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The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1
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BRITISH CROSSES AND MEDALS.—(Coloured Frontispiece.)
| 1. Medal of Elizabeth. (Defeat of the Armada, 1588.) | ||||||
| 2. Crimea Medal and Naval Clasp for Azoff (1854-6). | 5. Naval Medal of Commonwealth (1650). | 3. China Medal with Two Naval Clasps (1857-58). | ||||
| 4. Naval War Medal Ribbon (1793, 1840). | 6. Conspicuous Gallantry Ribbon (1854, 1874). | |||||
| 7. Naval Medal of Commonwealth (Blake’s Victories over the Dutch) (1653). | 8. Naval Medal of Charles II. | 9. Naval Medal of Commonwealth (Blake’s Victories over the Dutch) (1653). | ||||
| 10. Collar of the Order of the Bath. | ||||||
| 11. Good Conduct and Long-service Medal. | 12. Baltic Medal (1854). | |||||
| 13. Victoria Cross with Naval Ribbon. | 15. Albert Medal (Sea). | |||||
| 14. Badge of the Knights of the Bath (Military and Naval Division). | ||||||
The Sea
Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism.
Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism.
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LONDON, PARIS & NEW YORK.
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CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER I. | |
| MEN-OF-WAR. | PAGE |
| Our Wooden Walls—The Victory—Siege of Toulon—Battle of St. Vincent—Nelson’s Bridge—Trafalgar’s Glorious Day—The Day for such Battles gone—Iron v. Wood—Lessons of the Crimean War—Moral Effect of the Presence of our Fleets—Bombardment of Sebastopol—Red-hot Shot and Gibraltar—The Ironclad Movement—The |