Quotes About Naval

Nimitz remarked that when he sent Spruance out with the fleet, "he was always sure286 he would bring it home; when he sent Halsey out, he did not know precisely what was going to happen." Halsey's boldness was in doubt seldom, his judgement and intellect often.

in Baltimore Harbor. While the U-boat haunted Americans

The White House, realized former naval officer Steve Bannon after a few weeks, was really a military base, a government-issue office with a mansion's façade and a few ceremonial rooms sitting on top of a secure installation under military command.

VJ had gone to the Naval Academy, where he competed as a powerlifter and developed a distaste for military customs such as short hair and addressing people by rank.

Later the island was turned into a leper colony, a lunatic asylum, and a naval base. The government had only recently turned the island back into a prison.

To the British frigates, shadowing them now at a distance of half a gunshot,

The seventy-four-gun Defence took advantage of the dark to have a closer look:

Villeneuve reached Cadiz on 22 August.

Even as the two admirals sat talking, the blockade was being joined by three new ships from England.

One of them was a three-decker,

But everyone on the British side knew Nelson had arrived.

Calder's flagship was the ninety-gun Prince of Wales.

He then ordered bread and cheese and butter and beer for every man at the guns.

The council of war took place aboard the Bucentaure on 8 October.

The first shot came from the carronade on the Victory's port fo'c'sle.

The hostile shore facing the British stretched now from the Friesian Islands in the north

the number of capital ships available for the invasion of England had almost doubled overnight.

carronade fired straight through the windows of the Bucentaure's upper cabin,

It was followed in sequence by the fifty broadside guns on the Victory's port side,

Even the saucy little schooner Pickle – a tiny thing, too small except to make herself useful to Blackwood's frigates

Lord Nelson promptly followed it up with two signals of his own.

They were aiming for the Straits of Gibraltar. It was the obvious place to intercept the French

It would take the fleets all day just to catch sight of each other, let alone come to quarters

By mid-afternoon, Villeneuve was forced to abandon any hope of getting his fleet out before dusk.