"Gulf of Corinth" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... fresh westerly wind arose, as it does at this day in that region, and as it did some years later during a battle won by an Athenian admiral in the Gulf of Corinth.[1] This wind blows every morning with considerable violence for about two hours; and in this battle it must have tended to make the bows of the Persian ships pay off—thus exposing their sides to the Greek rams—and drift back ...
— A History of Sea Power • William Oliver Stevens and Allan Westcott |
