I gave a very florid description of the fight; praised some admirals and captains for their bravery, sneered at others, and accused a few of right down misconduct.
I'll teach him to write to port-admirals for leave--son of a sea cook.
The admirals are much obliged to you for the compliment," said I.
Therefore, to prevent the influx of foreigners, he sent a fleet to the Elbe to take care that nothing should cross; the admirals were Revil and Mevil.
I admit the coast population to be amphibious," laughed the Captain, "but you can't make admirals out of fishermen.
I wonder how it will be with their admirals before the Russian navy," mused Todd, with pensive eyes on a blue-gowned Chinese steward.
The 4 of May we had sight of our Pinnasse, and the Admirals Shallop which had taken three Portugall Carauels, whereof they had sent two away and kept the third.
Tomson, and Iohn Curtise: these were deliuered them, and we receiued 3 Negros into our Admirals skiffe.
The 24 of the sayd moneth at the Admirals direction wee diuided our selues East and West from ech other, being then in the heigth of 43 degrees, with commaundement at night to come together againe.
There went a shore the Admirals skiffe, and the May Flowers boate, and in them the number of 20 persons or thereabouts, as M.
First, out sprang lacqueys carrying bags and wraps who scurried to the royal carriages waiting outside, and out sprang various admirals and diplomats in hot haste, all with rather anxious faces veneered with smiles.
This had already formed the subject of discussions, first between Admiral Sims and myself, and later with Admirals Mayo and Benson.
The exchange of information which took place was most beneficial, as was the experience which the admirals gained of modern naval warfare.
The visits of Admirals Mayo and Benson to this country were productive of very good results.
The convoy commodores were either naval officers, admirals or captains on the active or retired lists, or experienced merchant captains.
The visitors' book among many famous names contains those of the King and the Prince of Wales, and Admirals Jellicoe and Beatty.
Demosthenes now urged the admirals to employ their enforced leisure in fortifying the place.
On their arrival at Melos the Athenian admirals sent envoys into the town, to summon the inhabitants to surrender.
Before the change was made the opinions of a number of the leading admirals were taken.
The Rere Admirals place with the white flagg to be borne in the mayne topp was assigned .
Such was the first attempt to remedy the vices of the radical revolution which the sailor-admirals had brought about.
As soon as the waters were sufficiently freed from ice to be navigable, Wolfe embarked eight thousand men with a formidable train of artillery, at Louisbourg, under convoy of admirals Saunders and Holmes.
He is a steady, sensible, good officer, and of great experience, having served several years with admirals as a lieutenant.
The Spanish and French admirals were on board the Sabrina frigate.
The remainder of the enemy's squadron, consisting of five sail of the line and one frigate, in which both the French and Spanish admirals were embarked, were discerned in the N.
To those conversant in naval affairs, it must appear manifest that the disposition made by Admirals Moreno and Linois was one of the worst that could be devised.
He strolls down to Washington and persuades the Generals and the Admirals and the President that he has been winning the war for them instead of winning the wife of his family physician.
I looked the Admiral full in the eye--a thing which Admiralsrate along with a snappy "Sir!
Only Admiralsand Generals are good at intelligence.
I said to myself, Princes and Counts and Grand Admirals are very well, but they are not Emperors, and one can not be too particular about who he associates with.
On every side Field-Marshals gleamed, Small beer were Lords-Lieutenant deemed, With Admirals the ocean teemed All round his wide dominions.
For Admirals to romp and race Or frolic in a public place Is held to be a great disgrace; I do not think a single case Of this has happened at our base.
Vice-Admirals command a base; Their forms blend dignity with grace.
In 1810 Admirals Pellew and Bertie were in command of strong British forces, and Lord Minto, the Governor-General of India, was determined to root the French out of the Isle of France, and clear India of danger from that source.
On the deck of the Queen Charlotte were collected the gallant admirals and captains, by whose courage and seamanship the first of that long series of victories which contributed so greatly to England's naval glory had been won.
His Majesty exhibited much genuine feeling as the admiralscaptains and lieutenants in succession came up to him.
To complete the system there were flotilla patrols acting under the port admirals and doing their best to police the routes of the coastwise and local traffic, which then had an importance long since lost.
The Cromwellian admirals handed down to us the memory of battles lasting three, and even four, days.
So astonishing was its success--as foreign observers remarked--that it was naturally applied by our soldier-admirals at sea so soon as war broke out with the Dutch.
Now, amongst all our uncertainty we can assert with confidence that the theory which holds the field at the present day bears the closest possible resemblance to that which dominated the soldier-admirals of the Dutch war.
It was not always the defensive strategy that was bad, but the policy that condemned her admirals to negative operations.
To Lord Barham and the able admirals who interpreted his plans it meant the possibility of massing at the right time and place.
It was one of the fallacies that underlay all Napoleon's naval combinations, that he believed that our hard-bitten admirals would behave in this guileless manner.
Whereupon the allied admirals replied that they were ready to proceed and do their best to set the army ashore and support it at any point that should be chosen.
The inconvenience attending the necessary precedence that most foreign admirals have over our own whenever they meet in official functions ought to be avoided.
Our great battleship fleet is commanded by a rear admiral, with four other rear admirals under his orders.
It is certain that the Navy, with its present size, should have admirals in active command higher than rear admirals.
If racial incidents convinced the admirals that further reforms were necessary, they also seem to have strengthened Forrestal's resolve to introduce a still greater change in his department's policy.
Marx Leva, Forrestal's assistant, told the story of a Forrestal subordinate who complained that some admirals were still opposed to naval aviation, to which Forrestal replied that he knew some admirals who still opposed steam engines.
Once again the Navy experienced the curious phenomenon of a lieutenant firing off memos and letters to senior admirals and buttonholing the Secretary of the Navy.
Admirals Nimitz and King both endorsed Granger's recommendations, although neither saw the need for further change.
These were the chiefs of the powerful bureaus and the prominent senior admirals of the General Board, the Navy's highest advisory body.
Blind people are surprised that hungry people, betrayed by admirals and generals, do not take an interest in voting.
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