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"Why, sir," he explained, "I have word that a large force of the enemy is approaching to give battle. I am advancing to meet him." "Order a halt," said General Joffre abruptly. "But, but " began General Tromp in some confusion. "Order a halt, sir!" commanded General Joffre sternly. "Or," as he saw that General Tromp still hesitated, "shall I do it myself?"
Which shall it be?" General Tromp shifted nervously from one foot to the other, his hands twitching convulsively. Suddenly one hand leaped to his side. "I wouldn't do that," said Hal quietly, and turning General Tromp saw the lad's revolver pointed squarely at him, held in a steady hand. His hand dropped to his side again, and for some moments the traitor stood in silence.
Let him summon its tyrants, and tell us their doom, Though he sweep the black past like Van Tromp with his broom! The dream flashes by, for the west-winds awake On pampas, on prairie, o'er mountain and lake, To bathe the swift bark, like a sea-girdled shrine With incense they stole from the rose and the pine. Love bless him, joy crown him, God speed his career! Mr.
'You are Mr. Van Tromp? he returned roughly, and without taking any notice of the proffered hand. 'The same, sir, replied the Admiral. 'Pray be seated. 'No sir, said the Squire, point-blank, 'I will not be seated. I am told that you are an admiral, he added. 'No sir, I am not an admiral, returned Van Tromp, who now began to grow nettled and enter into the spirit of the interview.
Victorious Greatheart slept upon the field. By L. P. BROCKETT, A.M. Heroes have not been wanting in the history of maritime warfare, at any time in these last three hundred years. Holland points with pride to her gallant DeRuyter and Van Tromp, who made the little republic among the marshes and canals that yield tribute to the Zuyder Zee, famous the world over.
I'd have beaten him in another round," boasted Andy Foger. No one paid any attention to him. "Monsieur ezz plucky!" said the Frenchman, Perique. "I am honaired to shake his hand! He has broken all ze records!" "Dot's der best machine I effer saw," spoke the Dutchman, De Tromp, ponderously. "Shake hands!"
It was answered with war, the fierce naval war of 1652-1654, in which was exhibited that famous spectacle of the at first victorious Dutch admiral, Van Tromp, sweeping the English Channel with a broom at his masthead. Cromwell's act was confirmed by Charles II in 1660, and made the basis of the code which then her statesmen exalted as "The Great Maritime Charter of England."
My daughter is out, for the matter of that; I might ask you where she was, and what would you say to that? But this is all midsummer madness. Name your business distinctly, and be off. 'How often am I to tell you? cried the Squire. 'Where did your daughter take my son to-day in that cursed pony carriage? 'In a pony carriage? repeated Van Tromp. 'Yes, sir with luggage.
"It was thought after the lesson they had received that the Dutch would not again flaunt their flag in British waters, but before long the Dutch Admiral, Van Tromp, made his appearance in the Downs with a fleet of forty-two men-of-war and frigates. At the time Admiral Blake was cruising in the James off Eye, when the news reached him that Van Tromp was off Dover. He at once made sail.
After the English Navy had defeated the Spanish Armada in 1588 the Spaniards began, slowly but surely, to lose their chance of making a permanent Greater Spain. After the great Dutch War, when Blake defeated Van Tromp in 1653, there was no further chance of a permanent Greater Holland.
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