[38] Lord Fisher had himself suggested the use of the _Queen Elizabeth_ to Admiral Oliver the day before. Mr. Roch’s Minute, par. 17. [39] Majority Report, par. 69. Mr. Roch’s Minute, par. 18. [40] Majority Report, par. 94. [41] Dardanelles Commission; First Report, par. 68. [42] _Ibid._, par. 83. [43] Mr. Roch’s Minute, par. 22. [44] Dardanelles Commission; First Report, par. 88. [45] M. Augagneur, Minister of Marine, had visited London after the decision of January 13. He approved the subsequent plan, pronouncing it “prudent et prévoyant.” Mr. Roch’s Minute, par. 29. [46] Majority Report, pars. 86, 87; Mr. Roch’s Minute, pars. 25, 26. [47] Mr. Roch’s Minute, pars. 11 and 22. [48] Speech in House of Commons, March 20, 1917 (Hansard, 1783, 1784). [49] Mr. Roch’s Minute, par. 28. [50] Majority Report, pars. 89–93; Mr. Roch’s Minute, pars. 28, 29. [51] Dardanelles Commission; First Report, par. 92. [52] Speech in the House of Commons, March 20, 1917. [53] Mr. Archibald Hurd (“The Dardanelles Report,” _Fortnightly Review_, April 1917, pp. 587, 591) considers that a military force “was apparently a part of the original scheme.” But the whole evidence of the Report and of Mr. Churchill’s speech of March 20, 1917, appears to be against him. [54] Speech in House of Commons, March 20, 1917 (Hansard, 1789). Cf. Majority Report, par. 94, and Mr. Roch’s Minute, pars. 29, 32. [55] Majority Report, par. 95. [56] Majority Report, par. 96; Mr. Roch’s Minute, pars. 32, 33. [57] Mr. Asquith in the House of Commons, March 20, 1917 (Hansard, 1752). [58] Majority Report, pars. 100–103; Mr. Roch’s Minute, par. 38. [59] “Nor was his name unheard or unadored In ancient Greece; and in Ausonian land Men call’d him Mulciber; and how he fell From heaven they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o’er the crystal battlements: from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer’s day; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star, On Lemnos, the Ægean isle.” _Paradise Lost_, Book I. [60] _With the Fleet in the Dardanelles_, by William Harold Price, sometime Chaplain of the _Triumph_. [61] _“Manchester Guardian” History of the War._ [62] _The Immortal Gamble_, by A. T. Stewart and C. J. E. Peshall of the _Cornwallis_, p. 10. [63] Dardanelles Commission; Majority Report, par. 97. [64] _Ibid._, pars. 78–82. [65] _With the Fleet in the Dardanelles_, pp. 38–40. [66] Dardanelles Commission; First Report, par. 97. [67] _With the Fleet in the Dardanelles_, p. 66; the _Triumph_ was one of ships detailed for this operation. [68] Dardanelles Commission; Mr. Roch’s Minute, par. 43.