Chapter XXXII: Appendix: Some Incidents of Nelson's Life

(_Chronologically arranged_)

1758. On 29th September he was born.

1767. On 26th December his mother died.

1771. On 1st January a Midshipman aboard the _Raisonable_.

1771. On 22nd May sent a voyage in merchant ship to West Indies, possibly as cabin-boy.

1772. On 19th July was Midshipman on _Triumph_.

1773. On 7th May was Midshipman on _Carcass_.

1773. On 15th October was Midshipman on _Triumph_.

1773. On 27th October was Midshipman on _Seahorse_.

1774. On 5th April becomes Able Seaman on _Seahorse_.

1775. On 31st October is again Midshipman on _Seahorse_.

1776. On 15th March becomes Midshipman on _Dolphin_.

1776. On 24th September is paid off from _Dolphin_.

1776. On 26th September becomes Acting-Lieutenant on _Worcester_.

1777. On 9th April passed examination.

1777. On 10th April is Lieutenant of _Lowestoft_.

1778. On 2nd July changes to Lieutenant of _Bristol_.

1778. On 8th December is appointed Commander of _Badger_.

1779. On 10th June is made Captain of _Hinchinbroke_.

1780. In January joins expedition to San Juan and Grenada, Nicaragua.

1780. On 2nd May he is made Captain of the _Janus_.

1780. On 1st September is invalided from _Janus_.

1780. On 4th September sailed in the _Lion_ for home

1780. On 24th November arrived at Spithead and went to Bath.

1781. On 23rd August he became Captain of _Albemarle_.

1782. On 17th April sailed in _Albemarle_ to North America.

1783. On 3rd July paid off from _Albemarle_.

1783. On 23rd October visited France.

1784. On 17th January back in England.

1784. On 18th March Captain of _Boreas_.

1784. On 15th May at Leeward Islands in _Boreas_.

1787. On 12th March married Widow Nesbit.

1787. On 4th July arrived Spithead in _Boreas_.

1787. On 30th November paid off, put on half pay, and resided mainly at Burnham Thorpe while on shore.

1793. On 26th January joined _Agamemnon_ as Captain.

1793. On 6th June sailed for the Mediterranean.

1793. On 13th July blockaded Toulon.

1793. On 24th August Toulon is occupied and _Agamemnon_ is ordered to Naples. A very full year's work.

1794. On 4th April, Siege of Bastia begun.

1794. On 22nd May, Bastia surrendered:

1794. On 19th June, Siege of Calvi.

1794. On 10th July wounded in the right eye.

1794. On 10th August, Calvi surrendered.

1795. On 13th March Hotham's first action.

1795. On 13th July Hotham's second action.

1795. On 15th July sent with a squadron to co-operate with the Austrians on the coast of Genoa.

1795. On 29th November Sir John Jervis took command of fleet.

1796. On 4th April he is ordered to hoist a distinguishing pennant.

1796. On 4th June shifted his broad pennant to the _Captain_.

1796. On 11th August appointed Commodore of the first class.

1796. On 10th December joined the _Minerva_.

1796. On 20th December captured the Spanish frigate _La Sabina_.

1797. On 13th February rejoined the _Captain_.

1797. On 14th December joined the _Irresistible_ at the BATTLE OF ST. VINCENT.

1797. On 20th December is Rear-Admiral of the Blue.

1797. On 17th March was created Knight of the Bath.

1797. On 24th March joined the _Captain_ again.

1797. On 1st April news of his promotion.

1797. On 24th May hoisted his flag on _Theseus_.

1797. On 24th July his right arm badly wounded while leading attack on Santa Cruz, which was repulsed. Arm amputated.

1797. On 20th August joins _Seahorse_, bound for England.

1797. On 1st September arrived at Spithead, lowers his flag, and proceeds to Bath to recoup his health.

1797. On 27th September has the Order of the Bath conferred on him.

1798. On 29th March joined the _Vanguard_.

1798. On 30th April arrived off Cadiz.

1798. On 7th June Troubridge reinforces Nelson's squadron of observation by adding ten sail of the line.

1798. On 17th June is off Naples in search of the French fleet.

1798. On 18th June, arrives off Alexandria.

1798. August 1st and 2nd, BATTLE OF THE NILE.

1798. On 22nd September arrives at Naples and is received with great rejoicing. On the 29th Sir William and Lady Hamilton give a grand fete in honour of him. The great battle establishes his fame as the greatest Admiral in the world.

1798. On 6th November he is created Baron Nelson of the Nile and Burnham Thorpe.

1798. On 23rd December he sailed for Palermo with the King of Naples and his family aboard.

1798. On 26th December arrives at Palermo and is much gratified by his reception as a popular hero.

1799. On 5th April he changed his flag from blue to red.

1799. On 8th June joins the _Foudroyant_.

1799. On 24th June arrives off Naples and cancels the agreement of capitulation of the forts.

1799. On 29th June has the aged Admiral Prince Carraciolo hung at the _Minerva's_ fore yardarm at the instigation of Lady Hamilton and the royal profligates of Naples. This act remains a blot on his name.

1799. July 13th to 19th disobeyed Admiral Keith's orders to proceed to Minorca.

1799. On 29th July becomes Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean.

1799. On 8th August returns again to Palermo.

1799. On 13th August he is created Duke of Bronte.

1799. On 5th October sails for Port Mahon, Minorca.

1799. On 22nd October again returns to Palermo.

1800. On 6th January is officially notified that Lord Keith is reappointed to command in Mediterranean, which gives him offence.

1800. On 18th February he captures _Le Genereux_.

1800. On 30th March also captures _Le Guillaume Tell_.

1800. On 13th July hauls his flag down at Leghorn and proceeds home, visiting Trieste, Vienna, Dresden, and Hamburg. Is received everywhere as a monarch.

1800. On 6th November he arrives at Yarmouth.

1801. On 1st January becomes Vice-Admiral of the Blue.

1801. On 13th January he is separated from his wife.

1801. On 17th January hoists his flag on the _San Josef_.

1801. On 29th January Lady Hamilton gives birth to his daughter Horatia.

1801. On 12th February joins the _St. George_.

1801. On 12th March sails from Yarmouth Roads for the Sound.

1801. On 29th March joins the _Elephant_.

1801. On 2nd April the BATTLE OF COPENHAGEN. He again rejoins the _St. George_.

1801. On 5th May appointed Commander-in-Chief in the Baltic.

1801. On 22nd May is created Viscount Nelson of the Nile and Burnham Thorpe.

1801. On 19th June resigns command and sails in the brig _Kite_ for Yarmouth, where he arrives on July 1st.

1801. On 2nd July is appointed Commander-in-Chief of the squadron defending the South-East Coast.

1801. On 16th August attacked Boulogne flotilla unsuccessfully.

1802. On 10th April hauled his flag down and took up his residence at Merton.

1802. On 26th April his father died.

1803. On 6th April his friend, Sir William Hamilton, died in Emma's arms.

1803. 16th May, Commander-in-Chief again in the Mediterranean.

1803. On 20th May sailed from Spithead in _Victory_.

1803. On 21st May his flag shifted to the _Amphion_.

1803. On 8th July arrives off Toulon.

1803. On 30th July rejoins the _Victory_ and keeps up a steady blockade of Toulon until April 1805, and is troubled in body and soul.

1804. On 23rd April Vice-Admiral of WHITE SQUADRON.

1804. On 18th August death of his aversion, the immortal Admiral La Touche-Treville.

1805. On 17th January the French fleet sailed from Toulon, and falling in with stormy weather, their ships were disabled and put back for repairs.

1805. On 8th February Nelson arrives off Alexandria in search of French.

1805. On 9th March is off Toulon again, and

1805. On 1st April is in Pula Roads.

1805. On 4th April gets news that the Frenchmen have sailed again from Toulon, on the 30th April.

1805. On 4th May came to anchor at Tetuan.

1805. On 9th May came to anchor in Lagos Bay.

1805. On 11th May sailed for the West Indies.

1805. On 4th June arrived at Barbadoes.

1805. On 7th June arrived at Trinidad.

1805. On 12th June arrived off Antigua.

1805. On 13th June sails for Europe in search of the elusive French fleet.

1805. On 18th July joins Collingwood off Cadiz.

1805. On 15th August joins Cornwallis off Brest.

1805. On 18th August arrived at Spithead; joins Lady Hamilton and his little girl Horatia at Merton.

1805. On 13th September having heard from Captain Blackwood, who visited him at Merton, that the French fleet were at Cadiz, he prepares to leave Merton.

1805. On 15th September joins the _Victory_ and sails from Spithead.

1805. On 25th September joins British fleet off Cadiz.

1805. On 21st October, BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR and death of Nelson.

1806. On 9th January buried in St. Paul's Cathedral.

INDEX

Aboukir Bay, battle of (_see_ Nile, battle of the) Addington, Charles, 104 Alexander of Russia, 310, 321, 322 _Arethusa_, The (poem), 352 Armada, Spanish, 39 _et seq._, 43, 59 Asquith, H.H., 297, 303 Astley, Sir Jacob, 131, 134

Balfour, A.J., 303 Ball, Captain, 153, 154, 158, 160 Barham, Lord, 215 Bathurst, Lord, 295 Beatty, Admiral, 64 Bendero, Don Pedro, 47 Beresford, Lord Charles, 52 Bernsdorf, Count, 320 Berry, Captain. 66 Bertheur, General, 308 Blackett, Mr., 262 Blackwood, Captain, 210, 232, 235, 236, 237 Blake, Admiral, 134 Bonaparte, Caroline, 292 Bonaparte, Elisa, 292 Bonaparte, Jerome, 292 Bonaparte, Joseph, 144, 169, 292 Bonaparte, Louis, 292 Bonaparte, Napoleon (_see_ Napoleon) Bonaparte, Pauline, 293 Boulogne, battle of (sea song), 343 Brereton, General, 198, 199, 203, 207 Burleigh, Cecil, Lord (_see_ Cecil) Byng, Admiral Sir John, 161, 267

Cadiz, Drake's attacks on, 32, 39, 58 Cadogan, Mrs., 210 Calais, Armada at, 41 Calder, Sir Robert, 206, 208, 222 _et seq._, 267, 268 Calvi, siege of, 64 Campbell, Sir John, 108 Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Henry, 301 Canning, 180 Capua, siege of, 139 Carlile, Christopher, 48, 51, 54 Carlscrona, Hyde Parker's departure to, 95 Carlyle, Thomas, 69, 78 Caroline (_see_ Naples, Queen of) Carraciolli, Prince, 118 _et seq._, 161, 279 Carribean Sea, Drake visits, 54 Carthagena, Drake's attacks on, 32, 54 Castlereagh, Lord, 180, 211, 295, 301, 303, 321 Caulaincourt, 310 Cecil, Lord, of Burleigh, 27, 32, 44, 58 Champernowne, Sir Arthur, 32 Championnet, General, 147 Cobham, Thomas, 32 Collingwood, Admiral Lord, 31, 63, 64, 83, 84, 134, 193, 200, 203, 204, 210, 229, 235, 237, 238, 243, 245 _et seq._, 257 _et seq._ Columbus, Christopher, 51, 53 Columbus, Diego, 51 Copenhagen, battle of, 89, 91 Copenhagen, battle of (sea-song), 340 Copenhagen (poem), 354 Corday, Charlotte, 141 Corunna, Drake's attack on, 39 Croker, J.W., 115 Cromwell, Oliver, 130, 133, 134, 237

Danton, 141
Davis, Sir John, 17
Death of Nelson (poem), 360
Denmark, Prince Regent of, 320, 321
Disraeli, 302
Domingo, San (_see_ San Domingo)
Dominica, Drake's arrival at, 50
Doughty, Thomas, 24, 38
Drake, Sir Francis--
as prototype, 17
and Panama, 18, 56
and Elizabeth, 20, 21, 22, 23, 43
and War Fund, 20
Portuguese Expedition, 20
death at Puerto Bello, 21, 60
on _Pelican_, 22, 43
and Doughty, 24, 38
and discipline, 24, 38
at Cadiz, 32, 39, 58
at Carthagena, 32, 54
at Corunna, 39
West Indian Expedition, 44
at Vigo, 47, 48
and Spanish Gold Fleet, 49
at Santiago, 49, 50
at Dominica, 50
at San Domingo, 51, 53
at Bahamas, 57
rescues Roanoke settlers, 57, 58
connection with East India Company, 59
Newbolt's poem on, 60
and Fleet Tradition, 63
a religious man, 134
Nelson compared with, 180
"Drake's Drum" (poem), quotation from, 60
Dresden, Electress of, 83
Dropmore manuscript, 179
Dumanoir, 244, 245, 255

East India Company, 59 Edward VII of England, 82 Electress of Dresden, 83 Elizabeth of England, 20, 21, 22, 23, 32, 34, 35, 43, 44 Elliot, Sir George, 122, 123 Emma, Lady Hamilton, 65, 73 _et seq._, 95, 97, 98 _et seq._, 118, 119, 120 _et seq._, 143, 149, 159, 160, 161, 215, 216, 226, 243 d'Enghien, Duc, 268, 276 _et seq._ Erskine, Sir James, 147

Featherstonehaugh, Sir Henry, 73 Fisher, Admiral Lord, 64, 95, 178, 180 Fitzwilliam, George, 26 Foote, Captain, 280, 281, 282 Fortescue's Dropmore MS., 179 Fox, Charles James, 282, 290, 301, 317, 318, 326, 327, 330 Francis Joseph of Austria, 312 Franklin, Benjamin, 329 Fremantle, Admiral, 208 Frobisher, Martin, 17, 40, 63, 134

George III of England, 81, 93, 296, 303, 327, 328, 329, 330, 331 George, Prince Regent (afterwards George IV), 87, 88, 96 Gilbert, Sir Humphrey, 17 "Give it to him, Charley!" (sea-song), 349 Gladstone, W.E., 301, 302 Goethe (on beauty of Lady Hamilton), 76 Graham, James, 73 Graves, Rear-Admiral, 92 Gravina, Admiral, 244 Greville, Charles, 73, 74, 80, 122 Grey, Earl, 301 Grey, Sir Edward, 297 "Gulliver's Travels," 318

Hallowell, Captain, 146, 218 Hamilton, Sir William, 65, 74, 76, 88, 100 _et seq._, 122 Hamilton, Lady (_see_ Emma, Lady Hamilton) Hardy, Captain (of the _Victory_), 92, 119, 225, 232, 235, 240, 242, 243, 251 Hart, Emily (afterwards Lady Hamilton), 73 Hawkins, Sir John, 17, 20, 26, 27, 28, 30, 31, 40, 63, 134 Heine, Heinrich, anecdote of, 311 Hood, Admiral, 72 Horatia (Nelson's daughter), 84, 87, 110 _et seq._, 219, 227, 243 Hotham, Admiral, 118 Howard, Admiral Lord, 17, 40

Inquisition, Spanish, 17, 22, 23, 34, 37

Jackson, Mr. (British representative to Denmark), 320, 324 Jellicoe, Admiral, 64 Jervis, Admiral (_see_ St. Vincent, Admiral Lord) Joseph of Austria (_see_ Francis Joseph of Austria) Joseph Bonaparte (_see_ Bonaparte, Joseph)

Keats, Captain, 210 Keith, Lord, 139, 158, 160, 162 Kitchener, Lord, 178

Leslie, General, 130, 134 Louis XVIII of France, 294 Louis Philippe of France, 314 Louis, Captain, 146, 147 Lowe, Sir Hudson, 295 Lyon, Amy (afterwards Emma, Lady Hamilton), 73

Mack, General, 147 Malmesbury, Lady, 122 Malmesbury, Lord, 325 Marat, 141 Marengo, battle of, 162 Maria Carolina (_see_ Naples, Queen of) Marie Louise of Austria, 107, 170 Marlborough, Duke of, 104, 105 Marmont, General, 308 Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, 26 Mary Tudor, Queen of England, 35 Medina-Sidonia, Duke of, 19, 40, 41 Melbourne, Lord, 107 Meneval, Baron de, 171 Milas, General, 162 Minto, Lord, 103, 104, 155, 159, 209, 210, 217 Moreau, 276 Mulgrave, Lord, 328 Mueller (Swiss historian), 287 Murat, 145, 169

Naples, Ferdinand, King of, 120, 128, 129, 140, 144, 145,
146, 147, 163 _et seq._
Naples, Maria Carolina, Queen of, 77, 79, 118, 129, 148,
162, 163 _et seq._, 260
Napoleon Bonaparte--
and Prussianism, 69, 298
aphorisms, 71, 131, 134, 205, 291, 314
comparison with Nelson, 94
and Marie Louise, 107, 170
his opinion of Nelson, 118
his opinion of Wellington, 117
Cromwell compared with, 133
and the French fleet, 191
and Villeneuve, 199, 264, 265, 266, 267, 268
and Madame Walewska, 217
comparison of his love letters with Nelson's, 218
his "Farewell to France" (poem), 274
as a statesman, 132, 133, 275
and plots against his life, 276
and Pitt, 287 _et seq._, 304
Mueller's opinion of, 287
Wieland's opinion of, 288
and his family, 292
his return from Elba, 294
his letter to George III, 296
his son's death, 308
and Alexander of Russia, 310
and Treaty of Tilsit, 310
compared with William II of Germany, 313
contemporaneous testimony, 315 _et seq._
Neipperg, Count, 170
Nelson, Rev. Edmund, 64
Nelson, Horatia (_see_ Horatia)
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

Salisbury, Lord, 302 San Domingo, Drake's attack on, 32, 51, 53 San Philip, 58 Santa Cruz, action at, 65 Santa Cruz, Admiral, 18, 37, 39, 41 Santiago, Drake's attack on, 49, 50 Sardanapalus, 141 Scott, Dr., 243 Sea Songs, 333 Seymour, Admiral Lord, 40 Sidmouth, Lord, 221 Smith, Sir Sydney, 174 Southey, Robert, 128, 174 Strachan, Sir Richard, 245, 255 St. George, Mrs., 123 St. Vincent, battle of Cape, 65 St. Vincent, Earl, 63, 64, 65, 78, 92, 98, 174, 184, 185, 234 Suckling, Captain Maurice, 64

Thiers, M., 191, 305 Thurn, Count, 119 Tierny, 301 Touche-Treville, Admiral la, 136, 137 Trafalgar, battle of, 43, 225 _et seq._ Trafalgar, Battle of (sea-song), 345 Troubridge, Admiral, 80, 98, 140, 141, 142, 143, 146, 151, 158, 159, 233, 234

Ulloa, San Juan d', catastrophe of, 26

Valdes, Don Pedro de, 19 Verde, Cape de, pursuit of Spanish to, 48 Vigo, Drake's attack on, 47, 48 Villeneuve, Admiral, 116, 189, 190, 199, 200, 206, 210, 225, 229, 244, 259, 264, 265, 266, 267, 268

Walewska, Madame, 217 Washington, George, 329 Wellington, Duke of, 39, 114, 295 Wieland (German historian), 287, 288 William II of Germany, 52, 311, 313

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