 | Willis John Abbot - 1887 - 436 páginas
...Midshipman William Lee of the " Confiance " wrote home after the battle, "The havoc on both sides was dreadful. I don't think there are more than five of...our ears. Were you to see my jacket, waistcoat, and trousers, you would be astonished to know how I escaped as I did ; for they are literally torn all... | |
 | Lady Matilda Ridout Edgar, Thomas Ridout - 1890 - 418 páginas
...so shattered, that one looked like so many bunches of matches, and the other like a bundle of rags. I don't think there are more than five of our men out of 300 but what are killed or wounded. Never was a shower of hail so thick as the shot whistling about... | |
 | Edgar Stanton Maclay - 1894 - 734 páginas
...wounded in the cockpit. Midshipman William Lee, of the Confiance, wrote: "The havoc on both sides was dreadful. I don't think there are more than five of...our ears. Were you to see my jacket, waistcoat and trousers, you would be astonished how I escaped as I did, for they are literally torn all to rags with... | |
 | Edgar Stanton Maclay - 1901 - 762 páginas
...wounded in the cockpit. Midshipman William Lee, of the Confiance, wrote: "The havoc on both sides was dreadful. I don't think there are more than five of...hail so thick as the shot whistling about our ears. Wrere you to see my jacket, waistcoat and trousers, you would be astonished how I escaped as I did,... | |
 | Edward Day Collins - 1903 - 366 páginas
...sb shattered that one looked like so many bunches of matches, and the other like a bundle of rags. The havoc on both sides is dreadful. I don't think...hundred, but what are killed or wounded. Never was shower of hail so thick as the shot whistling about our ears. Were you to see my jacket, waistcoat... | |
 | Rodney Macdonough - 1909 - 356 páginas
...were sent on shore to the hospital, where we lay two days, when we were sent down here on our parole. The havoc on both sides is dreadful. I don't think there are more than five of our men out of 300 but what are killed or wounded. Never was a shower of hail so thick as the shot whistling about... | |
 | New York (State). Plattsburgh Centenary Commission - 1914 - 94 páginas
...of the hos•pital. Midshipman Lee of the Confiance, who was wounded in the action, thus described the condition of that vessel: "The havoc on both sides...our ears. Were you to see my jacket, waist-coat and trousers, you would be astonished how I escaped as I did, for they are literally 'torn all to rags... | |
 | Willis John Abbot - 1926 - 328 páginas
...Midshipman William Lee of the " Confiance " wrote home after the battle, " The havoc on both sides was dreadful. I don't think there are more than five of...our ears. Were you to see my jacket, waistcoat, and trousers, you would be astonished to know how I escaped as I did; for they are literally torn all to... | |
 | Henry Barton Dawson - 1858 - 586 páginas
...shattered, that one looked like so many bunches of matches, and the other like a bundle of old rags. . . . The havoc on both sides is dreadful. I don't think...more than five of our men, out of three hundred, but are killed and wounded. Never was a shower of hail so thick as the shot whistling about our ears. There... | |
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The havoc on both sides was dreadful. I don't think there are more than five of our men, out of three hundred, but what are killed or wounded. Never was a shower of hail so thick as the shot whistling about our ears. Were you to see my jacket, waistcoat,... 