarism, and not perhaps a very good one, from the titl... ...serge, with a lot of gold lace and cord and ornamenta- tion, rather like a naval officer’s, but more so. But that had to be abandoned as impracticable... ... most home-like and comfortable quality, and it was made gayer by abundant flags. Along the road a quantity of peas- ant folk, in big pair-wheeled car... ... spent in war material to the making of men. Instead of which they waggled flags at him until he was fourteen, incited him to cheer, and then turned h... ...ven’t realised. You’ve just caught us by a neck. You’re on the blessed old flagship with the Prince. You won’t miss any- thing. Whatever’s on, you bet... ... said the young man, taking pains to be explicit, “is an airship. It’s the flagship of Prince Karl Albert. This is the German air-fleet, and it is goi... ... telegraphy was bringing to the airship in throbs and fragments of a great naval battle in progress in mid-Atlantic. He learnt it at last from Kurt. K... ...” He spread his maps, he had to talk, and so he delivered a lecture on the naval situation to Bert. “Here it is,” he said, latitude 30 degrees 50 minu... ...n’t see a bit of it, worse luck! Not a sniff we shan’t get!” 2 2 2 2 2 The naval situation in the North Atlantic at that time was a peculiar one. The ...

Full Text Search Details
...As to me, I was as pleased and proud as though I had helped to win a great naval battle. O! Y outh! “The night was fine. In the morning a homeward-bou... ...rn. Captain Beard said, ‘We may do something with her yet.’ We hoisted two flags, which said in the international language of the sea, ‘On fire. Want ... ...sistance.’ The steamer grew big- ger rapidly, and by-and-by spoke with two flags on her fore- mast, ‘I am coming to your assistance.’ “In half an hour... ...: Judea ahoy! A thin shout answered. “It was the captain. I had beaten the flagship by three hours, and I was glad to hear the old man’s voice, tremul...

Full Text Search Details
... a sprin- kling of Americans and a German or two—who had all hoisted their flags at eight o’clock as if in honour of our arrival. It would have been a... ...f war-scarred three-deckers, and shredded out in mere sport the bunting of flags hallowed in the traditions of honour and glory. He is a good friend a... ...n the decks of small coasters, and made sore by miles of tramping upon the flagstones of the dock side, had hurried up in time to avert a ridicu- lous... ...gnal-mast with yard and gaff, flying a couple of dingy blue, red, or white flags. This New South Dock (it was its official name), round which my earli... ...ner, where the old housed-in hulk, the President (drill-ship, then, of the Naval Reserve), used to lie with her frigate side rub- bing against the sto... ...e Mirror of the Sea XXXVII THE CRADLE of oversea traffic and of the art of naval combats, the Mediterranean, apart from all the asso- ciations of adve... ...l consequence. From Salamis to Actium, through Lepanto and the Nile to the naval massacre of Navarino, not to mention other armed encounters of lesser... ...e sails, probably cost less than two modern battleships, or, as the modern naval book- jargon has it, two capital units. But no amount of lubberly boo... ...easiness of his heart, thirsting for professional distinction, was a young naval officer. Of his life, career, achievements, and end nothing is preser...

Full Text Search Details
...eality than a very young child. It has these dreams that we express by the flags of nationali- 16 War and the Future ties and by strange loyalties an... ...and her allies, her government has permitted so much of it as military and naval needs have not requisitioned to continue to ply for gain, which the g... ...nd glories of soldiering, the bright uniforms, the feathers and spurs, the flags, the march-past, the disciplined massed advance, the charge; all thes... ...e as an irregular side development of the armoured-car branch of the Royal Naval Air Service work. The names most closely associ- ated with the work a... ...f Dr. Macnamara’s in the House of Commons) Mr. d’Eyncourt, the Director of Naval Construction, Mr. W. O. Tritton, Lieut. Wilson, R.N.A.S., Mr. Bussell... ...s been left open you see the little group of engineers, staff officers and naval men receding and falling away behind you. Y ou straighten up and go u... ...ns a steady processional movement. The group of engineers and officers and naval men appears at the other side of the door and farther off. Then comes... ... him, in which many people did inelegant and irrational things. They waved flags—nasty little flags. This child of the ages, this last fruit of the gi...

Full Text Search Details
... life’s wide ocean, and only that which seemed so little seaworthy, as the naval phrase goes, has reached the port when the tempest is over. Then ther... ...ol, where, manoeuvring our little navy, constructed out of the broad water-flags, my elder brother fell in, and was scarce saved from the watery eleme...

Full Text Search Details
...ntry’s sake, O Chevalier John Paul, be a word spent, or misspent! In faded naval uniform, Paul Jones lingers visible here; like a wine-skin from which... ...ed, from each of the Eighty-three Departments of France. Likewise from all Naval and Military King’s Forces, shall Deputed quotas come; such Federatio... ...rand, another than that of Jacob, is on all the Eighty- three departmental flags of France; which wave or flap, with such thankfulness as needs. Towar... ...tter still more questionably: Chateau-Vieux, far from marching, ‘waves red flags out of two carriages, ’ in a passionate manner, along the streets; an... ...ister. Do not her Ships and King’s Ships lie rotting piecemeal in harbour; Naval Officers mostly fled, and on furlough too, with pay? Little stirring ... ... and with the boast that it is Seventy thousand: most strange to see; with flags flying, bayonets fixed; with Proclamation, and d’Artois Commission of... ...his Jacobin Amphitheatre,—had His- 215 Thomas Carlyle tory time for them. Flags of the ‘Three free Peoples of the Universe, ’ trinal brotherly flags ... ...must belong to Paris, and be suspended from the dome there, along with the Flags of the Three Free Peoples! Such a goose is man; and cackles over plus...

Full Text Search Details
...ell about. Great rejoicings, to be sure, were made on our arrival. All the flags in the place were hoisted, all the guns in the place were fired, and ... ... near it. In a space among the trees behind the encampment of us visitors, naval and military, was a snugly-screened spot, where we kept the stores th...

Full Text Search Details
... and on great and perilous waters; and to take a cue from the dolorous old naval bal- lad, we have heard the mer-maidens singing, and know that we sha... ...of what is imposing to the imagination. And our 82 Robert Louis Stevenson naval annals owe some of their interest to the fantastic and beautiful appe... ...n, Foul- Weather, Jack Byron, are all good to catch the eye in a page of a naval history. Cloudesley Shovel is a mouthful of quaint and sounding sylla... ...d doings of the English Admirals. Duncan, lying off the Texel with his own flagship, the venerable, and only one other vessel, heard that the whole Du... ...ond or third day after, Greenville died of his wounds aboard the Span- ish flagship, leaving his contempt upon the “traitors and dogs” who had not cho... ...the days of the mutiny at the Nore, when he lay off the Texel with his own flagship, the venerable, and only one other vessel, and kept up active sign... ... who, playing with pieces of cork on his own dining-table, invented modern naval warfare. There was that portrait of Neil Gow, to sit for which the ol... ...d virtue, and to dwell with happiness? After all, it is not they who carry flags, but they who look upon it from a private chamber, who have the fun o...

Full Text Search Details
...s and old men cheering and shouting, of the streets and rows hung with the flags of the Allied Powers, of a real enthusiasm even among the destitute a... ...nt of the lower Rhine, and a flanking raid through Holland upon the German naval establishments at the mouth of the Elbe, were integral parts of the o... ...only be done by putting all the world under one government. Our crowns and flags are in the way. Mani- festly they must go.’ ‘Yes, sir,’ interrupted F... ...ontemporary emotions. They interrupt. They set back. Suddenly out come the flags and fireworks, and the old enthusiasms are furbished up—and it’s shee... ...science. All the huge expenditure that had hitherto gone into unproductive naval and military preparations, must now, he declared, place research upon...