[Footnote 112: Admiral Dumanoir, writing from Tiverton in Devon, where he was interned as a prisoner of war, to the _Times_ on January 2, 1806, in reply to certain adverse comments on his conduct, pleads that he was 'handled very severely' in his attack. Dumanoir and his ships were intercepted off Cape Finisterre, ten days after Trafalgar, and captured bodily by Sir Richard Strachan's squadron. One of his ships is afloat to this day, our only existing Trafalgar prize, and with the _Victory_ the last left of all that fought at Trafalgar--the Devonport training-ship _Implacable_. The _Implacable_ fought at Trafalgar as the _Duguay Trouin_. On being taken into the British service in 1806, the Admiralty gave the ship her present name.] [Footnote 113: Marshall's _Naval Biography_, vol. i. part i. p. 275.] [Footnote 114: Collingwood sent off his first short despatch announcing the battle and Nelson's death, by the _Pickle_, a 4-gun schooner, on the 26th of October. The completed despatch gave full details of the battle and the casualty lists from most of the ships.] [Footnote 115: Vice-Admiral Pierre Charles Jean Baptiste Sylvestre de Villeneuve-Flayosc was born on December 31, 1763, five years after Nelson. He became _garde de la Marine_ at fifteen. At the Revolution he dropped the _particle nobiliaire_ from his name, and was thenceforward known simply as Villeneuve. Napoleon took a fancy to him after Villeneuve's escape from the battle of the Nile, as a 'lucky man,' and to that fancy Villeneuve owed his command at Trafalgar.] [Footnote 116: Grand Master Helion de Villeneuve, Grand Master of Rhodes; buried at Malta: Sainte Roseleyne de Villeneuve, Abbess of La Celle Roubaud.] [Footnote 117: _Gentleman's Magazine_, 'Domestic Occurrences,' September 16, 1838.] [Footnote 118: See _Notes and Queries_, 7th Series, vol. vi. p. 371.] [Footnote 119: Messrs. H. Castle and Sons, of the Baltic Wharf, Millbank, S.W., to whose courtesy the author is indebted for the photographs of the two figures here reproduced.] [Footnote 120: Ruskin, _Notes on the Turner Collection_, pp. 81-82.] VI 'WELL DONE, CONDOR!' ALEXANDRIA, 1882 But little recked they of doubts or fears that vexed the soul of the wise, They did as the world did round them, and they claimed their share of the prize. Sir Rennell Rodd. The modern story of what Lord Charles Beresford's _Condor_ did at the bombardment of Alexandria on the 11th of July 1882 closes our series. Everybody knows in a general way something about it, but the details of the fight deserve attention on their own account. It was no doubt only one incident of the day, but all the same it was a good piece of work. * * * * * This briefly is how the situation came into being at the outset.