 | 194 pagina’s
...contented ; we have done very well " ; but Nelson wrote to his wife, " Now had we taken ten sail, and had allowed the eleventh to escape, when it had been possible...her, I could never have called it well done." The French were reinforced by six sail of the line, under command of Renaudin, the hero of the Vengeur... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1898 - 630 pagina’s
...than myself, said, " We must be contented, we have done very well." Now had we taken ten sail, and had allowed the eleventh to escape, when it had been possible...got at her, I could never have called it well done.' And surely the doctrine of the fleet in being as it applies to the dispositions of an admiral who seeks... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 848 pagina’s
...on this affair, Nelson says, " Now, had we taken ten sail, and allowed the eleventh to have escaped when it had been possible to have got at her, I could never have called it well done. Goodall backed me : I got him to write to the admiral ; but it would not do. We should have had such... | |
 | Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies - 1926 - 850 pagina’s
...: " We must be content — we have done very well." Nelson could not refrain from the outburst : " Had we taken ten sail and allowed the eleventh to escape when it was possible to have got at her, I could never have called it ' well done.' " Of the many critics who... | |
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We must be contented: we have done very well." — "Now," said Nelson, "had we taken ten sail, and allowed the eleventh to escape, when it had been possible to have got at her, I could never have called it well done. 
