28 Quotes About British-soldier

The ship was named the Bounty: I was appointed to command her on the 16th of August 1787.

This was the first day of our beginning to take up plants: we had much pleasure in collecting them for the natives offered their assistance and perfectly understood the method of taking them up and pruning them.

Very good wine was bought at ten pounds per pipe, the contract price; but the superior quality was fifteen pounds; and some of this was not much inferior to the best London Madeira.

The ship required to be caulked in every part for she was become so leaky that we had been obliged to pump every hour in our passage from Cape Horn.

On Thursday the 9th we had the misfortune to lose one of our seamen, James Valentine, who died in the night of an asthmatic complaint.

In the forenoon, after seeing that every person was clean, divine service was performed according to my usual custom on this day.

I gave directions that only nineteen tons of iron should be taken on board instead of the customary proportion which was forty-five tons.

They sowed the wind and now they are going to reap the whirlwind.

Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender.