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He seemed to give in to this, for he immediately signalled the Temeraire and Leviathan, which were abreast of us, to pass ahead; but in my opinion this was nothin' more than a sly joke of the Admiral, for he kept carrying on all sail on the Victory, so that it wasn't possible for these ships to obey the order. "We made the attack in two lines.
"Attend to those whom you can save," said he to the surgeon; "as for me, there is nothing to be done." Meanwhile he listened anxiously, noticing the discharges of artillery, seeking to divine the issue of the combat. The Redoutable had been attacked by the Temeraire and the Neptune at the moment when the French sailors were preparing to board the Victory.
Like Collingwood, he had got in advance of his squadron. The officers had begged of him to leave the vanguard to the Temeraire. "I am quite willing," said Nelson, "that the Temeraire should get in front if it can;" and spreading all sail on board the Victory, he advanced first against the enemy. Already his topmast had been struck, and fifty men placed hors de combat.
He soon quarrelled with the ambassador and returned to Paris. He was considered clever; he wrote little plays, which he set to music. Enthusiastically welcomed by the friends of Madame Dupin, he contributed to their amusements. "We began with the Engagement temeraire," says Madame d'Epinay in her Memoires: "it is a new play by M. Rousseau, a friend of M. de Francueil's, who introduced him to us.
What I had to say was, Certainly. But I checked him in that Falstaffian vein, urging considerations of time and cookery. In due sequence of events we drove up to the Temeraire, and alighted. A youth in livery received us on the door-step. 'Looks well, said Bullfinch confidentially. And then aloud, 'Coffee- room!
At the same time Captain Hardy, in the Temeraire, fell on board the Redoubtable on her other side, and the Fougueux, another o' the enemy, fell on board the Temeraire; so there we were four ships abreast a compact tier blazin' into each other like mad, with the muzzles of the guns touchin' the sides when they were run out, an' men stationed with buckets at the ports, to throw water into the shot-holes to prevent their takin' fire.
In the Ducal Palace are shown the rich tapestries found in the tent of Charles le Temeraire after his defeat before Nancy, and other relics of that Haroun-al-Raschid of his epoch, who bivouacked off gold and silver plate, and wore on the battle-field diamonds worth half a million.
At last, its work over as a battleship, or even as a training-ship for cadets, dragged by a doughty little steam-tug, it was headed for its last resting-place in the Thames, to be broken up for old timber. As the Temeraire hove in sight through the mist, a fellow-painter said to Turner: 'Ah, what a subject for a picture! and so indeed it proved.
The most modern of these types displaced no more than 14,000 tons, made no more than 18 knots, and carried primary batteries of 12-inch guns. Some improvement was made in the six ships of the Danton class which were built in 1911 and 1912. They displaced 18,000 tons, had armor from 9 to 12 inches thick and carried guns of 12-inch caliber. They correspond to the British ship Temeraire.
Again, speaking of Turner's Fighting Téméraire, he says: "Of all pictures of subjects not visibly involving human pain, this is, I believe, the most pathetic that was ever painted no ruin was ever so affecting as this gliding of the vessel to her grave."
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