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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE TO THE TWELFTH VOLUME
- PLATES IN VOLUME XII. From Original Designs
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF SIR ISAAC COFFIN, BART. REAR-ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE HON. GEORGE CRANFIELD BERKELEY, REAR-ADMIRAL OF THE RED SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF SIR PETER PARKER, BART. ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE LATE SIR PETER WARREN, K.B. VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE RED SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF SIR NATHANIEL DANCE, KNT. Commander of the Honourable East India Company's Ship Earl Camden, and Commodore of their Fleet homeward-bound from China
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF SIR RICHARD KING, BART. ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- INDEX
BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF SIR NATHANIEL DANCE, KNT. Commander of the Honourable East India Company's Ship Earl Camden, and Commodore of their Fleet homeward-bound from China
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE TO THE TWELFTH VOLUME
- PLATES IN VOLUME XII. From Original Designs
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF SIR ISAAC COFFIN, BART. REAR-ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE HON. GEORGE CRANFIELD BERKELEY, REAR-ADMIRAL OF THE RED SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF SIR PETER PARKER, BART. ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE LATE SIR PETER WARREN, K.B. VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE RED SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF SIR NATHANIEL DANCE, KNT. Commander of the Honourable East India Company's Ship Earl Camden, and Commodore of their Fleet homeward-bound from China
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF SIR RICHARD KING, BART. ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- INDEX
Summary
Some are born great; some achieve greatness.
Shakspeare.“ ——— Ne'er did man, with such bright glory clothed,
Bear him so meek. To God he gave the praise,
Owning himself his humble minister.
The honours proud heaped on him he received
With blushes, or with gentle speech repelled,
As one scarce worthy.”
Anon.Accustomed, as we have been for a long period of time, to contemplate the brilliant achievements of our naval heroes, until an uninterrupted series of splendid victories, unclouded by the remembrance of a single disaster, seemed to place an almost impassable barrier between our Fleets and the slightest reverse of fortune, it was reserved for the era of the present war to complete the triumph of Britain, and the disgrace of her vain-glorious foe. On the first appearance of the re-commencement of hostilities, Admiral Linois, who had been sent from France to take possession of the ceded settlement of Pondicherry, and with a force, which, under the management of British Sailors, had been adequate to the destruction of our commerce in the Indian Seas, made his escape from the roads of Pondicherry, and proceeded to join the Dutch Fleet at Batavia. From thence, however, he sailed without his allies in quest of the English homeward bound China Fleet.
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- The Naval ChronicleContaining a General and Biographical History of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom with a Variety of Original Papers on Nautical Subjects, pp. 345 - 432Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1805