t^TujuM^A^.
 
had
so
convincingly
October 21st,
180-5,
I
desire to call special attention to some of the pecuhar circum-
stances
which
gave
us
imperative
that
we
should
that
we can
we should merely look upon it, as many of us
do,
foresight, strategy,
seamanship, tactics,
physique, and
mis-
interpret
that no bravery
soonder
manage
of the line
Brest with twenty-one
.about
sixteen
from
campaign, of
fairly
joined,
tactics
played
very
in the war of
1803-15, it came to
consistency
Vigo
the
superiority
Thames in
problem
sea.
against us as in
bigger battalions.
At
Trafalgar,
fleet
by
common
nation-
alities,
temporarily
brought
one
another
within
a
the action. When we
of his
work
Trafalgar,
During
several
hours,
tlie
Santisima
Trinidad
by
the
every
It was 1.50
the
Santisima
Trinidad.
But
this
is
Consulat
Santisima Trinidad
and' the
pidc.—V^.
not
in
The
calm
ward of the
English
found
tlie
thing
possible,
we
did
not
find
made for
fell
on
board
the
hauled
that
she
made
that
splendid
she
was
my
wake.
we
of the commander of the van was severely condemned in
Paris.
disgrace, asked
after
following
relieve the centre
systematically, and
did he get so closely into action as to take as
intimate a
;
had
personally
same
rendered
Minister
have
employed
language
such
not been convinced that
signal
from
Admiral
been signalled to do so.' The
court of
express upon that point if
it had
not been
windward of the fleet.
a
shows
what
the
to keep
proceed
of
the
enemy,
Admiral Gravina for
ourselves
have aided
me in
my work
subjects for the illustra-
:
311
549
555
562
564
565
566
567
567
INDEX
569
.
21st, 1805
19th,
1807
,,224
Admiral Hugh Downman ......
.
—Sequence
French
Eevolution,
from
1793
to
1802,
Great
who
were
quite
worthy
of
her
ship.
And
although,
in
the
the
enemy,
the
British
naval
administration
became
the British
nor,
as
regards
officers
long
before
the
and,
disappointments.
although,
in
spite
was
salutary
for
Great
expense
preserve it,
she must
officers,
in
con-
tinuation
of
the
lists
Chairman
E.N.
Commissioners
January
l'2th,
1792,
had
been
working of each
cause
of
honesty
 
agency.
Between
submitted
to
them
discovered
a
the
way
to
vast
peculation
and
fraud.
it was
reported to
country and service
places as
all
men
and who would,
attempts
 
hospitals. Even
and
the
hospital of
who had
lost limbs
had repeatedly
were
appointed,
and,
which
Vincent
were made
of
something
Act of 2 Will.
Admiralty to
as
pound.
prevaiHng in
the Admiralty
Courts abroad,
one has
but to
read Chapter
by deputy,
in order
as
Proctor,
made various
of
door
of
the
Judge's
private
water-closet.
and may
Navy,
1803-1815.'
Clats.
tonnage. The
I
191
the
second
the flimsy
fabric called
afford some protection to
Navmr's
struck
when she was
1804
improvement
were to have
the Navy.
guns.
She
was
first ship
was
improvement.
It
was
due
generally
the
2 long
two vessels of a
built of pitch-pine,
thus
armed
4 long 24-prB.
while
on
five
were
and the Glasgow
Cooke, E.A.)
ordered,
a
reduced
These
craft
boys.
and scarcely
who
had
most typical vessels
review
are
to
carriages, shot,
made to remedy it.
the
several
with various
excellent
weapons, the solution of the problem became easy. In the
period
to have
rendered difficult, especially
capacities
1806,
deference
opinion on
a slight
armaments and
:
'
;
weight
House,
was
1809,
when
the
Gull
lightship
as
1874.
Some
compensation balance,
the
first
of
its
British
frigates
therefore,
to the
to sea
against the
Americans quantity
and men.
the seamen,
she
had
ever
encountered,
perhaps,
to excuse British defeats
be most
afloat, did
all they
Concerning the
sliijijas
and a deprivation
physical
wretched
used
powerful
the naval
sail
without resorting to the frequent and un-
necessary call upon
by the
other seven
knowing
they
and
battery, or
have engaged
'
Britain
since
1815,'
p.
55.
us
in
numbers.
convey
'
on
board
put
over
us
muskets loaded
of them were
that the men below
to be
complements
the transient
go below
to
above
sometimes
way
obliged
deck with
a stone
the quarter-deck
a range.
Xearly all
eight
persons,
whose
At
watch, the larboard watch goes on
deck,
and
'
the utensils
then
custody,
until
they
are
the
to a grating
is then
nineteen cases
which
best he
at
cook
and
serve
it
out
every man
water,
to
comes
in
cook
attending to
the dinner
dirty
from
the
act
as
hoisting a
mess swab
1802,
French
merchants
had
a
 
man, with biscuit,
remains until
six o'clock,
'
such as
below
that
they
nnght
be
«
the
writer,
are
sufficiently
feelings
ndserable that
a
man
;
long
wars,
A
breach
immediately
ensued,
sea
h(jops.
with cargoes of
ladies, a sight
one woman
their choice up,
j'oung
:
sj>eech
for slaves in the West Indies. As
they
a
far
forgot
himself
as
to
cargo
of
them
conditionally
: that
ed.,
As
late
in Auth.'s
Coll. Mr.
Not being able to
; and then
we became
we
Cher-
meditating
of
article of
war which
a
the signal
which
this
poor
him
prisoner
the
ship to ship, receiving
sustain
use of to
have-
^
Mates
were-
cask,
4ind
; he is then
go
according
; audla~tyrant
or that
wherein
a
seat
has
been
fixed
the
boys,
has
given
the
prisoner
two
rows,
so
and
and
the decks, so
being
 
pocl<et
ordered
ordered to stop,
effects of the
a
serious
Captains give that power to their
inferior
officers.
The
punishment
of
his
hands
is
then
forced
open,
 
the
British.
Navy
would,
continues
out of
and
in
many
instances
they
are
the
most
when
aloft
true
manned
 
twenty-one hundred. Many of
to
saw
overboard an
of ships
of war
been
there
Fox,
frigate,
under
been
selves.
The
WiUwhnina
had
of
getting
many
necessaries
to
an addition of
a
week
pay
of
and
colour^
and
that
of
Admiral
remote
date
had
been
abolished
in
consequence
having been
warrant
as
having
distinguished
himself.
For,
as
James
action, were never,
concerned, the
the rank of
superior force, survived and returned to England, he would have
been
precluded
by
two
most
splendid
action
by
the
enemy
had
the
last
against
be
a
Brenton,
being
when
remained
on
the
The
men,
as
has,
excessively fond of
making decorative additions
of
name
to,
neckties,
hips
separated
Marine
list, nor were they promoted except in turn with the others.
More-
in the artillery.
divisions
had
their
headquarters
at
thenceforward having
and
follows
or
which are written in tlie English language, shall not be forwarded
by the posts,
condition,
who
or those
articles,
property,
and
goods,
in
contravention
with France,
first enter
a British
her
the Orders
on the
1809,
must promptly result. Early
Orders in Council,
;
Lord Castlereagh's intimation that
America,
a
apphed
to
their
should be
enormously between 1803
imports
of
£16,310,007,
and
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—
Toulon
has sought
shelter in
allies enter
Domingo
—Exploits
of
Willaumez
French
fi'igates
from
Cadiz
peace
of
Tilsit
—Demand
for
the
Danish
fleet—
helium.
It
had
been
aiTanged
forward
as
the
special
public
one ;
and
Ambassador
might
Britain
should
France's
reply
was
that
in
view
of
the
attitude
of
practically
 
;
conveying about
December
of
to Granville
of gunboats
out for
safety. Some
of these
French
permitted,
the
Cruiser
and
three places
Captain Owen's
the
port.
were
ready
for
BART.
CFrom
Bidley's
drawhuj
of
obedient to
any large
Bucentaure,
80,
Neptune,
80,
Boree,
74,
Pluton,
74,
oificer
required
assistance,
to
leave
the
Within
two
p.m.
on
July
30th.
on
the
17th
he
found him
was
transferred
he said,
Portsmouth report,
extremely
trying
off
Cape
Sicie
VICE-ADMIR.\I,
SIR SAMUKI,
R..I.)
company, continued off Toulon,
General
direction
of
Captain
Hallowell ;
a loss to
ten St. Lucia
day General
looked
as
if
she
must
infallibly
perish
with
all
Nisbet
Josiah
Willoughby
(act.),
one
of
the
served
under
the
British
flag,
a
launch
belonging
to
CJorinde
the
not
have
strictly
complied
the frigate
added
to
the
and
of
Duckworth.
thousand
men.^
The
squadron*
which
conveyed
quitted
to informaUty
had
declined
about
and,
upon
the
between
Cuddalore
and
-off St. Nicolas Mole.
on the
12th, and
his ships ready,
his boats
re-opening
he instantly
Cornwallis
had
been
driven,
days
year, although
prevented
the
Napoleon's
assumption
ships of the
transports,
ships
of
numbered,
schooner,
brig,
Admiral Jean Eaimond
washed by cross-tides.
the
points
as
of
regulars,
still remain, were erected,
the
hired
cutter
Active
(2),
6,
Lieutenant
gunboats
and
transports
which
and from 10.30
time
vessels
be followed.'
At daylight
each
of
mauled,
three
;
{From T. Blood's
man
heard
been playing,
the
whole
upon the lee
d'Anvers, bearing Ver
Huell's flag, and
William Sidney
Smith's force
Penelope
also
signalled
to
cease
firing,
and
which
were
May
17th
the
four
up on
the beach,
the
action,
was
fought
as
described
made
taken into the
the emperor
certainly
behaved
with
far
depot
for
be sent
craft,
bombarded
the Immortalite and Leda stood in close to
the
town.
that
a
brig,
a
and two
luggers, anchored
close to
danger. Upwards
perished
 
main body usually lay
gunboats, under Captain
was too close
Henry
(2),
Cape
Gris-Nez
of
gunboats,
under
Captain
where
they
it
may,
at
4
'
Lieutenant
James
Samuel
close
in
after
the
enemy;
and
proceeded
to
the
assistance
of
her deck,
all
saved
the
Harpy,
but
lodged
in
order
to
was
damage
of it to venture
to the adoption
a
species
lead-lined
chest,
measuring
inches
to a level
withdrawal
of
a
peg,
the
destination
craft, moored
a
course of the
from the flotilla.
and some smaller
gimshot of
fighting ensued.
fireships
to
drift.
in vain endeavoured to sink them. At 10.15 p.m. the
Providence
blew
up
gunboats,
but
wounding a couple of men. At 10.35 p.m. the Peggy
exploded after
three
persons.
until
about
1
seamen, while chasing
British boats in
must
be
to
of
Britain
cables.
On
October
detected
a.m.
on
near the
cannonaded
the
was
obliged
to
of
her
Cruiser,
18,
off.
Lieutenant
Ormsby,
with
his
people,
abandoned
her,
and
Lieutenant
Abraham
means of the
however,
marks
remained at
off
to
the
coast
French
coast
until
the
Cape
compliment
at 3.30
mander-in-Chief.^
Nelson,
off
the
weather
division,
and the Amazon,
of
Grande
p.m. the
Grande Passe,
line of
12
M. Latouche-Treville
of
forming
important,
since
embarked in
necessary,
by
putting
corvettes
French
the
meantime,
the
French
Brest
the
attention
of
Admiral
the
Hon.
William
Cornwallis,
of escaping from
some
Napoleon
suspected.
by
he wore
Fishguard,
driven oft' by
Eear-Admiral
hne
and
six
frigates,
quitted
port,
to
discover
whether
the
with
an
additional
and one brig
lying in the
proceeded, for watering
sail
of the line and ten other ship-rigged vessels, and, in the inner
harboiu-, fitting,
the
line
only,
were
eligible,
Bruix,
did
not
jected
strategical
altogether
along
the remainder of
and
4
those islands,
to attempt,
the captured
islands, Bear-Admiral
French
admiral
was
different roadsteads,
was next to leave 1200 men with General Ferrand at
the
city
of
San
in
by
would,
in
that
and
Dover
of Spain
as a reinforcement,
stipulated aid
leave
declared
against
agreed,
thereupon
the payment
as a
^
satisfactory explanations
of
serious
Anne, the
at
the
same
loss, and
skirmishes took place, resulting to the advantage of the British,
but
the batteries
Captain
unless some favourable
favour-
able,
they
loss
of
eighteen
killed
of
twenty-two
days
and the
thousand
and
of March 7th,
French
colours
by 10 a.m.,
sent
them,
tain
the
troops
which
morning
dawned,
against
Decres,
 
30th,
1805.
Eochefort squadron is
only just ready
quite, equal
monarchical,
animated
by
inexperienced and ill-trained.
circumstances, goes
British
fleets,
first
to keep
stations
drama shall
Sound to
Egypt, from
highest
Sir
John
Orde
(1),
more special duty
eye
was,
superior officer,
his commission
Orde, who
hand,
to
eleven
French and Spanish
or
on
the
French
at
Toulon
was, on paper
repairs ; his
force was
obtain
intelli-
gence,
the
personnel
Early
3rd,
of those
summoned
to
sea.
Nelson weighed at
island of
•22nd,
had
been
had been unable
and
had
the
message
addressed
 
for
Agincourt
Sound,
continued to
him, he could
day
therefore
the
I
man
to
partake
wind had
that the
at Naples,
1
tion to further
set forth
in his
letter of
September 29th,
had received
in December,
station
of
eastward,
he
anchored
in
the
ships. On the
80,
Austen
(1)   as his flag-captain. From March 27th until April 1st,
Nelson
lay
corruptible,
which
had
turned over her
also
turned
over
the
crew
sea,
it
which there
force
to
European
waters
force to
cover and
invasion
flotilla.
There
had
the eve of
clearness,
it
may
be
thus
summarised
case of
need he
was to
for
cause,
Ganteaume
should
find
it-
best,
to
Ferrol,
of being
out against
them, he
from the sky
had
reahsed
that,
ulterior object, no
had
intended
in
con-
sequence
to
did
not
OPERATIONS,
1803-1815.
[1805.
It has been said that Nelson left Pulla Bay on April 3rd, and
steered
was
a
little
the
African
coast.
They
position until
the 7th,
when, having
received no
that idea
neutral,
that
the
return
I know that
or
mislead
went
ashore.
the San
seventeen
sail
French
were
getting
appeared
off
the
Black
but
twenty-
one.
Villeneuve,
Napoleon
should
slip
tunity, either
Villeneuve anchored on May
(or as it was
smaller craft, including the
Eock,^ it had been
Rafael, 80,
which had
having
could
on
the
beach
who
was
to
Mediterranean station, shifted
;
Strait,
by
an
old
friend,
Kear-Admiral
Donald
the
West
Indies,
therefore,
his burning
ports^
which
Mediterranean.
the
transports
force of eleven sail
such
a
critical
time
is
pecuharly
eloquent
of
his
greatness
and seven
Geid.
the
circumstances
be
favourable.
;
French
ship
that
is
too
hotly
pressed,
and
enemy would
stand under
whether
I
shnuld
pass
to
leeward
In
that
fleet
about
being on
and every
the
van
ship
object
was
to
concentrate
on
part
of the
Cochrane
at
Barbados
of
On
June
that
Northumberland,
sail
of
the
least
eighteen
all
things,
to
74,
Berwick,
entrance
to
Fort
Eoyal
the
opened,
two
18-prs.
(Fort
the fleet. The British men-of-war which had heen with the
convoy
had
parted
company,
he
and
instead of waiting
any longer in
to
windward
making off,
La
burnt
hands
of
the
imaginary
force
below
his
Didon
took
and
burnt
privateer Mars, of Liverpool,
kept steadily on
will be
having, on the
which
was
utilised,
will
presenth'
appear.
by
the
Superb,
he
steered
for
been
from its
Cornwallis, whose
The
the
dispatches
until
the
morning
from
before
the
blockaders
 
the
Hon.
Arthur
Kaye
Legge,
the
soon afterwards,
two columns. At
ordered to form line, and, at 1.15 p.m., and again
an
Defiance, 74,
on the British
saw the
within
about
consequence
the
While
Captain
Prowse
abandoned
because he saw
round on the
she
line
5.50
p.m.,
when
a
the mean-
At about 9.45
Castle lost
her fore
The
Prince
of
Wales,
Malta,
and
Defiance
also
the
at the
Villeneuve's
Windsor
Castle,
with
her filled
his
command,
Calder
about
N.E.,
keeping
24th,
but,
at
or
disaffection.
A
influenced
by
two
his prizes. When it
oldest had been launched fifty-
one,
other
consideration
him.
short, he
formed
24th, the partial action
;
Villeneuve lay
in the
raised
the
the
shown,
of
a
of
side, and the
done
having
22nd.
to
co-operate
with
him,
should
he
; but
Villeneuve
never
went
him, and
with
thirteen
French
There
At
10
which
had
'
Villeneuve,
of to
next
chapter.
only
to
was on his way
On
August
to
Bertheaume
A.M. on the 21st, the whole of the following powerful
fleet
tack with
to
reconnoitre,
and,
by
four
followed
them.
With
these
as were
not from
time to
provisions,
Collingwood
remained
Trafalgar.
Before
the
West
Indies
officer's
squadron.^
content to
it
4th.
Chevalier,
172-105.
such
treatment,
seeing
that
his
hands
had
all
along
be fired, nor
the 28th, the Victor
miles
from
the
distance of one
the
port,
it
line,
brigs.
Queen, Spencer, Tigre, and
Zealous, had to be
easterly wind. Louis,
and provisions was
or
that
the
Hydra.
windward in Une
be
some
he
gunshot
of
as
beginning at the
get through
will always
be at
hand to
assist their
enemy, they
composing, in the first
the
enemy's
fleet
... are
to
little
interrupted
as
possible.
of
Between October 9th
in
pursuance
immediate orders.
at once begun
to make preparations
Terrible,
was not to be
gales
from
Kosily at
Madrid, and
informed
Gravina
breeze
from
N.
by
E.,
the
to get
under way.
Their movements
by
the
British
inshore
sqiaadron
to
with breeze that then
and
the
the British
slowly on
morning
combined fleet weighed and
they
(one
British
wore, and again came
to
constituting
Spanish
Alava,
M.
Admiral
Gravina,
with
his captains,
business wherein not
pierce our
line; and
our
the alhes
French line
cramping
for action. It
then, tacking,
them
for
a
time,
the north-west.
At 8.40
p.m., Nelson
windward and not,
battle.
purposed to
being,
to
keep
that
port
open
and the ineptitude
it being
;
proper
the starboard
tack, whi('h
Nelson's making the
victory?
—the certainty of which he never for an instant seerued to
doubt,
o'clock
his
Lordship's
anxiety
on the
combined fleets,
I took his hand,
find your
reminder,
line,
flagship,
the
Belleisle,
her
of
the
avoid any
possible confusion,
signal,
 Engage
Spaniards
also
displaying
a
large
wooden
;
^
hoisted
the rear.
San Juan yejjomucenot Principe de Asturias, and one or two
other
ships,
at
doubt. The Intrepide, if not more forward in the line
at
Duo.i
thau
as
Fougueux, firing
the former
she
began
a
furious
contest
muzzle
to
astern,
the
Bellelsle,
drew
near,
port
had
already
been
by
Indomptahle
confused, some
when
Trinidad;
biit
he
in endeavouring
rapidly
passed
to
windows
of
Villeneuve's
the Victory was
away a
little, and
ranged ahead.
bear,
and,
to avoid being
Victory
decks and from
;
were soon almost put out of action by the deadly
small-
arm
the enemy ahead and
they could
tactics,
cut
through
the
of thirty-three
and
hero
picture that
the
latter
was
at
coaming of
the cabin
Hardy stooped
arm
gave
way,
 I
trust,
mizen-top
fracturing
the
a
large
two inches
1891, of
carefiiUj' examining
tlie ball
shot
riflemen
arrested
He
immediately
seized
a
musket,
Seeker, R.M.,
and two
seamen, who,
pain,
was
a
fatal
result.
Partly
covered
with
a
sheet,
calling
continually
the French
to to
to be
men
to
the
Temeraire, as
1.40
after-part of
they
rose
. . . originated the belief
that, after the
Vice-
Admiral.
Midshipmen David
Ogilvie and
British
flagship
succeeded
in
opponent, and
ward.
She
also
fired
some
however,
he
added :
the direction of
being,
apparently,
that
for
anchoring
ceased, he
or four
parted from
him for
the last
Nelson's
last
moments,
see
that, as soon as
should be
gale.
Collingwood
was
overwhelmed
should
friend, he
battle
had
ended.
Cape
Trafalgar
bore
into action
with studding-
fire, had
some difficulty
in avoiding
the drifting
passing to windward
have looked like
 
easily
out-manoeuvred,
and
was
at
sooner
had
the
operations
been
effected
her starboard side. She
and
Orion,
and
other
ships.
The
stern,
hauled
induced
the
to
stop
him.'
The
Africa
fought
her
steadily,
the
Africa
making off. It
to offer any
'
wlien she
was boarded
action.
The
Belleisle,
her
next
engaged
on
the
starboard
dropped
been at the
THE  .MARS.
astern by
Monarca and
the Fougueux,
whose
shot
the enemy's line
then hauled
But the Monarca
but
Captain
Tyler,
putting
his
helm
hard
The
Charles Bennett
at about
which,
for
some
from
to
have
found that
she was
not boarded,
was ultimately
engaged and
it
a
quarter,
to
was
About ten
Revenge.
ships
drifted
apart.
shut out
Bahama.
The
to
been
intended
to
rake
were
being waved
opened
was
taken
which had
to
the
starboard
COMMEMOBATIVE
Ildefonso.
; but, like some
other ships of
influence
upon
been well
who were killed and wounded in the British fleet in
the
course
of
names of
and
pregnant
a
victory
the
great
won, and
most
decisive
battle
in
the
save
about
twenty-five
persons
of the 23rd,
in
up
the
battle.
Soon
after
he
had
made
and
^
take command.
surrendered
it
afterwards
lay
hero
whose
name
;
whom,
by
many
years'
intimacy
mind,
ties of
affection ; a
grief to
which even
the
consolation
which
scope
for
his
marvellous
energy,
flag, he
than
he,
hved
to
see
the
often
James.
To
specify
the
Rev.
man of great mind, but self-
taught : Lord Collingwood, the old companion in arms of the
immortal
Nelson,
was
were made
^
post-rank,
or
to
Cadiz
4,
IKOS).
were
any
most difficult
 
certain of
the exact
them
with
on
in
several sail
of the
He
ultimately
decided,
therefore,
to
endeavour
to
reach
one
of
36,
Captain
four
large
ships
he
hoped
had
and chased by the
Phoenix
saw
saw the four
observed
soon out of
at, hailed the
sail
in
the
were lost
sight of.
wait for the
in
the
N.N.E.
He
own,
together
the
Fi'ench
ones,
the
Casar
Mont Blanc,
and became
second instead
of third.
The French,
however, got
Hero, which fired her
such
refitted,
(Hero), and
had
suffered
including among
wounded
M.
A
court
rear-
acquitted. It
four
sail
other
For
Kingdom
were
doomed
action. When news
about the
second week
more, for a brief space,
turned
to
the
to
march
inland.
making for
im-
possible.
Yet,
during
more
she
the
real
work
of
defence
shown, in the
called
sought
an
opportunity
for
stealing
its new
At break of day the enemy was discovered by a
British
mander Valentine
Ambletevse. The
Lieutenant
enemy's flotilla
to
mention
have
been
present
in
 
though
Lieutenant
by the
Isles, off
the
following
night
were
sent
out
;
division of the
Vice-Admiral
an opportunity
remained
be
with
the
into
two
batteries.
had
ordered
craft, one
the morning of July '23rd in order to continue its
progress
up
the
coast
French
accounts,
it
gun-brig.
Lieutenant
Nisbet
of the flotilla
St.
Valery-en-Caux.
This
without
flotilla,
divisions
the port
the
respective
Soult
; the
fourth,
and was
to carry
the corps
by Marshal
reality, have not availed
cruisers
to command all
combinations
was
made
co-operation of fleets, or
of the
than once
'
ultimately, according
to O'Meara
proceed
Sir
Thomas
Graves
(3),
troops under
St.
Lucia
accordingly
for
therefore, after
sea again.
At dawn
on the
5th, he
Decres
ship
of
the
having
Cornwallis,
who
had
It
was
even then informed
that only seven
the
Ships.
COMMAKDEliS.
Brisbane,
seventeen
stood
to
the
N.W.
evening,
his
convoy,
Canaries,
the
Arethusa
detached by Collingwood,
Arethusa;
the Tohmtaire with
them to Teiierife.
{\if
Xoylhiimberlahd,
Y4,
On
December
25th,
being
in
lat.
30°
52'
were
neither
of
to be in a
as they might
might have forced
and then,
detached the
reinforcement for Eear-
evening of
the 19th,
and on
of San Domingo,
upon
the
Alexandre
the
of
Atlas
attaching
themselves
by
that
the
Brave,
the enemy,
the Donegal's
by
Captain Malcolm
soon induced
Diomede, and, in the
away her
own bowsprit.
evil
his masts went.
by the Atlas,
then
Brave
were
badly
26th,
Eear-Admiral
Willaumez
keep
expelled
as
the
Comte
de
Montfort,
the merchantmen. On August
Gibraltar,
80,
succeeded in
unfrequented
Foret in
vanished,
of
him,
leaving it
night
of
August
Anson,
44,^
the army.
this
which
is
vi. 452.
are
Warren
and
Strachan,
ships of
left but
French
port,
distance of
more closely
watched by
the Hydra,
Cape
Indies. See
next cliapter.
guns, and carried
some
distance
Mediterranean port.
made temporary
peace with
devote
the
of
the
Gaeta was
with
two
Neapolitan
upon
the
defences
at
the
quickly
agreed
to
capitulate.
In
^
attempt
; but,
by
the
Regiment
gunboats,
dis-
tinguished
itself
on
July
30th
by
by
the
to
was persistently denied
Bart.
It
examined the
in two
with an offer of
other by
General
Janssens,
who,
after
his defeat on the 8th, had established himself at Hottentot
Holland's
Kloof,
it
were
Captain
George
part of the artillery.
obeyed a
Montevideo,
which
were
then
under
determined,
the
Brigadier-General W.
the
Narcissus
same date.
plished
his
purpose.
afternoon of June 25th,
;
prevent
three miles
from Buenos
British
on improvised
rafts, under
handed
over
by
the
city,
and some
been
province
4th by
made such dis-
the
Revolution
under
the
frustrated
most
of
killed,
one
missing, Beresford,
happily,
terms
The Commodore and
an
attempt
upon
Montevideo,
but
could not get
30th, he summoned,
of
and thus he gained
Bio de
la Plata
year.
expedition
will
be
given
the
said
of any
Baclihouse to Windham, Oct. 13th, and Oct. 31st; Popham to
Marsdea,
return, maj'
be attended
of Good
censurable;
in
the
Baltic
A''istula. From that
18,
 
that
and
Toulon,
and
Spanish
9
Portuguese
equal
be
pursued
Sup]i.,
the
steadily
overhauled
1
thirty-eight
Bay, about half
without
opposition,
and
the
the detention of
in
Gambler declared
this
to
interrupt
the
business
a
consisted of the following
At
10
more
had
been
badly
supported
them
Charles,
was
fallen
into
;
preparations
for
terms. The
and
prisoners
and
property
be restored.
operations have been noted
wounded, and 24 missing.'
fleet is
ally
to
Russian
vessels,
which,
under
treaty,
had
Collingwood, who
still watched
80,
Captain
Thomas
command
Abydos, and
the
Porte
had
order to
Strait,
and,
on
able to bombard the
be
pursued
ambassador
should
an hour
added that
the projected
plan of
and
on
the
entire command consisted
;
armed.
As
moored
at
Constantinople
Duckworth weighed
at 11
a.m. on
February 11th,
letter
in
which
occurs
the
following
obscurely
ominous
passage
owe to
has become the
;
to carelessness, the
probable that the
squadron under
hostile
demeanour.
the
outer
castles
or
arrived in
succession within
made
any
they had to be repassed
;
passed
ships, and there is
reply
caused
a
consider-
killed and
an
1807,
the
heavy
a
cannonade
and
a
gunboat,
boarded and
Standard under Lieutenants
continued
its
fire
after
the
been
entered
by
sea-
men
and
The destruction
E.M.
Among
Parkyns, Thomas
this affair
pursuing
which
was a moderate
and
At
11.30
A.M.,
Vice-Admiral
hinted
that,
the Turkish
his duty prescribed
day,
hour
discovered by our
more
Vice-Admiral
to
lose
received by
astonishing
that
it
encouraged
to
morning,
p.m., the signal
which had
Vice-Admiral, on the 23rd,
if the Sublime
Porte really wishes
Sebastiani.
of
me the work of peace,
which
not
been
at
they
took
delight
in
prolonging
the
situation.
They
agreed
and indecision.
the Prince's
not
^
Pending
a
disembarka-
tion
of
Boyal
Marines,
the
 
on
rehnquishing
the
Dardanelles,
and,
the narrows
in daylight.
down,
be deter-
that
might
both
from
the
castles
on
Point
squadron, as
it passed,
upon it.
It replied
Cape
Janissary.^
The
than
might
have
been
expected
the shot employed
 
Vice-Admiral.
But
negotiations
but
this
was
was
likely
to
succeed. ^
 While
Duckworth's
its
destination
on
March
;
guns,
landed
near
Lake
Mareotis
Brenton,
secured
and
surrendered and
their misfortunes
Duck-
Louis,
'
British
subjecti5
and
a
family
chose
France.
proceed
clays after
Sidney
time
a
squadron
capitulation.^
The
appointment
Sir Home
January
General Sir Samuel
Backhouse.
and resourceless to serve as
a
He therefore
evacuated it
on the river for
and
Eoyal
Marines
under
transports
anchored
off
Chico
Bay
February
3rd,
the whole of the
 
Happily no blame fell
far the most brilliant exploit of the year 1807 was
witnessed
in
ascertain the
paintinfj bij
J. Xorthcotc,
of
anxious for a British
alliance. On November 29th,
Arethusa,
38,
the
Jan. 25th,
then
over
Pierre Jean
nut to conquer you
You
have
some
of
his
men,
Suriiianie. Both
and Lydiard then pulled ashore, as did Wood and Bolton,
landed, and, at
7.30 a.m., stormed
two
minor
They
struck
the
Dutch
Amsterdam.
This
extraordinary
exploit
cost
the
other hand, lost very
than
the
four
frigate
on
Nov.
28th,
island
the
westward,
anchored
at
midnight o& the port of Samarang. At dawn on the following
morning,
;
chased and drove ashore
24,
Com-
mander
Carrega,
who
was
merchantmen
Resolutie
ertions, got afloat
Edward was his father.
Lodewijk,
it
was
expected,
a
for
several
days
with
a
violent
England
off
Palermo,
he
joined
Vice-Admiral
Edward
Thornbrough.
The
squadrons
flagship.
JEagle
 4
Ke7it
74
Thunderer
under
his
orders,
and
vdth
her
French.
From
February
24th
to
March
above list,
of sail
with
them
Ocean,
98
(flag).
Cape
Passaro
to
communicate
with
CoUingwood
still
withoiit
intelligence
that
on
March
21st,
was
again
to
Palermo
still to the eastward.
Adriatic
to
the
was informed
by the
Toulon.
Leaving
the Spanish patriots.
wearisomeness rather than of
of the
into French
hands on
4th,
hostihties
between
Great
Britain
and
Spain
were
ordered
who
blockaded
of
Cintra
was
signed.
three 50-gun
;
and four
fleet from Hango
of
the
sail
of
up
but
the
a
fresh
N.E.
which, at
all
sail
to
drew
ahead
of
their
four or
placable, then
which
was
passed the bow of the
Implacable,
which
at
once
tacked
when, at 7.20
'
the Swedes.
almost entirely disabled
would bear upon it. Then
the
under
a
Master.
Hood
had
about half
an hour
ten
minutes
after
the
Implacable
by
Captain
Martin,
reconnoitred
by
the
Salsette,
36,
frigate
Camilla,
44,
it
was
found
to
be
so
Napoleon.
Keats,
who
arrangements
the force
of circum-
their little
therefore, to
British side of
Superb) and
several wounded.
thousand,
were
he displayed while engaged
using Guadeloupe
and
Desirade
until
opportunity
presented
itself
town of Marie
therefore, on
the morning
Cerberus, accompanied by
enclosures).
;
island of
Spearing,
The
French
Brest
squadron,
At
driven
his
station
Commodore
Troude,
frigates,
together with
(late
British).
doubled
the
Vaudree
rock
vessels
had
were discovered
which
at
74,
Captain
Beresford
; upon
soon left
open the
p.m.,
when
Beresford
sent
the
in the afternoon,
Isle, continued towards
western end of
which
consisted
of
the
Ccesar,
80,
Captain Charles
which
Naiad,
38,
Captain
Thomas
Dundas,
to
carry
the
news
Malcolm,
1792 for
Bounty, and
Pierre Eoch
Jurien, with
heavier ships, not being
discovered by the Naiad,
cut off, headed
Doterel at his heels.
the
Ccesar,
Donegal,
and
Amelia
cut
drove
fall, Stopford
ordered his
like her consorts,
The Donegal had
the losses
Triumph,
that
were
made
to
get
her
off,
hinted
that
fireships
might
be
advantageously
employed
against
the
enemy,
French fleet at
enemy, either
C.
engineer
was
born
Toulouse. In
^
by Gambier on
fire-
again
counting
from
for
boats
others
to
lie
near the boom, so as to be ready to board and
tow away
of
his
command.
to strike their topmasts
way at a moment's
moved
in
a mile and three-
quarters from the nearest
general assistance.
the Boyart. The
cables
and
But
several
of
consequence,
Ten
minutes
afterwards,
another
of
some
of
the
fireships,
lines
of
heavier
ships.
The
Becjulus
French
was
collided
been kniglited.
of
the
was very deep,
Hence
she
grounded
while
about
Enette,
side of the same river.
. . . She
close to the
. .
de TEguille,
French.
The
Admiral
Conflict,
and
Growler,^
to
frigates
and
sloops,
to
anchor
division
conse-
quently
the remainder
Regulus, and Jemmapes,
the
bold
course
requires to
be assisted
was
firing
and
was
Aigle,
Emerald,
Unicorn,
Revenge
the
Theseus,
from
the
fleet,
joined
the
been
neither
Beagle,
vessels
is
noted
as
having
lost
any
men.-
Mau-
musson
passage.
They
brought
to
him
two
letters
from
Lord
Gambler.
destroy the
was
made.
TourviUe
ever survived
the
Begidus,
on
the
mud
he known
silencing
enemy's ships being then
as well as
April,
was
marked
that
several
members
of
the
court,
the president,
only
would have
Admiral
supported
Lord
of
those
who
went
through
ever attained
to that
Tonnerre, was
duly executed on
itself
to
await
attack
behind
a
therefore,
well
to
say
here
that
in
May,
1809,
Vice-Admiral
Sir
On May
Antwerp
and
arsenals
at
the 29th,
Rear-
Admiral
William
at
once
landed
74,
and
George
on
the
on
by
Dutch
shot,
the
flotilla
lost
a
man.
Middelburg,
In
addition,
a
the
Dutch
commandant
offered
to
on August
boats
which,
under
Lieutenant
Charles
side
a
flotilla
of
act of
crossing. As
both
the
Flushing
garrison
connections
Prince of
order
given,
enemy
for
about
two
hours
meantime,
an
was in
the
river
at
siege
their efforts.
180V)
was
her,
grounded
on
the
Dog-sand
signalled to
haul off
last, and about
part of
in particular.^
heavily
In the Mediterranean, Vice-Admiral
persistently
relief
induced
station off
Cape Sicie,
whereas
Collingwood had with him fifteen sail of the line only.
On October 21st, Bear-Admiral Baudin,
in the
74,
a
wind.
W.S.W.,
fell
in,
Catalonian
coast,
having
and
which Eear-Admiral
Baudin had
possessions.
Earlj'
in
the
settlement
force.
On
and 50
over the bar.
the
total
miles above the bar,
and Marines
in
was
supported
by
the
at
Babaque,
an
island
In
the
lost,
proceeded up
was
British
army
Major
Henderson
pos-
Fort
in harbour. When
selves in
Diligente
surrendered
on
the
9th
of Fort
and mortars
Cochrane's
mem.,
Feb.
island between the
January Gth, 1809.
about
two
attack some forts
being
apprised
of
the
fall
of
canoes could not keep
an
8-gun
the attack
stormed.
Accordingly
Mr.
Thomas
Savory
defended Hugues's
the
house.
Again
a
flag
of
musketry and
made themselves
An armistice
to
worthy
of
the offing on
Messrs.
to
war
in
1803.
Great
Britain
had
so
affair to
remained in French
hands. The force
by
from Corfu, and by the
Montagu,
74,
Captain
rudder.
The
main
of March 21st, and arrived off
Santa Maura in the evening. It had
oil board a body of troops under
Brigadier-General Oswald. Early
had been wounded.
of not
more than
'
and
were
not
74. After
some fighting,
Dutch
performed in the
Fahie to Cochrane, Feb.
in
the
inner
harbour
before
the
surrender.
12,
was
subsequently
weighed
Madras
European
regiment.
Cole
first Cole
in the
at
once.
Accordingly,
at about 11 p.m., the boats, having on board less than
four
hundred
boats
the British
invaders
battery was
Lieutenant
Kenah
and
Lieutenant
Thomas
Carew
(1)
Casteel
Belgica,
lay
Casteel
Nassau,
The
governor,
however,
distinguished
that it
23rd, 1858.
following morning,
ships,
conse-
quence,
on
Sept.
18th,
1810.
Africaine
IllustHous
Cornwallis
Boadicea
Nisus
florinde.
Menelaus
Nereide .
Pkahe
the
stocks
.
the
1
Taken
Nov.
18th,
1809,
Toulon.
the vessels
anchor
boats
under
Lieutenants
James
Bradley
and
that
the
French
convoys
to attempt an
one of the
British
of
his
gallant
that the
whole affair
have
taken
the
sixth
had
she
with the
loss of
the
till
Mar.
eastward of Batavia,
Dutch had
formidable works were stormed
from August
wounded,
55 wounded,
and three
mander
had
also submitted.
so
vigorously
that
on
September
16th,
and
France
of
since been
deprived of
nearly all
more which
put to
within gunshot
and did
of the line ready
at
Brest
remained
sight to the southward
says,
killed and
had seventeen
wounded. Soon
outlook
was
had
the Allies.
a
new
French
74
which
was
expected
daybreak on
Cosmao-Kerjulien, steering
in order to
to cut them oli
was
she
enabled
to
batteries
took
part,
the
Boijne
suffered
disabled,
besides
injured.^
In
Lieutenant
Waterloo,
on
June
naval
events
;
Martinique,
conducted
foreign
possession
which
she
Seychelles.
France,
however,
was
condemned
26th, 1815.
of
Aug.
10th.
was,
but also as
of Napoleon had
the victor, like
and
1815,
gigantic and
till then
the
exception. But for the
and retaking
Racoon. oiT
treasure
ships
Chase
of
the
Contre-Amiral
Magon
Taking
of the
and
Destruction of the Cygne
—
—Hall in
the Barbate
at Porto Ercole
—The Unite and
Amethyste
—And
St.
Marguerite
Spain
Apulia—
Collier
send
for
of
was
heavy.
Lieutenant
Duthoya
and
8,
or,
in
this
respect
was
just
as
great
matter
French
guns
overboard.
tonnage
to
the
general
following
capture.
2
The
French
loss
carriages,
74,
Captain
Henry
William
part of
the British
the
frigate
had
the
better
but
suffered
severely
herself.
crew greatly
weakened by
of the line
gave chase, overhauled
for
fault
with stones, which marked the first beginnings of the breakwater.
She
struck
upon
the
westernmost
Chiffon
and which
was large
anchor.
boats away was one
time, the
on her
bows, whence
then only
last,
when,
to be
hove in
of
upon
dayhght,
all
suppressing all mention
 
mounted
three
24-prs.
Naiad,
38,
Captain
to
Seins.
the
impetuous
cui-rents,
the
prize, as she
16,
Lieutenant
Lacuee,
36,
Sardinia. The AJcio/i
overtaken,
and
at
Altogether,
she
chasers, and the British ship drew up on the starboard
quarter
and
maintained
a
long
and
had
thrown
twenty
74 should
the
the
no other ship till
out
Troiiin
however,
the
Duguay
Trouin
to cut
French
that
they
escaped,
after
a
carried
away
and
entered
Spanish
waters,
as
a
vessel which asked
a
he might
could
during
the
afternoon,
got
very
close
to
her
and
when
captured
had
only
others
having
been
thrown
overboard
2
Mole
St.
Nicolas,
merchantman
Juno,
18,
Lutwidge
Affleck,
master,
'200
says,
by
the
French
privateer
Bellone,
34,
with
a
French
vessel
boarded,
and
repulsed,
with
6-prs., made
two
fought
the
whole
night,
but
with
the Lord Nelson, and
Bacoon wore
at
wreck.
She
was
believed
to
particulars of
cutter,
8,
the
Brest
Goulet,
observed
two
French
the
chasse-
maree
till
the
drawing
run
ashore
under
a
chasse-maree off',
few
ineffectual
shots
de
Batz,
recently established Patriotic
Isaac
Majesty's
under
British
them
and
which she
boats
but
could
to
be
wounded
which had
still
proceeding,
anticipating
that
in
that
in his
gunshot.'
Captain
Mudge
added
to
the
than the
other. James
posted. He
two
later
a
boat
Kepington.
captured a
French schooner
hand.
On
to
be
the
seamen's
boats;
the
Swiff,
the
Marines'.
whereas
undiscovered,
the
Harmonie
at
the
very
themselves
only one killed
of
sixty-six,
drowned. Everyone
On
November
Vautour,
12,
Lieutenant
Bigot.
from San
Domingo with
fire,
British
Hougue
was
her boats
frigate without
suffering any
was
severely
wounded
same year.
sheer
into
the
sea,
Fort
Eoyal,
taking of
the Eock
nearly ready for
were
of
the
Centaur,
74,
with
60
hailed
by
effect. The British
a
men,
they
were
cables
were
then
injured
wounds;
and
an
enseigne
de
vaisseau,
4
Rey-
nolds
(1)
who
perished
in
the
Sept., 1804,
wounded. A great
During
and 1 wounded. She had many
shot
in her hull, and was fought splendidly. The courage and skill
of
upon
his
arrival
in
a
of money
A sum
towed
and
the
a
after discharging
loss
to
under the gTins
only one
letter.
enough to
any
to the
scattered, and
was 1 killed and
to
attack
the
rear
of
convoy
of the
two enemies,
the Blonde,
enemy was
only
two
vpere
was as
;
two
the despatches
consequence in
Lambert
(2),
armed
enfltlte,
complement,
whilst
frigate
to
which
may
windward of the
passing
on
upon their
to
pursue.
She
or better than,
whether
of
such
his country
privateer
Bonaparte,
18,
Paimpeni
was
and began a
close action. In this the Bonaparte had the worst of
matters, and
upon his crew
men
their quarters
before
was
led
handled
in
a
Nelson, and
any part
of their
valuable cargo
was 16.
On the
3
resolution
of
the
and
they are
in
their
looked
North
Atlantic
by
7
wounded,
2
had been
On
from
the
south-west.
information
British
at the
totally lost
Princess
CJiarlotfc
struck
without firing
replaced.
half
a
trio retired,
her
and
at
nearer
as follows
Montevideo.
Of
The
whereupon the Medusa,
position
last
officer,
then
hailed
the
reply
shortened sail,
their flags.
The Fama
was
overhauled
and
captured,
with
the
help
correspondence.
saved, but with
those who
French privateer Contre-
depreda-
tions
upon
British
men only,
On November
Amongst
the
charge of
perished.''
On
by
a
feigned
flight
drove
it
to
England,
rendezvous
in the afternoon
tack,
hailed
her,
and,
passing
the
Acheron,
and raked the
by
the
Acheron.
She
the
damage
to
her
rigging.
The
convoy
from
the
could do
Acheron,
in
equal
:
 
•custom,
out of
action. At
stern
solitary
fire
from
the
British
small-arms'
party
s
orlop
deck,
and
diverted
battle.
The
be
believed,
with
only
two
been
either
dismounted
p.m. the British ship
action. The San Fiorenzo was
on
the
Bergeret
such as
would always
night on board his
shots.
Bermuda, sighted
speak
any
ship
on
superior
force.
As
paid no
the
as
the
ahead. The French
guns
weight,
that
the
forced to
de
fired
two
her
own.
At
length
she
Milan's
main
rigging, in
impossible to
spring-stays
were
the
critical
moment,
been
placed
mercy
of
her
a
heavy
fire
of
musketry,
attempted
of
suggestion of
his first
struck
by
the
French
bullets.
and carried
the Cleopatra,
a
larger
British
vessel,
had a French crew of 50 men on board ; the
Ville
de
Milan
a
topmast
and
rigging,
The
within
musket-shot
British .50-gun
to
take
posses-
sion
the Ville
overhauled,
Cleopatra's guns. The
Cleopatra.
The
was
purchased
for
badly wounded.'^
anything like equal force.
only
3
Savanna
La
10,
and
on
263;
Nav.
Chron.,
regularly-constructed
masonry
work,
men
1861),
i.
17-1
a
small
French
squadron
some
distance
hazy,
and
by
the
Topaze,
which
had
shot to
pieces, her
masts badly
'
war, and,
but
had
been
of
rocks,
batteries,,
mounting
;
later both
2.
The
Semillante
loss. During-
but
the
British
enemy would
attempt
to
a
20-gun
of
pugnacity.
as
the
the
her
to
bear
down
side.
ahead,
upon
which
the
Didon
passed
Didon
1811,
died
a
full
Admiial,
deck
degree been remedied by the
Captain's
maindeck guns to their
new position. In consequence,
under
first shot is said
mast
that
The
Swift
covered
this
operation,
and
had
already
the mean-
during
the
The Loire
Aserraderos.
The
Wolf,
with
the
boats
of
36,
of the
sent
in,
ships
These
opened
a
heavy
fire
upon
36,
Captain
Walter
On
March
Egijptienne,
44,
Captain
the
Hon.
large
north-western
Spain,
without
suffering
she
morning of
the 13th,
merchantmen
astern.
flagship
wind
other
course,
a
line-of-battle
ship
and
a
frigate,
Marengo
to
fight
their
battle
slowly. At about
brave
resistance,
the Spanish
a
attacked
is
supposed,
damaged the Phaeton's
unable
to
Pique
across
their
hawse,
a
to make her
was pursued, promptly
in the
the
crew of the Phaeton with treachery, because they resorted to
a
ruse
when
boarding-party,
who,
seeing
A
to
the
40,
Guerriere,
40,
Tapageuse,
14,
batteries ; but,
377
carried
her
take her
out, whereupon
another French
Numerous
instances
of
this
kind
of
neglect
occur
despatch,
;
by the
Lord Cochrane stormed a French battery
on
the
Allemand's
squadron,
and
batteries.
The
Kingfisher,
16,
Co'umander
George
Francis
Seymour,
2
brigs,
and
Minerve
struck
broadside from
the Pallas
the
effect
more
against
the
Sirius,
since
she
Natal
frigate. Osborn
wind,
then
hauled
up
on her port quarter, did the same, but, having too
much
sail
cap. The
badly
wounded,
at
by
los
Dolores,
26,
according to
midday
on
the
cienne,
prize. In
stabbed
with
from the
loss whatsoever.'
French privateer
was
scantling.
On
the
night
of
July
Prince
oj
Wales,
98,
Centaur,
Conqueror,
Monarch,
The
16,
Lieutenant
Lieutenant
was deservedly
two
was
one
of
a
squadron
northwards
and
Tons.
fighting
crews.
port.
She
discretion
was
better
The
Captain La Marre
the French
Galatea,
32,
Captain
George
Sayer
(1),
under
^
Venezuelan
ship under
Lieutenant Richard
and
32,
and,
Constance,
however,
unhappily
lost
afterwards
got
off
the French West
Indies. Late that
same night they
line
Thetis
ships from
her starboard
.
,
 
ships was
her ashore, and
shown in capturing
by a
heavy guns, drew oif,
coast of
Mares,
14,
Thomas
Troubridge,
Elphinstone,
son
tremendous
including Lieutenant William
three masts,
and lateen
moving very
gallant
Coombe
probably, for
them. The
most de-
9.15 the Ltjnx was
this gallant
a
at
by
Puerto
Cispata,
under
shelter
of
a
18,
Lieutenant
effective
resistance.
The
On
colours, led in, followed
gallantly
stormed
and Lieutenants
which ship
the
forest,
Watson.
same
ship
two batteries.
a
the deck
water astern,
got away,
however, and
12,
Lieutenant
Pederneira. The French
commerce too
vice-admiral.
British
Uranie,
38,
Captain
Chris-
lost her
company
away,
Manche and Cijgne
the
enemy,
a
distant
broadside
;
luiy.
For
is
seem
his ship.
French
but no
enemy and
party.
sent
prize schooner,
xviii.
spite
her
match
in
the
packet
Windsor
Castle,
8,
William
Eogers,
com-
ten to
hold the
At
and Eogers
carried,
though
the
privateer.^
On
September
been engaging
Anne
had
little heart
in its
25,
like all such craft,
at
was
The
French,
Lieu-
to
the
enemy's
made off
with 2 killed and 13 wounded, leaving the Curieux with 8
killed and 14
for
not
having
was very
superior in force to the Curieux, and as, at that date, the
best
French
striking feature of these middle years of the war. The
seaboard
of
Normandy
and
Brittany,
Straits of
became
embayed
'
the
Spanish
discharge of
of Catalonia, so
impiidence. On
the surrender
a
of
which
town
privateer
Benard,
from
«
range
draw away.
been only
suffered
far
the San
at the
beginning of
match to have
seem
side
of
missed its way
woimded.^
14,
Commander
cut her
was wounded, was made Com., Mar.
28th, 1808.
Schleswig. I cannot find any
official
Danish
report.
180(5. She
said, had
of enticing the
battle. At about 7 p.m. the two ships closed and
opened
on board
hatches
on
have
Captain
Motard
sheered
opponent,
however,
she
repair
weaker ship,
as she
complement
of
6-prs.,
on
:
 
destroyed
of the
French
brig
Griffon,
16,
a
north of Cadiz, under the convoy of about twenty gunboats.
When
off
especially
from
convoj'.*
The
British
severely wounded.
carried off
guns
of
Lundholm.^
On
May
29
wounded,
without
them.*
armed
craft,
captured
with
any
the
next
instance,
her
boats
to
fell
at
almost
Giulia.
probably,
the accuracy of
of
raking
the
soon
got
free
of
50,
and
in
which
vessels,
was
attacked
and
bowsprit,
and
badty
the Tigress,
10
men
to hold
on
the
torpedo
boat
the
Porcu2)ine,
22,
Captain
the
Hon.
Henry
Duncan
(3),
7 wounded.
of
Badere-i-Zaffer,
52,
Captain
Scandril
26,
sighted
his
two
enemies,
who
only twenty yards,
and a close
men, should not be
ship was thus
seemed
to
and
released
the
vessels.
a
French
gunboat.
The
killed.^
Lieutenants
September
later,
the
was
continued
by
of
106;
way from Jamaica
and
of the Laurel were in some
doubt as
when
they made out her formidable nature, they did not shun an
encounter,
though
the
the French
as
follows
turned to starboard
minutes
later,
so
that
both
ships
were
left
wounded
timbers
between
Heureux,
16,
Commander
Thomas
Tudor
there
— all
loss to his crew. A few days later, he captured
a
all the
 
of
Onyx
back
tack,
exchanging a hot tire, and then wore, and hauled up. But the
Horatio
outstripped her in speed of wearing, and was able to rake
her. The
was
fore topsail
to
resistance to
greatly superior
out
On
the British
Proserpine.
The
British
cruiser
brought to
StqKrieure.
painting
attempted to board, and
p.m. the Niemen
hammock-nettings,
and,
The attention of her
but
silent.
The
Amcthijut,
observing
Pompee and Becruit
closed with the
from all
her and
her consorts.
Pompee had
two.
All
near enough
to the
on the horizon
when at 5.15 a.m.
and 90
appointed
her
acting
Captain.
As
for
'
much
damaged,
but
the
ashore on
The ship was so much
shattered as
to be
in
force,
was
overtaken
on
the
was
able
74,
Captain
Charles
Dudley
Dutch schooner Piet Hein,
of Santa
there.
and
had
sailed
for
Feretier,
proceeded
31st,
1809,
sighted
the
Indiamen
Streatham,
30,
distance
separated
three,
the
Streatliam,
which
had
not
as
yet
fired
a
shot,
and,
soon
attempted
to
escape.
She
weakly-manned,
heavily-laden,
and
encumbered
Cape Croisette,
off.
To
secure
retreat
it
was
necessary
to
storm
a
battery
mounting
four
a
few
effect
that
British loss
a number
which
encircles
the
shore.
Under
was sunk,
terrible
loss.
Lieutenant
and July 1st, 1809.
intention
of
co-operating
Cuxhaven,
and destroyed
from
cutting off a
near
captured
ship
with
a
great
quantity
of the Excellent,
that
had taken shelter there. At the same time a party of Marines
landed
to
hold
completely
i.
126;
Nm:
her
received a
squadrons off Reunion
good harbour in the
a
government
store-house,
containing
silk
a heavy
and
9
wounded,
38,
Captain
On November
5th,
1810.
night to cut
often
figures
off
Desirade.
The
Scorpion
and
the
off
the
port,
attacked them,
the
had
Gardiner Henry
without, on
growing
Dieppe
harbour,
and
boarded
and
carried
been
informed
that
privateer
that the
officers unwilling
to duty
in the
off
Guadeloupe,
to
bring
After
a
running
fight
with
the
way, the
at
anchor
in
1
James,
v.
229;
island,
vessels
Nereide turned on
returned
captured the
into Havick
to this day.
10,
Lieutenant
Eichard
Welch,
were
a
strict
by
the
Nereide,
36,
off
which
was
the
ship.
them
two
field
pieces. Day broke and revealed to the British the second
battery
beyond
rallied.
Willoughby
immediately
the
schooner
Estafette,
American
loss
base.
His
jaw
two
ships,
8,
Having stood
standing
out
and
Sparviero,
after
manoeuvring
fire.
main deck.
As the
subsequently
By
Standing on to within
while
at the larger
the
Spartan
after the Cerere
Cerere
nearly
the Spartan to
Achille,
and
the
Baia
batteries
damaged,
was
after
the
affair,
95
guns
Master's Mate
Brenton
and
1812. Willes
on
Bourne, and
3'15.
p.m. on
the
vessels
of the
and
the
vessels,
25
division from
Maran
attacked,
obliged
to
surrender.
Before
night,
fourteen
of
the
prizes
were
these
addition to the
by
the
wounded,
hauled
has
a
braver
defence
been
made
by
1810,
elaborate
preparations
began
as
it
36,
Captain
Nisbet Josiah Willoughby, from off Mauritius, arrived to escort the
expedition. On July 3rd,
a
rendezvous,
about
were
perfected ;
-Colonel
Lieut.
-Colonels
Henry
the afternoon,
while the
militia
effected
a
the
operation
was
boats. Fi;rther disembarkation
in. Fort Ste. Marie.
Grande
Chaloupe
22
killed
and
drowned,
and
possession
to
escape
boarded and
Townshend Farquhar,^
Samuel Nisbett,
to the
side of
political
agitations
as
well
as
for
military
operations
west
coast,
Pym,
with
the
and,
that
evening,
in
terrible
weather,
tried
to
effect
a
difl'erent
routes,
the
Siriiis
going
round
and
that any
July
^
endeavouring
to
surrendered,
having
the
the British
to Port Louis.
ajDparently
so
was
suddenly
'
^
and Ceylon,^ was
the
corvette
broadsides. At
that time
the
Minerve
and
Victor,
was
preparing
to
in
and
attack
them.
possible.
Victor,
on
the
ground
the
all
that
means of works on
It
prize Indiaman, Wiftdham,
attempt to cut
her off from
knowing
what
she
was,
Lieutenant
John
Wyatt
Watling
his ships,
got within range,
a position
and
of attack
not
however,
bore upon
and was
Bellone
and
took
a
of
to say we had struck,
being entirely
Iphir/enia
board.
the batteries
and the
the
latter
to
say
we
the enemy
ceased firing.
About 2
possession
Sirius should set fire
including 69
men of
eye
Thomas
S.
Cox,
the ship's
The
Sirius,
being
ships
was
Her people, and some
afloat, and, in
were
soon
afterwards_
tried
for
Captain
Willoughby
was
injudicious
carried
to
render
all
Eegiment, and
Boadicea made slow
Magicienne's
barge,
which,
been detached with letters
by Captain Lambert on
subsequently
returned
to
He
de
la
September 9th,
had
his
sent up rockets
the
Commodore to
the ship bravely until
49
Theed
Charles
killed and 33
did
not
behave
as
stood
their
prize
Africaine,
more than
the Astree
armed brig
besides the
Astree and Iphigenie, the French had the Venus and Manche in the
immediate neighbourhood, Rowley's recapture of
the
Africaine
Port Louis on September 17th,
she
saw
harbour, and, bearing up,
at a few minutes
36-pr, carronades,
or forty-four
hour,
at
the
expiration
of
and their
took
the
Ceylon
armament
added
stranger
changed
her
colours
to
French,
she
received
a
p.m.
there
battery
and
of the
27th,
Che,
in
Basque
Eoad.
They
were
further
protected
of the
Neale,
Bart.,
Valiant,
74,
Captain
Robert
Dudley
mouth of the
to
had
troops
on
board,
disembarked
that
Hoste
had
been
Richard Hussey
2
killed
and
1
object
of
them
off;
navigation, bore up,
situation
Frenchman
had
removed,
made
vain,
to
get
near
to
desist,
and
retire
out
of
her, and, with
wearing
brig
between
the
two,
laid
himself
alongside
starboard broadside.
proved to be
consequence of the
midway between Malaga and Almeria. They moimted among
them
without
her
privateers
star-
board
sweeps,
and
got
port
guns
to
drove off three
and bowsprit of
beaten off'. Having
half
occurred on
18,
a
sisted of eight
by
another
the
British,
who
on
the
way
back
to
1
man
wounded,
captured
three
mer-
the
course
of
74,
Captain
James
Macnamara
(2).
then stood in
as close as
possible to the
the attack
some grounds, should,
was fought
this squadron
of the Danae,
well
nigh
the
battle
windward
British ships would permit. At 3 p.m. the Active and
Cerberus succeeded
the
Corona,
three frigates
taken and
up.
already considered belonging
of my
assertion.
The
correspondence
I
have
whole
being
under
favourable
York. When, at
the
Danes
had
already
he
fire from
works, however,
of
the
Danish
leaders
was manned
besiegers
Girafc
and
Nourrice
blew
their fate. In
this affair the
2-5,
they
drove her
encouraged
been
wounded,
the
below
that
the
colours
and, pistol
Commander
Nesbit
the Cadiz station.
not
made
a
18,
and
Giiepc,
8.
At
about
12.40
p.m.
a
until 2.1.5
P.M., when
both Frenchmen,
; C. M., May 30th, 181-1 ; Nav. Chron., xxv. 504. James (
vi.
53)
believes
that
at
the
in his pocket,
can
find
no
corroboration
the
Menoinmee
the distance, feared
defend
herself.
ships appeared off the
on September 16th.
Legion
Benommee
as
the
Java.
Chamberlayne
could
of closing
Lieutenant John
battery
brought out,
11
stormed the tower,
was
'
the Partridge
of
eminence ;
while the first
The convoy
and
On
10,
Lieu-
tenant
John
Aitken
had
gained
to Devon to
that occasion
the
Lilgum,
swept
out
tinued
fighting,
and
hoisted
the
recall
Lieutenant (E.M.)
passed within the
the gunboats,
four in
be
under
the
protection
wearing
to
prevent
the
third
brig
exposed to a
was
were
14;
amid
his
object
by the
Elbe,
from
Eochefort.
In
time,
a
It
was
frigates
close
to
Holmes
and
Timothy
Eenou,
to
cut
7th
those
vessels
Calvados, and,
the
boats
she could get off
at Boulogne,
the
Naiad,
38,
Captain
Philip
Carteret
(3)
; and
Bonaparte
out and attack her. Carteret waited with springs on his
cable, and,
for about
half an
hour, sustained
with
a
view
to
retired under
had
lost
between
Positano, in
Eaton
Stannard
Travers
sent
in
; and,
gunboats,
with
a
the craft
the
troops,
with
the
Marines
of
destroyed, the six
important
June
guns, and
had 28
without any defence, seeing
lay in
the whole
nalled three
out
port tack,
stood towards
the British;
biit soon
after her, and
This
bred
great
placed
herself
upon
the
engaged
firing ensued between the Active
and the
in
a
condition
to
off, and
consideration
of
her
condition,
with terrible
was
unfortunate
frigate
President
and
the
with Britain, it
semi-piratical
depredations
squadron
having
the
GrowJer,
12,
Lieutenant
John
Weeks,
occasionally
exposed
to
Foretier tried to
of
-battle
betrayed greater
p.m., the Northumberland,
deserted
by
their
crews,
and
when
the
at
11
she
was
clearly
only
French
both
the
others
an
old
privateer's
man,
February 2nd,
squadron was
over-
at
1757,
and
long
6-prs.,
with
12-prs.
as
battery.
Gaspard's
Latona
one
Borgellat,
Yeo fell in
to
Lieutenant
Thomas
of
the
Bivoli,
wounded. Her hull
had
S
Henry
escaped
gold medal
10,
24-prs. and an 8-in. howitzer, and carried .50 men. Finding,
however,
that
she
was
exposing
in
support,
the
Bosario
which she descried in the offing, and flew the signal
for an
on board one
Griffon
could
get
within
gunshot.
drive off any troops
boats,
under
Lieutenant
resistance,
brought
off all the craft without casualty. On the '28th, the
same
but, as
of the Genoese
privateers, Giuseppe Bavastro,
is a centre
pro-
In
the
meantime,
57th Eegt.,
specially
dis-
tinguished
themselves,
38,
Captain
Bichard
Thomas
(2),
Volontaire,
38,
18,
the
westward
Barbastro. Eandaccio
of a
Soutli
American
battery and
from field
In
May,
the
12th,
two
the
darkness
the
enemy
through both
arms, and
acting Master
south of Spain, and
assisted
by
town,
had
chon,
men
was
off and
and
having
been
28
wounded.
The
the
Benard,
San
Juan
de
Ulloa,
and
died
an
pression
battery on a
opened
breached, and that
by
Marines
from
that
frigate
21st,
the
landing
of
of about
7th, and
the
Lyra,
10,
Bagona.
made
large body
was
heavy,
amounting
not
be
On
July
Lennock
stood
in,
to
endeavour
to
of
of a
large French
privateer, close
under the
French shore,
was made a