Vendome wished to attack the convoy with half his troops.
Thus, when out shooting one day, he came close to the convoy by which the body of his queen was being conveyed to the Escurial; he looked at it, followed it with his eyes, and continued his sport!
Here the convoy was reinforced by two Florentine galleys, also bound for Flanders, and on the 25th they eventually made good their leave of Portuguese waters.
Forced by contrary winds to seek shelter, first at Shoreham and then at Plymouth and Falmouth, it was not till the 2nd of December that the convoysailed out into the ocean.
The crowd surrounded him and his convoy and pushed in such a manner that neither he nor his men were able to stir.
Before entering the city we encountered a convoy of provisions, escorted by a young Mecklenburg officer, Lieutenant Rudloff, who some years later served as a Prussian general.
The Neptune, Galatea, Proteus, and Nereus certainly had an easy time on convoy duty.
We footsloggers determined to detach ourselves from our particular convoyand march into Pretoria, a distance of twenty miles or more, in addition to the four we had already tramped.
Yesterday we moved out to meet and escort Ridley in with the convoy from Pretoria.
Presently the convoy began to get under way with a lowing of oxen and cracking of whips, mingled with the bleating of captured flocks of sheep and goats.
A convoy going to Rustenburg from Pretoria was attacked and part captured a few days ago by Delarey's crowd.
I had expected that to happen soon, the length of the convoy and insufficiency of its guard, having frequently struck me as very tempting for Brother Boer.
As several waggons broke down, and had to be mended or burned, we had to grill on the kopjes for hour upon hour, cursing the convoy with all our might.
The end of that beastly convoy seemed to lag even more than on the preceding day!
The convoy came in during the night, so we were up and off at an early hour, bound for Balmoral, the next station on the line towards Middelburg.
We reached there at mid-day, and camped, as we had to wait for our convoy to come up.
We then ascended a big kopje and were placed at various observation posts till such time as the convoy should move off.
As my horse had gone a bit lame, I was riding with the convoy that day, and so was able to wait and attend the funeral.
Abbeville via Eu in a convoy of Red Cross cars," he said, "and I feel like a sun-downer.
From Abbeville via Eu in a convoy of Red Cross cars, I dare bet," she said.
Will lie a short time at London, and, if no convoy is appointed, will sail under care of a fleet of colliers the best convoy of any.
Image] The Pack-horse Convoy The little trade which existed between one part of the kingdom and another was carried on by means of packhorses, along roads little better than bridle-paths.
The bells also gave notice of the approach of the convoy to those who might be advancing from the opposite direction.
This service being effected, and the works facing the water destroyed, Colonel Stirling was directed to escort a convoy of provisions from Chester to Philadelphia.
Then he mounted his horse again, and continued commanding his men loudly and authoritatively to force their way through the crush of carts and carriages with their convoy of hay.
By these means came it to pass that roads, tolls and convoy dues were multiplied, as innkeepers and all handiworkers of use and pleasure have knowledge; for many sellers bring good sale and cheapness into the Wares.
Antiquary; "and why a Kelso convoy more than any other?
In the course of the late war, and during the alarm of invasion, a fleet of transports entered the Firth of Forth under the convoy of some ships of war, which would reply to no signals.
Now it happened that I lay with twenty-five musquets not far from Dorsten and waited for a convoy that should come to the town: and as was my wont, I stood sentry myself as being near the enemy.
But off Scarborough Jones and his squadron fell in with a British convoy of merchantmen from the Baltic, under escort of H.
On the Brazilian coast they were not successful, but among the West Indian Islands they encountered a fleet of forty-two sail of Portuguese ships, waiting for two men-of-war to convoy them.
Under ordinary circumstances, during a long voyage, time would have hung heavily on the hands of the officers, but with a large convoy to look to, there was plenty to do at all hours of the day and night.
The convoy hove to off Saint Helena, to obtain fresh provisions and water.
It was fully believed that either the Marie had been captured, or that she had been lost in the hurricane which came on soon after the convoy reached Batavia.
A large convoy ready to sail for the West Indies lay at anchor here, and on the evening of the 23rd, as the fury of the wind increased, many signals of distress were seen flying in the offing.
The Arniston was one of a fleet of ships under convoy of H.
The army's last hope is a large convoy of corn and cattle, which is on the way from South Gaul.
At the van and rear of the convoy there were kite balloons high in the sky, with observers constantly watching for periscopes, and for U-boats that might be lurking under the surface.
He could trail the convoy until dusk and then under cover of darkness draw near enough to discharge a torpedo, but in the daytime he must keep his distance because there were eyes in the sky watching for him.
The convoy proved a most baffling problem for Herr Kommandant.
It was urged that a fleet of such seaplanes protected by a convoy of fast battle-planes could invade the enemy harbors and destroys its powerful fleet.
The American Fur Company, which was sending out a convoy to their port in Oregon, had promised to start from Council Bluffs upon a given date, and make them welcome members of the company.
But led by Whitman, they persevered and caught the convoy late in May.
It was a heavy convoyof revictualment, protected by a body of ten or twelve thousand men, commanded by Marshal de Boussac, and numbering amongst them Xaintrailles and La Hire.
Dunois was urgent for her to go herself at once into Orleans, with such portion of theconvoy as boats might be able to transport thither without delay.
The convoy from Blois entered Orleans, preceded by Brother Pasquerel and the priests.
He is the convoy of the late lamented Captain Showers, who has gone and married himself to a very plain, unpleasant young lady, and has consequently left us, and George has given him the care of this boy's education.
We have just had the very Chinese news that George has anticipated all along--indeed, so certainly, that two months ago he luckily sent his own orders to stop all of the convoy and fleet that C.
After His departure, Nabíl put on the dress of a dervish, and set out on foot, catching up with the convoy along the way.
The convoy included a mounted guard of ten soldiers with their officer, a train of fifty mules, and seven pairs of howdahs, each pair surmounted by four parasols.
The convoy of the lovers went on; it reached Constantinople; it passed to Adrianople, and finally to the Akká prison.
