 | Tobias Smollett - 1810 - Počet stránok 590
...intended expedition till towards the end of the month. Instead of directing his course to the Havannah, which lay to leeward,' and might have been reached...against the wind to Hispaniola, in order to observe the motion of the French squadron, commanded by the marquis d'Antin. The fifteenth day of February had... | |
 | Tobias Smollett, Robert Anderson - 1820 - Počet stránok 494
...house in Spanishtown, in which it was resolved, that the whole fleet should beat up to windward, and observe the motions of the French squadron, commanded by the Marquis d'Antin, then lying in the harbour of Port Louis, in the island of Hispaniola. Accordingly, a body of negroes,... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1822 - Počet stránok 494
...till towards the end of the month. Instead of directing his course to the Hayannah, which lay to the leeward, and might have been reached in less than...against the wind to Hispaniola, in order to observe the motion of the French squadron, commanded by the marquis d'Antin. The 15th day of February had elapsed... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett - 1824 - Počet stránok 308
...house in Spanishtown, in which it was resolved, that the whole fleet should beat up to windward, and observe the motions of the French squadron, commanded by the Marquis d'Antin, then lying in the harbour of Port Louis, in the island of Hispaniola. Accordingly, a body of negroes,... | |
 | David Hume - 1825 - Počet stránok 488
...till towards the end of the month. Instead of directing his course to the Havannah, which lay to the leeward, and might have been reached in less than...against the wind to Hispaniola, in order to observe the motipn of the French squadron, commanded by the marquis d'Antin, The 15th day of February had elapsed... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1825 - Počet stránok 656
...intended expedition till towards tbc end of the month. Instead of directing his course to the Havaunah, which lay to leeward, and might have been reached...resolved to beat up against the wind to Hispaniola, iu order to observe the motion of the French squadron, commanded by the marquis d'Autiu. The fifteenth... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett - 1827 - Počet stránok 468
...intended expedition till towards the end of the month. Instead of directing his course to the Havannah, which lay to leeward, and might have been reached...against the wind to Hispaniola, in order to observe the motion of the French squadron, commanded by the marquis d'Antin. The fifteenth day of February had... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1841 - Počet stránok 540
...conflicting schemes, jealousies, and irreconcilable hatreds. Some proposed to attack the Ilavannah, which lay to leeward, and might have been reached in less than three days, and which was said to be at that moment ill prepared for defence; but Vernon, who had "the voice potential,"... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1846 - Počet stránok 516
...conflicting schemes, jealousies, and irreconcilable hatreds. Some proposed to attack the Havannah, which lay to leeward, and might have been reached in less than three days, and which was said to be at that moment ill prepared for defence ; but Vernon, who had " the voice... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett - 1848 - Počet stránok 566
...expedition till towards the end of the month, thagena. Instead of directing his course to the Havannah, which lay to leeward, and might have been reached...received certain information that the French admiral had sailed for Europe, in great distress, for want of men and provisio'ns, which he could not procure in... | |
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which lay to leeward, and might have been reached in less than three days, he resolved to beat up against the wind to Hispaniola, in order to observe the motions of the French squadron commanded by the Marquis d'Antin. The fifteenth day of February had... 
