hide Matching Documents

The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.

Document Max. Freq Min. Freq
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation 8 0 Browse Search
Baron de Jomini, Summary of the Art of War, or a New Analytical Compend of the Principle Combinations of Strategy, of Grand Tactics and of Military Policy. (ed. Major O. F. Winship , Assistant Adjutant General , U. S. A., Lieut. E. E. McLean , 1st Infantry, U. S. A.) 2 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 2 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition. 2 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
View all matching documents...

Your search returned 17 results in 6 document sections:

Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, The voyage of M. John Locke to Jerusalem. (search)
we sayled betweene them both, and left S. Andrea on the left hand of us, and we had also kenning of another Iland called Lissa , all on the left hande, these three Ilands lie East and West in the sea, and at sunne setting we had passed them. 11 pomo is distant from Sant Andrea 18 miles, and S. Andrea from Lissa 10 miles, and Lissa from another Iland called Lezina, which standeth betweene the maine of Dalmatia and Lissa , tenne miles. This Iland is inhabited, and hath great plentie of wine anLissa from another Iland called Lezina, which standeth betweene the maine of Dalmatia and Lissa , tenne miles. This Iland is inhabited, and hath great plentie of wine and frutes and hereagainst we were becalmed. The 22 we had sight of another small Iland called Catza, which is desolate and on the left hand, and on the right hand, a very dangerous Iland called Pelagosa, this is also desolate, and lyeth in the midsLissa , tenne miles. This Iland is inhabited, and hath great plentie of wine and frutes and hereagainst we were becalmed. The 22 we had sight of another small Iland called Catza, which is desolate and on the left hand, and on the right hand, a very dangerous Iland called Pelagosa, this is also desolate, and lyeth in the midst of the sea betweene both the maines: it is very dangerous and low land, and it hath a long ledge of rockes lying out sixe miles in to the sea, so that many ships by night are cast away upon them. There is betweene Catza and Pelagosa 30 miles, a
Baron de Jomini, Summary of the Art of War, or a New Analytical Compend of the Principle Combinations of Strategy, of Grand Tactics and of Military Policy. (ed. Major O. F. Winship , Assistant Adjutant General , U. S. A., Lieut. E. E. McLean , 1st Infantry, U. S. A.), Advertisement (search)
ystems more or less complete of the tactics of battles, which could give but an imperfect idea of war, because they all contradicted each other in a deplorable manner. I fell back then, upon works of military history in order to seek, in the combinations of the great captains, a solution which those systems of the writers did not give me. Already had the narratives of Frederick the Great commenced to initiate me in the secret which had caused him to gain the miraculous victory of Leuthen (Lissa). I perceived that this secret consisted in the very simple manoeuvre of carrying the bulk of his forces upon a single wing of the hostile army; and Lloyd soon came to fortify me in this conviction. I found again, afterwards, the same cause in the first successes of Napoleon in Italy, which gave me the idea that by applying, through strategy, to the whole chess-table of a war (à tout l‘échiquier d'une guerre), this same principle which Frederick had applied to battles, we should have the ke
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Salomon, Haym 1740-1785 (search)
Salomon, Haym 1740-1785 Financier; born in Lissa, Prussian Poland, about 1740; came to the United States several years before the Revolutionary War, and settled in Philadelphia, Pa., as a merchant and banker: acquired a large fortune, which the United States government had the use of during the war, acted as paymaster-general of the French forces in the United States; and loaned money to the agents or ministers of foreign states and to the United States government, a large part of which was never repaid. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1785.
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), R. (search)
am is also applied to a ship provided with such an appendage. The great ship of Ptolemy Philopator had two heads. two sterns, and seven beaks, one of which was longer than the others. With the introduction of armor-plating the use of the ram has been revived in modern warfare. The first effective use made of it was by the Confederate Virginia, the captured Merrimac, sinking the United States ships Cumberland and Saratoga, in Hampton Roads, March 9, 1862. In the naval engagement at Lissa, in July, 1862, the Austrian admiral's ship Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian sank the Italian iron-clad Re d'italia by a well-delivered thrust of her ram. One of the rams built on the Clyde, in Scotland, for the Confederate States, but afterward purchased by the British government, is tans describe 1 by the Liverpool courier. : The iron hull has a coating of 19 inches of teak, and armor plates 4 1/2 inches thick, nearly the whole length of the side, but tapering in thickness at bow and
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), How the Confederacy changed naval Warfare. (search)
full of air, and many of her men lived for hours, perhaps for days, in consciousness of their fearful fate. Soon after this awful calamity the Iron Duke narrowly escaped the same terrible fate. The Vanguard went down with six hundred men. Of her whole crew not one escaped. A little later the Grosser Kurfurst foundered, carrying down her whole crew of over one thousand men. To balance this fearful suicidal destruction of armored ships, we can only point to the sinking, in the harbor of Lissa, of an Italian ironclad by an Austrian, during the late war between Austria and Italy. Napoleon's great fleet attempted to enter one of the German Baltic ports during the Franco-Prussian war. Colonel Von Sheliha, the engineer who had so well guarded Mobile with torpedoes, was charged by Von Moltke with the torpedo defence of the German ports. In entering one of them, the leading French ship was struck by a torpedo, whereupon the whole of that great fleet returned to Cherbourg, where it
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 12: (search)
ug. Silesia in a pitched battle, Frederic repaired to the West, to encounter the united army of the Imperialists and French. I can leave you no large garrison, was his message to Fink at Dresden; but be of good cheer; to keep the city will do you vast honor. On his way, he learns that the Austrians have won a victory over Winterfeld and Bevern, his generals in Sept. Silesia, that Winterfeld had fallen, that Bevern had retreated to the lake near Breslau, and was opposed by the Austrians at Lissa. On the eighth of September, the day after the great disaster in Silesia, the Duke of Cumberland, having been defeated and compelled to retire, signed for his army and for Hanover a convention of neutrality. Oeuvres de Fred. II., III. 132, 133. Here, said George the Second, on meeting the Duke, is my son, who has ruined me and disgraced himself. Voltaire advised Frederic to imitate Cumberland. If every string breaks, wrote Frederic to the Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick, throw yourself int