Famous Fighters of the Fleet: Glimpses through the Cannon Smoke in the Days of the Old NavyFraser, Edward
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Famous Fighters of the Fleet: Glimpses through the Cannon Smoke in the Days of the Old Navy
Fraser, Edward
Great Britain -- History, Naval; Naval battles -- Great Britain
[Footnote 94: Admiral Duncan at Camperdown, eight years before,
attacked in a double column formation, but the circumstances otherwise
were totally different.]
[Footnote 95: _Memoirs and Services of General Sir S.B. Ellis, K.C.B.,
of the Royal Marines_, p. 4. General Ellis was a second lieutenant of
Marines in the _Ajax_ at Trafalgar.]
[Footnote 96: Letter from Lieut. W. Price Cumby, first lieutenant of
the _Bellerophon_.]
[Footnote 97: _Personal Narrative of Events_, Vice-Admiral Wm. Stanhope
Lovell (formerly Badcock), p. 45.]
[Footnote 98: James's _Naval History_, vol. iii. p. 391.]
[Footnote 99: Lieut. P. Harris Nicolas, Royal Marines, in the _Memoir
of Admiral Sir William Hargood, G.C.B._, Appendix E, p. 279.]
[Footnote 100: Episodios Nacionales, par B. Perez Galdos. _Trafalgar_,
p. 157. Octava edicion. Madrid, 1893.]
[Footnote 101: _Combat de Trafalgar. Rapport fait au Ministre de la
Marine et des Colonies_, par E. Lucas, commandant le _Redoutable_, etc.
Published by H. Letuaire. Hyeres, 1891.]
[Footnote 102: There were nearly 4000 French soldiers distributed among
Admiral Villeneuve's fleet, mostly embarked for the West Indies when it
originally sailed from Toulon.]
[Footnote 103: _Personal Narrative of Events_, Vice-Admiral Wm.
Stanhope Lovell (formerly Badcock), pp. 46, 47.]
[Footnote 104: 'Les grenades pleuvent des hunes du
_Redoutable_.'--_Monumens des Victoires et Conquetes des Francais_,
vol. xvi. p. 174.]
[Footnote 105: A terrible account of the awful carnage and destruction
caused on board the _Fougueux_ by the _Temeraire's_ broadside is given
in a letter by Captain Pierre Servaux of the Marine Artillery on board
the French ship, which was published in Paris in the _Figaro_ on the
21st of October 1898.]
[Footnote 106: 6th May 1806. _Biographie Maritime, etc._, par M.
Hennequin, Chef de Bureau au Ministere de la Marine. Paris, 1837; vol.
iii. p. 85. Captain Lucas was born in 1764, and died in 1819. Two
pictures of 'The _Redoutable_ at Trafalgar' have been exhibited at the
Salon.]
[Footnote 107: _Histoire de la Marine Francaise sous le Consulat et
L'Empire_, par E. Chevalier, p. 214. See also _Monumens des Victoires
et Conquetes des Francais_, vol. xvi.]
[Footnote 108: See Rear-Admiral Hercules Robinson's _Sea-Drift_, p.
208.]
[Footnote 109: _Life of Admiral Viscount Exmouth_, by Edward Osler,
Appendix A, p. 377.]
[Footnote 110: Vice-Admiral Alava in the _Santa Ana_, who had
surrendered to Collingwood in the _Royal Sovereign_.]
[Footnote 111: Rear-Admiral Don B. Hidalgo Cisneros.]
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