 | Frederick Treves - History - 1908 - 498 pages
...20 there is this entry in the admiral's book : " I went on shore for the first time since June 16, 1803, and from having my foot out of the Victory two years wanting two days." The chase that commenced on May 11 ended on October 21 off Cape Trafalgar, where the great... | |
 | Robert Southey - Admirals - 1916 - 376 pages
...anchored at Gibraltar, and on the 20th, says he, "I went on shore for the first time since June 16th, 1803 ; and from having my foot out of the Victory, two years, wanting ten days."1 Here he communicated with his old friend Collingwood, who, having been detached with a squadron,... | |
 | Frederick Treves - Natural history - 1920 - 490 pages
...20 there is this entry in the admiral's book : " I went on shore for the first time since June 16, 1803, and from having my foot out of the Victory two years wanting two days." The chase that commenced on May II ended on October 21 off" Cape Trafalgar, where the great... | |
 | Dudley Pope - Fiction - 1999 - 384 pages
...finally anchored his fleet at Gibraltar on July 19. He wrote once again in his private diary on the 20th: "I went on shore for the first time since the 16th...foot out of the Victory, two years wanting ten days." In a letter to Barham he said: "I have yet not a word of information of the enemy's fleet; it has almost... | |
 | Colin White - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 380 pages
...famous chase of the French fleet to the West Indies and back. As he noted in his private journal, "... I went on shore for the first time since the 16th...foot out of the Victory, two years wanting ten days.' Graves, Sir Thomas (1747-1814) 133 He did, however, return one more time in October 1805, this time... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 848 pages
...Gibraltar. The next day, he remarks in his diary, " I went on shore for the first time since June 16th, 1803, and from having my foot out of the Victory two years wanting ten days ; " in fact, from May 1803 to August 1805 he quitted his ship but three times, each time upon the king's... | |
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The next day he anchored at Gibraltar; and on the 20th, says he, " I went on shore for the first time since June 16th, 1803 ; and from having my foot out of the Victory, two years, wanting ten days. 
