 | Granville Penn - 1833 - 614 sidor
...nimble steerage, whereby they could turn and wield themselves with the wind which way they listed, came oftentimes very near upon the Spaniards, and...continually giving them one broadside after another, they dispatched all their shot, both great and small, upon them, spending one whole day, from morning till... | |
 | Granville Penn - 1833 - 618 sidor
...nimble steerage, whereby they could turn and wield themselves with the wind which way they listed, came oftentimes very near upon the Spaniards, and...continually giving them one broadside after another, they dispatched all their shot, both great and small, upon them, spending one whole day, from morning till... | |
 | sir Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1851 - 348 sidor
...whereby they could turn and wield themselves with the wind which way they listed, came often times very near upon the Spaniards, and charged them so...length asunder: and so continually giving them one broad side after another, they discharged all their shot both great and small upon them, spending one... | |
 | Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1851 - 376 sidor
...array or separate their forces now conjoyned and united together, standing only upon their defense. them so sore, that now and then they were but a pike's...length asunder ; and so continually giving them one broad side after another, they discharged all their shot, both great and small, upon them, spending... | |
 | Ferdinand E. A. Gasc - 1858 - 362 sidor
...the wind which way they listed,5 came often very near upon the Spaniards, and charged them so sore,4 that now and then they were but a pike's length asunder...and so continually giving them one broadside after another,5 they discharged all their shot both great and small6 upon them, spending one whole day from... | |
 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1863 - 382 sidor
...they listed, came often times very near upon the Spaniards, and charged * Vol. i., p. 602. • them BO sore, that now and then they were but a pike's length asunder ; and so continually giving them one broad side after another, they discharged all their shot, both great and small, upon them, spending... | |
 | Henry Richard Fox Bourne - 1868 - 336 sidor
...and warlike ships in the English fleet," it was said and must be remembered, " yet scarce there were two or three and twenty among them all which matched...both great and small, upon them, spending a whole day in that violent kind of conflict."f Every ship in the Spanish fleet received its share of injury. A... | |
 | Ferdinand E A. Gasc - 1869 - 382 sidor
...steerage,2 whereby they could turn and wield themselves with the wind which way they listed,3 came often very near upon the Spaniards, and charged them so...and so continually giving them one broadside after another,6 they discharged all their shot both great and small6 upon them, spending one whole day from... | |
 | James Ridgway - 1873 - 216 sidor
...steerage, whereby they could turn and wield themselves with the wind which way they listed, came often very near upon the Spaniards, and charged them so...their shot, both great and small, upon them, spending one whole day from morning till night in that violent kind of conflict, until powder and bullets failed... | |
 | Louise Creighton - 1877 - 304 sidor
...the Admiral not having yet come up. Again the English took advantage of their nimble steerage, and " came oftentimes very near upon the Spaniards, and...discharged all their shot, both great and small, upon them, . . . until such time as powder and bullets failed them." The fighting lasted six hours, and terrible... | |
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English ships using their prerogative of nimble steerage, whereby they could turn and wield themselves with the wind which way they listed, came often times very near upon the Spaniards, and charged them so sore, that now and then they were but a pike's... 
