 | William Thomas Stead - 1904 - 794 стор.
...great as Nelson's, and his motto for his countrymen, he tells me, is Mahan's words : — • "Nelson's far-distant, storm-beaten ships, upon which the Grand...looked, stood between it and the dominion of the world." JAPANESE TERMS OF PEACE. THE Japanese appear to be counting their chickens before they are hatched,... | |
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - 1892 - 470 стор.
...a more impressive demonstration of the influence of sea power upon its history. Those far distant, storm-beaten ships, upon which the Grand Army never...fleets were by chains of smaller vessels, chance alone could secure Bonaparte's great combination, which depended upon the covert concentration of several... | |
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - 1892 - 466 стор.
...a more impressive demonstration of the influence of sea power upon its history. Those far distant, storm-beaten ships, upon which the Grand Army never...British fleets were by chains of smaller vessels, Nchance alone could secure Bonaparte's great combination, which depended upon the covert concentration... | |
 | David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Walter Morris - 1893 - 534 стор.
...saved England. The world has never seen a more impressive demonstration of the influence of seapower upon its history. Those fardistant, storm-beaten ships,...fleets were by chains of smaller vessels, chance alone could secure Bonaparte's great combination, which depended upon the covert concentration of several... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1895 - 594 стор.
...far-distant, storm-beaten ships,' writes Captain Mahan in. the most impressive passage of his history, ' upon which the Grand Army never looked, stood between it and the dominion of the \vorld . . . while bodily present before Brest, Kochefort, and Toulon, strategically the British squadrons... | |
 | John Knox Laughton - 1896 - 434 стор.
...saved England. The world has never seen a more impressive demonstration of the influence of sea-power upon its history. Those far-distant, storm-beaten...fleets were by chains of smaller vessels, chance alone could secure Bonaparte's great combination, which depended upon the covert concentration of several... | |
 | William Fraser Rae - 1896 - 510 стор.
...great interest about the mutiny in the fleet, pp. 111-115. words of Captain Mahan, though composed of " fardistant, storm-beaten ships upon which the Grand...looked, stood between it and the dominion of the world." 1 The word in season is the word which works as great miracles as faith. It was spoken by Sheridan... | |
 | George Sydenham Clarke Baron Sydenham of Combe, James Richard Thursfield - 1897 - 414 стор.
...war is the place, however distant, where it can meet and fight the enemy to the greatest advantage. "Those far-distant, storm-beaten ships, upon which...looked, stood between it and the dominion of the world." It was St. Vincent, a seaman, who placed them where they were, and it was Lord Barham, another seaman,... | |
 | William Henry Fitchett - 1900 - 376 стор.
...imprisoned, and kept the fields of Kent in peace. " Those far-distant, storm-beaten ships," says Mahan, " upon which the Grand Army never looked, stood between it and the dominion of the world." CHAPTER XIII NAPOLEON'S SEA-STRATEGY BUT the sea, with its vast spaces and wandering winds, has always... | |
 | 1922 - 818 стор.
...impressive demonstration of the influence of sea power upon history. Those far distant, storm beaten ships, upon which the Grand Army never looked, stood between it and the dominion of the world. Such were some of the more prominent instances in which preponderant naval power determined the fate... | |
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... of the big ships before the French arsenals. Purposeless they surely seemed to many, but they saved England. The world has never seen a more impressive demonstration of the influence of sea power upon its history. Those far distant, storm-beaten ships,... 
