The Fleets of the World: The Galley PeriodD. Van Nostrand, 1876 - 235 páginas |
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... attacked by the combined Naval forces of Denmark and Sweden and a Norwegian earl named Eric . Great battle of Stralsund ..... Earl Eric usurps the Sovereignty of Norway . Olaf Haroldsson , the Saint ... • • PAGE . 161 166 · 182 182 Olaf ...
... attacked by the combined Naval forces of Denmark and Sweden and a Norwegian earl named Eric . Great battle of Stralsund ..... Earl Eric usurps the Sovereignty of Norway . Olaf Haroldsson , the Saint ... • • PAGE . 161 166 · 182 182 Olaf ...
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... attack our rear , lest getting wind of his design , we should fall upon such detachment with our whole strength , and destroy it utterly , before the rest of the Persian fleet could come to its support . At the isthmus of Corinth you ...
... attack our rear , lest getting wind of his design , we should fall upon such detachment with our whole strength , and destroy it utterly , before the rest of the Persian fleet could come to its support . At the isthmus of Corinth you ...
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... attack us simultaneously in front , flank and rear , thus ensuring our utter destruction , and mak- ing of every ... attacking the Grecian fleet without delay ; and , as he spoke first in the assembly , declaring himself in favor of this ...
... attack us simultaneously in front , flank and rear , thus ensuring our utter destruction , and mak- ing of every ... attacking the Grecian fleet without delay ; and , as he spoke first in the assembly , declaring himself in favor of this ...
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... attack him ; and so when he reached Patræ he bore away north - west for Etolia , expecting to see the enemy stop , as he drew near and suffer him to pass unmolested . But Phormio , the Athenian admiral , who was the foremost sea ...
... attack him ; and so when he reached Patræ he bore away north - west for Etolia , expecting to see the enemy stop , as he drew near and suffer him to pass unmolested . But Phormio , the Athenian admiral , who was the foremost sea ...
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... attacking it , and yet never coming to actual conflict . In this way it became grad- ually contracted , for each ... attack in earn- est , and the Athenians , putting their helms to starboard , went crashing through the Corinthians ...
... attacking it , and yet never coming to actual conflict . In this way it became grad- ually contracted , for each ... attack in earn- est , and the Athenians , putting their helms to starboard , went crashing through the Corinthians ...
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