Our Sailors - Gallant Deeds of the British Navy during Victoria's Reign 1.0.1
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Summary: Introduction-'Let fall the topsails, hoist away'up anchor, round goes the capstan'sheet home'haul taut the braces! and away we glide, to prove to our countrymen that British sailors have not been sleeping on beds of roses for the last quarter of a century since her gracious Majesty Queen Victoria came to the throne.' So wrote our author some forty years ago. 'Up anchor, full speed ahead,' is, we suppose, the modern equivalent for his nautical simile, and very prosaic and commonplace it sounds; but we shall find that the romance of the Navy did not go out with the last of the sailing frigates, and that the age of steam and electricity, of enormous ironclads and rapid cruisers, affords as great a scope for individual daring, resource, and heroism as the days of sailing frigates and boarding parties; and that though in recent years our sailors have not had many chances of using their weapons on the sea, the Naval Brigade has taken its part in many an expedition, on land, and on all occasions the British tar has proved himself a worthy successor to the heroes of Trafalgar and the Nile.
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Updated: 2011-12-16
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Introduction-'Let fall the topsails, hoist away'up anchor, round goes the capstan'sheet home'haul taut the braces! and away we glide, to prove to our countrymen that British sailors have not been sleeping on beds of roses for the last quarter of a century since her gracious Majesty Queen Victoria came to the throne.' So wrote our author some forty years ago. 'Up anchor, full speed ahead,' is, we suppose, the modern equivalent for his nautical simile, and very prosaic and commonplace it sounds; but we shall find that the romance of the Navy did not go out with the last of the sailing frigates, and that the age of steam and electricity, of enormous ironclads and rapid cruisers, affords as great a scope for individual daring, resource, and heroism as the days of sailing frigates and boarding parties; and that though in recent years our sailors have not had many chances of using their weapons on the sea, the Naval Brigade has taken its part in many an expedition, on land, and on all occasions the British tar has proved himself a worthy successor to the heroes of Trafalgar and the Nile.Please Note that the book is stored on your Android and you do NOT need a data connection to read it.
This is a full-length, quality digitized book.
Our Sailors - Gallant Deeds of the British Navy during Victoria's Reign, by William Henry Giles Kingston, is packaged with an easy to use functional book reader which means you can down load the App and start reading.
This is a full length ebook version of this title.
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- Vertical or horizontal Scroll up/down
- Opens up where you left off reading
- Variable font size and background color
- Portrait and Landscape mode
- Table of Contents for easy navigation between chapters
- Set bookmarks to remember marked sections
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