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... ships of war amounted to 469 , and an armed flotilla of small craft , to the amount of 800 , could be speedily added . The ordnance and every other branch of the public service C 2 had general array of the people when the country was in ...
... ships of war amounted to 469 , and an armed flotilla of small craft , to the amount of 800 , could be speedily added . The ordnance and every other branch of the public service C 2 had general array of the people when the country was in ...
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... ships of the line equal if not superior in number to those that were blockading them , and they had at least 500 gun - boats , while we had not more than twenty to oppose them . If proper atten- tion had been paid , we might by this ...
... ships of the line equal if not superior in number to those that were blockading them , and they had at least 500 gun - boats , while we had not more than twenty to oppose them . If proper atten- tion had been paid , we might by this ...
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... Ships captured at Toulon.- Adjournment . N the ninth of March the royal or by a sincere desire to co - operate was given in preservation of the to several public and private bills : before the commission was read , earl Fitzwilliam ...
... Ships captured at Toulon.- Adjournment . N the ninth of March the royal or by a sincere desire to co - operate was given in preservation of the to several public and private bills : before the commission was read , earl Fitzwilliam ...
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... ships was always nearly suspended at the king's yards , which were then wanting for repairing the damages our ships might meet on service . It was also worthy of re- mark , that , in the first year of the last war , we began from a ...
... ships was always nearly suspended at the king's yards , which were then wanting for repairing the damages our ships might meet on service . It was also worthy of re- mark , that , in the first year of the last war , we began from a ...
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Edmund Burke. As to the building ships at the mer- chants ' yards , in preference to the king's yards , there were many ob- jections . The contract - built ships were found not to be so good as those built in the king's yards . The Ajax ...
Edmund Burke. As to the building ships at the mer- chants ' yards , in preference to the king's yards , there were many ob- jections . The contract - built ships were found not to be so good as those built in the king's yards . The Ajax ...
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