 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 448 pages
...gallies of Genseric assaulted them with" temperate and disciplined valour ; and many of the Rotoians; who escaped the fury of the flames, were destroyed...heroic, or rather desperate, courage of John, one 6f the principal officers of Basiliscus, has rescued his name from oblivion. When the ship, which he... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1827 - 542 pages
...themselves from the fire-ships, and to save at least a part of the navy, the galleys of Genseric assaulted them with temperate and disciplined valour ; and many...were destroyed or taken by the victorious Vandals. 1 Theophanes (p. 100.) affirms, that many ships of the Vandals were sunk. The assertion of Jornandes,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1831 - 468 pages
...themselves from the fire-ships, and to save at least a part of the navy, the galleys of Genseric assaulted them with temperate and disciplined valour ; and many...Among the events of that disastrous night, the heroic, 6r rather desperate, courage of John, one of the principal officers of Basiliscus, has rescued his... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1832 - 384 pages
...themselves from thejire-ships, and to save at least a part of the navy, the gallies of Genseric assaulted them with temperate and disciplined valour ; and many...were destroyed or taken by the victorious Vandals. After the • Gibbon's Hist. pp. 187, 188. failure of this great expedition, Genseric again became... | |
 | Alexander Keith - Bible - 1832 - 392 pages
...themselves from the fire-ships, and to save at least a part of the navy, the gallies of Genseric assaulted them with temperate and disciplined valour ; and many of the Romans who escaped the fury of the flames we/e destroyed or taken by the victorious Vandals. After the failure of this great expedition, Genseric... | |
 | Josiah Litch - Religion - 1842 - 264 pages
...least a part of the navy, the galleys of Genseric assaulted them with temperate and disciplined valor ; and many of the Romans who escaped the fury of the...were destroyed or taken by the victorious Vandals. After the failure of this great expedition, Genseric again became the ' tyrant of the sea;' the coasts... | |
 | Francis H. Berick - Religion - 1854 - 394 pages
...least a part of the navy, the galleys of Genseric assaulted them with temperate and disciplined valor, and many of the Romans, who escaped the fury of the...were destroyed or taken by the victorious Vandals.* After the failure of this great expedition, Genseric again became the tyrant of the sea : the coasts... | |
 | James H. Braund - 1870 - 524 pages
...the galleys of Genseric assaulted them with temperate and disciplined valour ; and many of the Komans who escaped the fury of the flames, were destroyed or taken by the victorious Vandals. Basiliscus, whose station was the most remote from danger, disgracefully fled in the beginning of the... | |
 | Uriah Smith - Bible - 1881 - 438 pages
...least a part of the navy, the galleys of Genseric assaulted them with temperate and disciplined valor ; and many of the Romans who escaped the fury of the...were destroyed or taken by the victorious Vandals. After the failure of this great expedition, Genseric again became the tyrant of the sea; the coasts... | |
 | Uriah Smith - Bible - 1882 - 876 pages
...least a part of the navy, the galleys of Genseric assaulted them with temperate and disciplined valor; and many of the Romans who escaped the fury of the...were destroyed or taken by the victorious Vandals. After the failure of this great expedition, Genseric again became the tyrant of the :sea; the coasts... | |
| |
Whilst they labored to extricate themselves from the fire-ships, and to save at least a part of the navy, the galleys of Genseric assaulted them with temperate and disciplined valor ; and many of the Romans who escaped the fury of the flames, were destroyed... 
