 | George Lathom Browne - Admirals - 1891 - 576 pages
...Captain Ball he wrote (May roth) : — " My lot is cast, and I am going to the West Indies, where, though I am late, yet chance may have given them a bad passage, and me a good one. I must hope for the best." How characteristic of Nelson's feeling for his comrades are the few words to Captain... | |
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - Admirals - 1897 - 536 pages
...decide upon his line of action. " My lot is cast, my dear Ball, and I am going to the West Indies, where, although I am late, yet chance may have given...passage, and me a good one : I must hope the best." " Disappointment has worn me to a skeleton," he writes to his late junior in the Mediterranean, Campbell,... | |
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - Biography & Autobiography - 1897 - 540 pages
...decide upon his line of action. " My lot is cast, my dear Ball, and I am going to the West Indies, where, although I am late, yet chance may have given...passage, and me a good one : I must hope the best." " Disappointment has worn me to a skeleton," he writes to his late junior in the Mediterranean, Campbell,... | |
 | Dudley Pope - Fiction - 1999 - 384 pages
...Finally he made a decision. "My lot is cast," he wrote to Ball, "and I am going to the West Indies, where, although I am late, yet chance may have given them a bad passage and me a good one." To another friend he wrote, "Disappointment has worn me to a skeleton, and I am, in good truth, very,... | |
 | Edgar Vincent - History - 2003 - 654 pages
...sail for the West Indies. Although he knew the enemy had a month's lead he reasoned optimistically: 'chance may have given them a bad passage, and me a good one'.31 Nobody in England would know until the end of May where either Nelson or the French fleet had... | |
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My lot is cast, my dear Ball, and I am going to the West Indies, where, although I am late, yet chance may have given them a bad passage, and me a good one : I must hope the best. 