| Henry Fowler - 1856 - 578 pagina’s
...youth, told the prince that he ought to be made an admiral. The prince replied : "If, my lord, I am to make all my brave officers admirals, I should have no captains or lieutenants in my service." It was six years after this, that a British fleet suddenly appeared offElsinore, the toll-gate city... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1860 - 606 pagina’s
...admiral. Frederick's reply was fine and memorable — stamping him as no common man nor common prince : " If, my lord, I were to make all my brave officers...should have no captains or lieutenants in my service!" To resume the narrative. King Frederick was sojourning at the celebrated royal palace of Frederiksborg,... | |
| Archibald Alison - 1860 - 702 pagina’s
...ashore, and said to the Crown-Prince he should make him an admiral. " If, my lord," replied the prince, " I were to make all my brave officers admirals, I should have no captains or lieutenants in my service." — Naval Chronicle, xiv. 308. CHAP, been recently manned by fifteen hundred men, all thought _ I of... | |
| Paul C. Sinding - 1860 - 452 pagina’s
...told the prince, that Villemoes ought to be made an admiral. The prince replied : ' If, my Lord, I am to make all my brave officers admirals, I should have no captains or lieutenants in my service.' " After a continued fight of five hours the Danish fleet was almost altogether destroyed, but Nelson... | |
| 1860 - 996 pagina’s
...memorable — stamping him as no common man nor common prince : — " If, my lord, I were to malee all my brave officers admirals, I should have no captains or lieutenants in my service !" To reaume the narrative. King Frederick was sojourning at the celebrated royal palace of Frederiksborg,... | |
| William Hurton - 1861 - 466 pagina’s
...Frederick's reply was fine and memorable — stamping him as no common man nor common prince : — " If, my lord, I were to make all my brave officers...should have no captains or lieutenants in my service ! " To resume the narrative. 1 King Frederick was sojourning at the celebrated royal palace of Frederiksborg,... | |
| William Freke Williams - 1864 - 786 pagina’s
...emotions, and intimated to the prince he deserved to be made an admiral. To which proposal the prince happily replied : — " If, my lord, I were to make...should have no captains or lieutenants in my service." The Danes fought on this occasion with the utmost valour and determination. The prince royal stationed... | |
| Arthur Bailey Thompson - 1865 - 748 pagina’s
...young hero, and told the Prince that he should make him an admiral. "If, my lord," replied the Prince, "I were to make all my brave officers admirals, I...should have no captains or lieutenants in my service." NAPOLEON ADD LORD WHITWOETH. — MARCH MTH, 1803. It waa seen from the moment of its signature that... | |
| Laura Valentine - 1868 - 314 pagina’s
...Prince that he ought to be an admiral. " My lord," replied the unfortunate but chivalrous Dane, " if I were to make all my brave officers admirals, I should have no captains or lieutenants in my service." A mot worthy of being numbered amongst the best in history. Never indeed had the valour of Denmark... | |
| 1869 - 506 pagina’s
...with enthusiasm, and told the Prince he ought to be an admiral. " My Lord," replied the Prince, "if I were to make all my brave officers admirals, I should have no captains or lieutenants in my service." An armistice having been ratified and agreed to on the part of the Crown Prince and Sir Hyde Parker,... | |
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