 | Godfrey Basil Mundy - 1836 - 316 페이지
...to every signal made, under the certain penalty of being instantly superseded, it had an admirable effect, as they were all convinced, after their late...captains, if out of their station, were instantly reprimanded by signals, or messages sent by frigates: and, in spite of themselves, I taught them to... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1882 - 408 페이지
...to every signal made, under the certain penalty of being instantly superseded, it had an admirable effect, as they were all convinced, after their late...they knew it would be fatal. No regard was paid to rank — admirals as well as captains, if out of their station, were instantly reprimanded by signals... | |
 | Sir William Laird Clowes, Sir Clements Robert Markham, Alfred Thayer Mahan, Herbert Wrigley Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, Leonard George Carr Laughton - 1898 - 668 페이지
...to every signal made, under the certain penalty of being instantly superseded, it had an admirable effect, as they were all convinced, after their late...enemy's fire, and they knew it would be fatal. No regard Avas paid to rank : admirals as well as captains, if out of their station, were instantly reprimanded... | |
 | Esther Meynell - 1910 - 382 페이지
...well shown in a letter in which he describes the state in which he kept his fleet and his officers : "My eye on them had more dread than the enemy's fire,...they knew it would be fatal. No regard was paid to rank, — admirals as well as captains, if out of their station, were instantly reprimanded by signals,... | |
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - 1912 - 292 페이지
...words subsequently: I gave public notice that I expected implicit obedience to every signal. made. My eye on them had more dread than the enemy's fire, and they knew it would be fatal. In spite of themselves I taught them to be what they had never been before — officers. It is to be... | |
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - 1913 - 382 페이지
...to every signal made, under the certain penalty of being instantly superseded, it had an admirable effect; as they were all convinced, after their late...they knew it would be fatal. No regard was paid to rank : admirals as well as captains, if out of their station, were instantly reprimanded by signals,... | |
 | William Milbourne James - 1926 - 490 페이지
...is evident that he did not inspire confidence in his subordinates or earn their love and respect. ' My eye on them had more dread than the enemy's fire and they knew it would be fatal ' ; ' My own captain is amongst the slow ones. I have given him notice that he shall not remain my... | |
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - 2004 - 270 페이지
...his words subsequently: I gave public notice that I expected implicit obedience to every signal.made. My eye on them had more dread than the enemy's fire, and they knew it would be fatal. In spite of themselves I taught them to be what they had never been before—officers. It is to be... | |
 | Noel Mostert - 2008 - 800 페이지
...his attitude to them after the de Guichen battle, remarked that 'after their late gross behaviour, they had nothing to expect at my hands but instant punishment to those who neglected their duty . . . admirals as well as captains, if out of their station . . .' But subsequent naval historians... | |
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My eye on them had more dread than the enemy's fire, and they knew it would be fatal. No regard was paid to rank — admirals as well as captains, if out of their station, were instantly reprimanded by signals or messages sent by frigates ; and, in spite... 