Quotes with seamen

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• There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.

  Thomas B. Macaulay
  American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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• We have a wretched motley crew, in the fleet; the marines the refuse of every regiment, and the seamen, few of them, ever wet with salt water.

  Letter to General Gates (21 September 1776), in Battle of Valcour on Lake Champlain, October 11th, 1776 by Peter Sailly Palmer(1876) p. 5

  Benedict Arnold
  American military officer (1741 - 1801)
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• We have but very indifferent men in general. Great part of those who ship for seamen know very little of the matter.

  Letter to General Gates (7 September 1776), in Battle of Valcour on Lake Champlain, October 11th, 1776 by Peter Sailly Palmer(1876) p. 5

  Benedict Arnold
  American military officer (1741 - 1801)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• indifferent
• wretched
• regiment
• general
• refuse
• little

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