 | Enos Bronson - 1810 - 462 pages
...his dinner to be served while preparations were making for battle; and when his officers rose from table and, went to their separate stations, he said...shall have gained a peerage or Westminster Abbey." Why Buonaparte, having effected bis landing, should Yiot have ordered , the fleet* to return, is a... | |
 | 1813 - 574 pages
...his dinner to be served, while preparations were making for battle; and when his officers rose from table, and went to their separate stations, he said...shall have gained a peerage, or Westminster Abbey.' " P. 218. Instead of repeating the often-repeated details of the action, we shall present our readers... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1815 - 494 pages
...his dinner to be served, while preparations were making for hattle; and when his officers rose from table, and went to their separate stations, he said to them, " Before this time to-morrow l shall have gained a peerage or Westminster-abbey." It has never been explained, why Bonaparte, having... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1813 - 274 pages
...his dinner to be served, while preparations were making for battle; and when his officers rose from table, and went to their separate stations, he said...time to-morrow " I shall have gained a peerage, or West" minster Abbey." The French steering direct for Candia, had made an angular passage for Alexandria... | |
 | 1813 - 580 pages
...his dinner to be served, while preparations were making for battle ; and when his officers rose from table, and went to their separate stations, he said to them : ' Before this time to-morrow I shaJl have gained a peerage, or Westminster Abbey.' " P. 218. " Instead of repeating the often-repeated... | |
 | 1815 - 488 pages
...his dinner to be served, while preparations were making for battle ; and when his officers rose from table, and went to their separate stations, he said...shall have gained a peerage or Westminster- abbey." It has never been explained, why Bonaparte, haying effected his landing, should not have ordered the... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1815 - 492 pages
...his dinner to be served, while preparations were making for battle; and when his officers rose from table, and went to their separate stations, he said...this time to-morrow I shall have gained a peerage or Westminster-abbey." It has never been explained, why Bonaparte, having effected his landing, should... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 532 pages
...preparations were making for battle ; and when his officers rose from table, and were about to proceed to their separate stations, he said to them, " Before...shall have gained a peerage, or Westminster Abbey." Admiral Brueys, not being able to enter the port of Alexandria, had moored his fleet in Aboukir Bay,... | |
 | Edward Baines - 1818 - 582 pages
...battle ; and when his officers rose from table, and went to their separate stations, he exclaimed — " Before this time to-morrow I shall have gained a Peerage, or Westminster Abbey."* The advantage of numbers, both in ships, guns, and men, was in favour of the French ; they had thirteen... | |
 | John James M'Gregor - 1819 - 482 pages
...to be served, while preparations were making for battle ; and when his officers rose from table, aud went to their separate stations, he said to them,...shall have gained a peerage or Westminster Abbey." Admiral Brneys, not having been able to bring his ships into the port of Alexandria, had moored them... | |
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Nelson had hardly taken either sleep or food ; he now ordered his dinner to be served, while preparations were making for battle ; and when his officers rose from table, and went to their separate stations, he said to them : ' Before this time to-morrow... 
