 | Jessie Peabody Frothingham - 1902 - 430 pagina’s
...van. Nelson's quick and penetrating eye at once saw the weak point in the enemy's position ; he saw that where there was room for an enemy's ship to swing, there was room for a British ship to anchor. By taking up positions inside as well as outside of the French line, he could... | |
 | Ernest Edwin Speight, Robert Morton Nance - 1906 - 448 pagina’s
...that intuitive genius with which Nelson was endowed displayed itself ; and it instantly struck him, that where there was room for an enemy's ship to swing, there was room for one of ours to anchor. The plan which he intended to pursue, therefore, was to keep entirely on the outer side of the French... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1907 - 102 pagina’s
...that intuitive genius with which Nelson was endowed displayed itself: and it instantly struck him, that where there was room for an enemy's ship to swing, there was v! room for one of ours to anchor. The plan which he intended to pursue, therefore, was to keep I entirely... | |
 | Esther Singleton - 1908 - 548 pagina’s
...that intuitive genius with which Nelson was endowed displayed itself; and it instantly struck him, that where there was room for an enemy's ship to swing, there was room for one of ours to anchor. The plan which he intended to pursue, therefore, was to keep entirely on the outer side of the French... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1909 - 572 pagina’s
...that intuitive genius with which Nelson was endowed displayed itself; and it instantly struck him, that where there was room for an enemy's ship to swing, there was room for one of ours to anchor. The plan which he intended to pursue, therefore, was to keep entirely on the outer side of the French... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1902 - 876 pagina’s
...Aboukir Bay as Nelson's eye saw them. ' The admiral,' he says, ' viewed these with the eye of a seaman determined on attack ; and it instantly struck his...swing, there was room for one of ours to anchor.' That sentence is the key to the tactics which won the Nile. Only an actual eye-witness could have described... | |
 | Edgar Vincent - 2003 - 654 pagina’s
...the inside and unprepared side of the French line and thus fulfil Nelson's penetrating understanding that 'where there was room for an enemy's ship to swing, there was room for one of ours to anchor'. Furthermore, Hood, Gould, Miller and Saumarez had the skill and discipline to extemporize on Foley's... | |
 | Michael A. Palmer - 2005 - 412 pagina’s
...British men-of-war could see that their enemy's ships were not moored. Nelson was among those who noted "that where there was room for an Enemy's Ship to swing, there was room for one of ours to anchor."11' Captain Thomas Foley, whose Goliath 74 led Nelson's line, made the same observation. On... | |
 | Noel Mostert - 2008 - 800 pagina’s
...captains had firmly in mind at this moment an important injunction that Nelson had stressed to them, 'that where there was room for an enemy's ship to swing, there was room for one of ours to anchor'. Brueys, by failing to lay his line of ships closer along the edge of the shoal, had left them free... | |
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First gain the victory," he said, " and then make the best use of it you can." The moment he perceived the position of the French, that intuitive genius with which Nelson was endowed, displayed itself; and it instantly struck him, that where there was... 
