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  • The armament at Toulon consisted of thirteen ships of the line, seven forty-gun frigates, with twenty-four smaller vessels of war, and nearly

    The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson Southey, Robert, 1774-1843 1993

  • On the afternoon of July 12, the forty-gun Phoenix and the Rose, twenty guns, with the accompanying schooner Tryal and two tenders, were seen to move towards North River.

    Washington Richard Harwell 1968

  • A forty-gun ship started up East River and opened on the batteries, which responded angrily.

    Washington Richard Harwell 1968

  • A forty-gun ship started up East River and opened on the batteries, which responded angrily.

    Washington Richard Harwell 1968

  • On the afternoon of July 12, the forty-gun Phoenix and the Rose, twenty guns, with the accompanying schooner Tryal and two tenders, were seen to move towards North River.

    Washington Richard Harwell 1968

  • On the afternoon of July 12, the forty-gun Phoenix and the Rose, twenty guns, with the accompanying schooner Tryal and two tenders, were seen to move towards North River.

    Washington Richard Harwell 1968

  • On the afternoon of July 12, the forty-gun Phoenix and the Rose, twenty guns, with the accompanying schooner Tryal and two tenders, were seen to move towards North River.

    Washington Richard Harwell 1968

  • A forty-gun ship started up East River and opened on the batteries, which responded angrily.

    Washington Richard Harwell 1968

  • A forty-gun ship started up East River and opened on the batteries, which responded angrily.

    Washington Richard Harwell 1968

  • By staying here, and employed, they would liberate us from our enemy close to our door; gratify the Emperor of Russia; protect our Levant trade; and relieve a squadron of our ships from the service: besides giving us one eighty-gun ship, two forty-gun frigates, a Maltese new ship of the line ready for sea, and two frigates.

    The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2 James Harrison

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