# A Tradition of Victory

- Author: [Douglas Reeman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-reeman.md)
- Quotes: 6
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-reeman/a-tradition-of-victory

## Quotes

> He was ashamed and embarrassed, angry too that such a man could end like this. If peace did eventually come, there would be many more redcoats begging in the streets.

> Each gun-captain was a king, every breech a small demanding kingdom.

> You know how sailors love to create mystery where there is none.

> It was a harsh school, right enough ... but a lot of good had come from it.The petty tyrants and bullies were fewer now, for braggarts had little to sustain them in the face of an enemy broadside.

> How they must hate us, he thought. The dogged, storm-dashed ships which were always there at the break of every day. Waiting to dash in and seize a prize under the enemy's nose, or scurry to rouse the main fleet ...

> No wonder the lookout was amazed. There were deozens of them, some moored in pairs, others, possibly gun-brigs or bombs, anchored separately, a veritable armada of small ships [....] and there they were, like a phalanx of Roman soldiers on the march, six lines of small vessels under sail. In the bright glare even the pendants and ensigns looked stiff, like lances.