Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. (1899)
Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co · leaf 68
mirals. This quaint record of that early timegives the force afloat as 105 ships, 3840 guns, and 16,269 men. In Britainsstrife for that ocean empire, which is world empire, that fleet had grown, bythe year 1800, to 757 vessels, built or building, with an aggregate tonnage of629,211, and carrying… … BRITISH BATTLESHIP MAJESTIC.
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