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| 17 | 198 | I was proud of my men and their View more quotes about ships">ships. |
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| 17 | 195 | Then, as the lines of Cos and Tyros had closed and deepened, to match formations with my task forces, the great encircling line of round ships had cast its net about them. |
| 17 | 196 | Hundreds of ships had turned to destroy these clumsy intruders, but, of these hundreds, great numbers discovered, too late, that they fought not common round ships but floating fortresses jammed with armed men, eager to engage. |
| 17 | 197 | And then I had seen fleet ships, in their fifties, come about to move against what they had taken to be a new wave of round ships, only to be taken off-guard by the rams and shearing blades of ships as swift and terrible as their own. |
| 17 | 198 | I was proud of my men and their ships. |
| 17 | 199 | I think they did well. |
| 17 | 200 | And I did not feel my strategies were negligible. |
| 17 | 201 | And yet, as I sat there, I felt that in time the weight of ships and numbers would be felt. |