Vulgar words in Deeds that Won the Empire - Historic Battle Scenes (Page 1)
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What examples are to be found in the tales here retold, not merely of heroic daring, but of even finer qualities--of heroic fortitude; of loyalty to duty stronger than the love of life; of the temper which dreads dishonour more than it fears death; of the patriotism which makes love of the Fatherland a passion.
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She carried, the American told the captain of the _Didon_, only twenty guns of light calibre, and her captain and officers were "so cocky" that if they had a chance they would probably lay themselves alongside even the _Didon_ and become an easy prey.
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The yellow sides and royal yards rigged aloft told the "cocky" _Phoenix_ that the big ship to leeward was a Frenchman, and, with all sails spread, she bore down in the chase.
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The marines of that ship, however, drawn up in a steady line across the deck, resisted the whole rush of the French boarders; and the British sailors, tumbling up from their guns, cutlass and boarding-pike in hand, and wroth with the audacity of the "French lubbers" daring to board the "cocky little _Phoenix_," with one rush, pushed fiercely home, swept the Frenchmen back on to their own vessel.