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Zealous by contrast was barely touched: Hood had situated Zealous outside the arc of most of the French ship's broadside and in any case Guerrier was not prepared for an engagement on both sides simultaneously, with its port guns blocked by stores.
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Foley's attack was followed by Hood in Zealous, who also crossed the French line and successfully anchored next to Guerrier in the space Foley had intended, engaging the lead ship's bow from close range.
The remaining French vessels: the ships of the line Guillaume Tell and Généreux and the frigates Justice and Diane, formed up and stood out to sea, pursued by Zealous.
Despite strenuous efforts, Captain Hood's isolated ship came under heavy fire and was unable to cut off the trailing Justice as the French survivors escaped seawards, Zealous being struck by a number of French shot and losing one man killed.
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Although their ship was a wreck, the crew of Guerrier refused to surrender, continuing to fire the few functional guns whenever possible despite heavy answering fire from Zealous.
Zealous pursued, and was able to prevent the frigate Justice from boarding Bellerophon, which was anchored at the southern point of the bay undergoing hasty repairs.
The ships that suffered most were Bellerophon with 201 casualties and Majestic with 193, while other than Culloden the lightest loss was on Zealous, which had one man killed and seven wounded.
Both titles derive from the Hebrew word qana, meaning The Zealous, though Jerome and others mistook the word to signify the apostle was from the town of Cana, in which case his epithet would have been " Kanaios " or even from the region of Canaan.
In 1795, in Aigle, he was put in command of a squadron for the protection of Levantine commerce, and in early 1797 he was given command of the 74-gun ship of the line Zealous, in which he was present at Admiral Horatio Nelson's unsuccessful attack on Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
Darling was sympathetic to Morisset, calling him " a very Zealous Officer " whose duties were of " a most arduous nature ".
Zealous and Hood
At 17: 30, Nelson hailed one of his two leading ships, HMS Zealous under Captain Samuel Hood, which had been racing Goliath to be the first to fire on the French.
The admiral ordered Hood to establish the safest course into the harbour ; the British had no charts of the depth or shape of the bay except a rough sketch map Swiftsure had obtained from a merchant captain, an inaccurate British atlas on Zealous, and a 35-year old French map aboard Goliath.
On 19 August, Nelson sailed for Naples with Vanguard, Culloden and Alexander, leaving Hood in command of Zealous, Goliath, Swiftsure and the recently joined frigates to watch over French activities at Alexandria.
Zealous and most
Unlike Zealous, these British ships suffered relatively severe damage in the engagement ; Goliath lost most of its rigging, suffered damage to all three masts and received over 60 casualties.
Zealous and French
At 14: 00 on 1 August, lookouts on HMS Zealous reported the French anchored in Aboukir Bay, its signal lieutenant just beating the lieutenant on HMS Goliath with the signal, but inaccurately describing 16 French ships of the line instead of 13.
At 18: 20, as Goliath and Zealous rapidly bore down on them, the leading French ships Guerrier and Conquérant opened fire.
Zealous and Guerrier
Captain Jean-François-Timothée Trullet of Guerrier shouted orders from his barge for his men to return fire on Zealous.
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" Gabriel Naude: ' Most Erudite and Most Zealous for the Common Good ,'" Stechert-Hafner Book News 23 ( 5 January 1969 )
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( See: Symbol of Ayyavazhi ) Zealous devotees smear it on the exterior of the upper arms and over the chest.
Zealous devotees smeared it on the exterior of the upper arms, over the chest and below the spinal cord area at the back.
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On 10 August Nelson sent Lieutenant Thomas Duval from Zealous with messages to the government in India.
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This caused a gap to open up between Zealous and Goliath and the rest of the fleet.
To counter this effect, Nelson ordered HMS Theseus under Captain Ralph Miller to pass his flagship and join Zealous and Goliath in the vanguard.
Zealous missionaries carried their doctrines far and wide.
A Warm and Zealous Spirit: John J. Zubly and the American Revolution, A Selection of His Writings ; 1982, Mercer University Press, ISBN 0-86554-028-4.
* Tiernan, Sonja, ‘“ A Zealous Catholic and a Notorious Trouble-Maker :” The Gormanston Papers in the National Library of Ireland ’ in Ríocht na Mídhe: Meath Archaeological and Historical Society.
Zealous Puritan laymen received savage punishments.
The Greek letters " sigma " and " xi " form the acronym of the Society's motto, Σπουδῶν Ξυνῶνες or " Spoudon Xynones ," which translates as " Companions in Zealous Research.
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The sequence may involve a sharp contrast: for example, a quiet meditative sway of the body succeeded by a violent leap ; ;
The cyclist, by contrast, blond and blue-eyed, is simply unreflective, unproblematic Life, `` blithe and carefree ''.
I take the central meaning here to be the contrast between the drab empty quality of life without literature and a life enriched by it.
The limits are suggested by an imaginary experiment: contrast the perceptual skill of English professors with that of their colleagues in discriminating among motor cars, political candidates, or female beauty.
In contrast to this voluntary-control explanation for nonreactivity given by the Kohnstamm-positive subjects, the Kohnstamm-negative subjects offered an involuntary-control hypothesis to explain nonreactivity.
Phonemes connected by a morphophonemic rule commonly show a good bit of phonetic similarity, possible because of the several dimensions of contrast in the system.
These areas, by virtue of their abrupt density of pattern, stated the literal surface with such new and superior force that the resulting contrast drove the simulated printing into a depth from which it could be rescued -- and set to shuttling again -- only by conventional perspective ; ;
For the illusion of depth created by the contrast between the affixed material and everything else gives way immediately to an illusion of forms in bas-relief, which gives way in turn, and with equal immediacy, to an illusion that seems to contain both -- or neither.
And the surface is driven back, in its very surfaceness, only by this contrast.
and these capitals seem in turn to be pushed back by their placing, and by contrast with the corporeality of the woodgraining.
His personality appears more striking by contrast with Marina, who is -- perhaps purposely -- rather superficially characterized.
Pip imagines how Estella would look down upon Joe's hands, roughened by work in the smithy, and the deliberate contrast between her white hands and his blackened ones is made to symbolize the opposition of values between which Pip struggles -- idleness and work, artificiality and naturalness, gentility and commonness, coldness and affection -- in fact, between Satis House and the forge.
Today, by contrast it is a lively and colorful fruit, vegetable, and flower market.
Backstage was tomblike by contrast.
the similitude of God, by contrast, is that which makes a man a child of God and not merely a rational creature.
In contrast, the East is ably led by such stalwart heroes as Khrushchev, Tito, and Mao.
By contrast, the cursive developed out of the Nabataean alphabet in the same period soon became the standard for writing Arabic, evolving into the Arabic alphabet as it stood by the time of the early spread of Islam.
The term Building design professional ( or Design professional ), by contrast, is a much broader term including professionals who practice independently under an alternate profession, such as engineering professionals, or those who assist in the practice architecture under the supervision of a licensed architect, such as architectural technologists and intern architects.
In contrast, in systems of reincarnation, such as those in the Dharmic tradition, the nature of the continued existence is determined directly by the actions of the individual in the ended life, rather than through the decision of another being.
Birds of humid Andean forests include mountain-toucans, quetzals and the Andean Cock-of-the-rock, while mixed species flocks dominated by tanagers and Furnariids commonly are seen-in contrast to several vocal but typically cryptic species of wrens, tapaculos and antpittas.
In the hands of a skilled composer or arranger, the natural harmonics can be used to haunting melancholy effect or, by contrast, to create a charming pastoral flavor, as in the lilting " Ranz des Vaches " and works by Brahms, Rossini, and Britten cited below.
In contrast to the depictions of difficult labor above, an alternative version is presented in Amphitryon, a comedic play by Plautus.
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