. Annals of commerce, manufactures, fisheries and navigation [microform] : with brief notices of the arts and sciences connected with them, containing the commercial transactions of the British Empire and other countries from the earliest accounts to the meeting of the Union Parliament in January 1801 ... with a large appendix ... with a general chronological index .... Commerce; Fisheries; Navigation; Commerce; Pêches; Navigation. Ji fe» eugagement* they ftill preferved the antiem femicitxjular line of Itatwaing the ilroni ft vefleU in the wings, or points, with a view to inclofe the
. Annals of commerce, manufactures, fisheries and navigation [microform] : with brief notices of the arts and sciences connected with them, containing the commercial transactions of the British Empire and other countries from the earliest accounts to the meeting of the Union Parliament in January 1801 ... with a large appendix ... with a general chronological index .... Commerce; Fisheries; Navigation; Commerce; Pêches; Navigation. Ji fe» eugagement* they ftill preferved the antiem femicitxjular line of Itatwaing the ilroni ft vefleU in the wings, or points, with a view to inclofe the enemy as in a net. The foldie«, ftationed on the upper deck, (or on the raifed platform or forecaftle, • fupcrioribus tabu- latM.),qi^e a clefe bulwark of their (hields; and, to give them free room to fight, the rowefs fat together below. When the hoftile fleet* approached, the found of the trumpets and the Aouts of the men gave the fignal for the engagement, which commenced with a difcharge of miffile weapons on both fides: the fharp beaks, or fpurs, were forcibly dalbed agaraft the enemy's fides: the oars were entangled: and the hof-^ tile vefiels being grappled together, a clofe fight enfued, whUe the en- gineers endeavoured to bum their enemy's fhips with the Greek fire which was now in common ufe with the Turks and Saracens, as well as t^e, Cl>j:iftians. ^f^:!'*-^u''ing tlic fiege of Aeon a battle was fought between th« Chnmans and the Turks upon the fea. In one galiev the Turks got poUcflion of the upper tire of oars, and the Chriftians retaining the low- er tire, they pulled the veifel different ways *. While Richard was on hisvpa^Tage from Cypr«&to Paleftine, he feU m with a very large fhip loaded with warUke ftores and provifions, and hai«» mg onboard, according to the raoft moderate and probable account,* eight hundred foldiert for the relief of the grrrifon of Aeon. She car-* ried three very lofty marts; but her fails were of little avail to her for
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