At Vancouvers Well And Other Poems of South And North
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Seventeen years ago this People was the terror of the world. " And the living voice of his son, William Pitt, the younger, still moved the British Empire and the British fleet when Vancouver went forth upon his perilous enterprise. The " Instruc- tions " under which he was to sail were signed by the second Earl of Chatham, and by Hopkins, Hood, and Townshend.^ The famous captains and sea-warriors the elder Chatham had called into action did not doubt of England's destiny, despite the seeming di...saster of the loss of her American Colonies. It was the era of great British sailors, restoring the memory of the daring and skill of Drake and Grenville and Blake, Hawke and Rodney, Howe and Hood, and Alan Gardner, Jervis and Dundonald ; and in their wake came Nelson and Collingwood and Troubridge, all of them worthy of the lineage of the "mighty men of ^ The Additional Instructions bear the signatures of Chatham, Townshend, and Gardner. 143 144 HISTORICAL valour, " who set the world wondering at Cadiz and at Santa Cruz.
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