Drake, Nelson and Napoleon eBook

Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 331 pages of information about Drake, Nelson and Napoleon.

Drake, Nelson and Napoleon eBook

Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 331 pages of information about Drake, Nelson and Napoleon.
Nelson, Horatio, Admiral Lord—­
  and contemporary admiration, 31
  and Fleet Tradition, 63
  joins Raisonable, 64
  joins Triumph, 64
  joins Agamemnon, 64
  loses right eye at siege of Calvi, 64
  loses right arm at Santa Cruz, 65
  created K.C.B., 65
  at the court of Naples, 65, 76 et seq., 141 et seq., 163 et seq.
  at the Nile, 66
  created Baron, 72
  and gambling scandal, 80, 150
  returns home after Nile, 81
  and Lady Hamilton, 65, 73, 76 et seq., 95, 97, 98 et seq., 159,
   210 et seq., 215, 216, 228, 231
  at battle of Copenhagen, 91,
  compared with Napoleon, 94, 218
  joins St. George, 95
  returns home in Kite, 98
  at Merton, 100, 210 et seq.
  letter to his niece, 111
  incident of gipsy’s prediction, 114
  and Carraciolli, 118 et seq., 279
  hatred of the French, 135, 173
  at Toulon, 136
  at Palermo, 149
  and starvation of Neapolitans, 151
  and “cracking on,” 155
  as “Duke of Thunder,” 167, 172
  homecoming via Magdeburg and Hamburg, 176
  and Ministers of State, 139, 174, 180 et seq., 210 et seq.
  and privateering, 181
  sails to West Indies, 197
  returns to England, 207
  gift of coffin to, 218
  joins Victory, 220
  and Calder, 221 et seq.
  at Trafalgar, 225 el seq.
  last letters, 226, 228, 231
  last prayer before battle, 231
  death in action, 240, 242 et seq.
  the nation’s sorrow, 256 et seq.
  Collingwood, compared with, 261
  chronological data, 363
Nelson and Collingwood (sea-song), 347
Nelson, Lady, 78, 84, 85, 86, 88
Newbolt, Sir H., 60
Nile, Battle of the, 66 et seq.
Nile, Battle of the (sea-song), 337
North, Lord, 329
Norton, Hon. Mrs., 108

O’Meara, Dr., 265, 295
Oquendo, 42
Orange, William the Silent, Prince of, 34
Orde, Sir John, 184, 185, 195, 196, 203

Pahlen, Count, 97
Parker, Sir Hyde, 89, 90, 91, 92, 184
Parma, Duke of, 42
Pasco, Yeoman of Signals, 235
Paul of Russia, 97
Philip of Spain, 17, 18, 26, 28, 32, 34, 36, 37, 40, 41, 42
Pichegru, 276
Pitt, William, 134, 213, 287, 289, 290, 296, 298, 299, 301, 303, 344, 318, 326, 327
Poems, 60, 274, 337
Pole, Sir Charles, 98

Radstock, Lord, 213, 214, 259
Raleigh, Sir Walter, 57
Recaldo, 42
Riou, Captain, 91
Roanoke, settlers of, rescue by Drake, 57, 58
Robespierre, 141
Rome, King of, 308
Romney, George, 73
Rosebery, Lord, 301
Rotherham, Captain, 237, 238
Ruffo, Cardinal, 286

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