For the magnificent display made by one and all on the occasion, Admiral Cornwallis and the captains of his squadron were thanked by both Houses of Parliament, while every ordinary seaman on board the ships was specially rated 'A.B.'[77] Of his men, indeed, Cornwallis himself said in his official despatch, 'Could common prudence have allowed me to let loose their valour on the enemy, I hardly know what might not have been accomplished by such men.' The last survivor of Cornwallis's squadron, one of the midshipmen of the flagship _Royal Sovereign_, died in the year 1869. 'Billy Blue'[78] himself lived to command the Channel Fleet in the great war with Napoleon, and, in conjunction with Nelson at the head of the Mediterranean Fleet, to save England from invasion in 1805, when the Grand Army stood on the heights above Boulogne every day expecting an opportunity to cross over, 'battling,' in the words of Captain Mahan, 'the wild gales of the Bay of Biscay in that tremendous and sustained vigilance concerning which Collingwood wrote that "Admirals need be made of iron."' A man-of-war of 74 guns, a model of which is one of the treasures of the Royal United Service Institution at Whitehall, was in 1813 named the _Cornwallis_ in honour of Admiral Cornwallis, and that ship's immediate successor is our fine modern battleship the _Cornwallis_ of to-day. [Illustration: THE 'FIGHTING' _TEMERAIRE_ TUGGED TO HER LAST BERTH TO BE BROKEN UP From the engraving by J.T. Willmore, A.R.A., after the picture by J.M.W. Turner, R.A., in the National Gallery. [This print of Turner's _Temeraire_ differs from the painting. The sky was engraved by R. Dickens principally in dry-point, and was toned down by J.T. Willmore; the ship and tug were engraved in line by Saddler. The rigging of the _Temeraire_ and the mast and funnel of the tug do not correspond with the picture at the National Gallery, but Turner permitted it as making a better engraving.]] FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 67: _Evelyn's Diary_, July 16, 1641.] [Footnote 68: The court-martial was held at Chatham on January 27, 1696, and comprised two admirals and seventeen captains. The minutes of the evidence and the sentence are in the Public Record Office. (_Admiralty (Secretary's Dept.) In-Letters_, 5256.)] [Footnote 69: Public Record Office, _Admiralty Out-Letters_: Order of October 29, 1697.] [Footnote 70: Sir Cloudesley Shovel is the popular form of the name. It is here given as the admiral himself spelled it.] [Footnote 71: The Naval Medal was granted for Cornwallis's Retreat with a clasp inscribed '17 June 1795.' The _Gazette_ notification records the service that the medal was granted for thus: 'Brilliant repulse of a fleet four times superior in force.']