Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 242William Blackwood, 1937 - England |
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Page 37
... British Navy was sapped by the scandalous corruption , embezzlement , and graft rampant at Westminster and White . hall , and prevalent in the dockyard and victualling stores . See James , ' The British Navy in Adversity , ' pp . 14 ...
... British Navy was sapped by the scandalous corruption , embezzlement , and graft rampant at Westminster and White . hall , and prevalent in the dockyard and victualling stores . See James , ' The British Navy in Adversity , ' pp . 14 ...
Page 47
... British side the most important event in December was the arrival of two ordnance store ships . And so ended the third year of this great siege during which 264 of the garrison had died - 147 of them killed in action , the figures for ...
... British side the most important event in December was the arrival of two ordnance store ships . And so ended the third year of this great siege during which 264 of the garrison had died - 147 of them killed in action , the figures for ...
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... British pair , but only one Spanish frigate found them , and she was forced to surrender and was sunk . The Success ... British vessels galled and irritated the garrison , who had always felt that the British Navy , as if by some divine ...
... British pair , but only one Spanish frigate found them , and she was forced to surrender and was sunk . The Success ... British vessels galled and irritated the garrison , who had always felt that the British Navy , as if by some divine ...
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