Excerpt from Pen Pictures of British Battles: Painted by Author and Artist The signal was given, Open fire and engage the enemy, and the Inflexible began the battle, followed a few minutes later by the Invincible. This firing was at a range Of about nine miles no opportunities for boarding here, cutlass in teeth, and pistols in both hands - but the British gunnery was SO good that three Of the German ships turned away. Then the Glasgow, with the Cornwall and the Kent, gave chase. We shall follow their work when we have considered that Of the heavier craft. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.