...the Sicilian Governors. " Thanks to your exertions " — thus writes Nelson to the Hamiltons — " we have victualled and watered ; and surely, watering...either crowned with laurel or covered with cypress." To his chief, Earl St. Vincent, he wrote also, and bade him be convinced that if the French were above...

...was still full of hope. " Thanks to your exertions," said he, writing to Sir W. and Lady Hamilton, " we have victualled and watered ; and surely watering...water he would find them out — he still held his opin1on that they were bound for Egypt ; " but," said he to the First Lord of the Admiralty, " be they...

...lovely friend rendered him on this occasion. He wrote at the time, — " Thanks to your exertions, we have victualled and watered ; and surely, watering...either crowned with laurel or covered with cypress." He wrote before going into action at Trafalgar a codicil to his will setting forth how much this country...

...Thanks to your exertions' — thus writes Nelson to the 1798 BATTLE OF THE NILE. 287 Hamiltons — 'we have victualled and watered; and surely, watering...we must have victory. We shall sail with the first hreeze ; and be assured I will return either crowned with laurel or covered with cypress.' To his chief,...

...before' the battle of the Nile, must have written metaphorically to Lady Hamilton, when he said, " We have victualled and watered, and surely, watering...at the fountain of Arethusa, we must have victory." The Passégio Arethusa is a pleasant walk on the sea wall, planted with geranium, pepper, convolvulus,...

...before, the battle of the Nile, must have written metaphorically to Lady Hamilton, when he said, " We have victualled and watered, and surely, watering...at the fountain of Arethusa, we must have victory." The Passégio Arethusa is a pleasant walk on the sea wall, planted with geranium, pepper, convolvulus,...

...grateful lines to the Hamiltons : "22nd July, 1798. " MY i >i: AK FBIENDS, — Thanks to your exertions, we have victualled and •watered ; and surely, watering...either crowned with laurel, or covered with cypress. " HOKATIO NELSON." He sailed next day, and, in consequence of information received, directed his course...

...represented to have written, to Sir William and Lady Hamilton : ' My dear Friends, Thanks to your exertions we have victualled and watered, and surely watering...shall sail with the first breeze, and be assured I shall return either crowned with laurel or covered with cypress.'* On the 21st October 1805, he wrote...

...letter to Sir William and Lady Hamilton : — uly 1798. " MY DEAR FRIEXDS, — Thanks to your exertions, we have victualled and watered ; and surely watering...victory. We shall sail with the first breeze, and he assured I will return either crowned with laurel or covered with cypress." On the next day he addressed...

...written from Syracuse on 22nd July, 1798, and runs : ' " MY DBAS FRIENDS, — Thanks to your exertions, we have victualled and watered ; and surely watering at the fountain of Arethusa, wo must have victory. We shall sail with the first breeze, and be assured I will return either crowned...