Nelson: Britannia's God of War (75 page)

31 Stuart to H. Dundas 13.7.1794; NRS p. 406

32 Nelson to Hood 18 and 19.7.1794; NRS pp. 407–9. Fortescue p. 193

33 Hood to Nelson 19.7.1794; NRS p. 408. Nelson to Hood 20.7.1794; NRS p. 409

34 Hood to Nelson 20, 21 and 22.7.1794; NRS pp. 410–12

35 Elliot to Duke of Portland (Secretary of State for Home Affairs, now responsible for the island). 28.8.1794; NRS pp. 417–18

36 Nelson to Wife. 25.8.1794. Naish p. 121.

37 Nelson to Elliot 4.8.1794. Nelson to Hood 5, 8, 9 and 10.8.1794. Nelson to Agent of Transports at San Fiorenzo 6.8.1794; Nicolas I pp. 464–73

38 Nelson to Clarence 6–10.8.1794; Nicolas I pp. 474–6

39 Nelson to Wife 18 and 25.8.1794; Naish pp. 119–21

40 Rose, pp. 73–4

1 Nelson to Wife 1.9.1794; Naish pp. 121–2

2 Nelson to Wife 12.9.1794; Naish pp. 122–3

3 Nelson to Suckling 20.9.1794; Nicolas I p. 485

4 Nelson to Hood 23.9.1794; Nicolas I p. 486. Nelson to Wife 27.9.1794; Naish pp. 124–5. See Nelson to Suckling 20.9.1794; Nicolas I p. 486 for a more favourable view. A week was all it took to disabuse him of his optimism.

5 Nelson to Hood 2.10.1794 and Hood to Nelson 1.12.1794; Nicolas I pp. 487–8

6 Lambert, A. D. ‘Admiral Lord Hotham, Command and Reputation in the Age of Nelson’, in Lefevre, P. and Harding, R. eds.
Contemporaries
of
Nelson.
2004

7 Nelson to Wife 10.10.1794 and continuation on 12.10; Naish pp. 125–6

8 Nelson to Wife 24.10.1794; Naish pp. 185–6

9 Nelson to Locker 10.10.1794; Nicolas I p. 490.

10 Nelson to Elliot 10.11.1794 and end.; Nicolas I pp. 497–8

11 Nelson to Clarence 19.1.1795; Nicolas II pp. 1–2

12 Nelson to Clarence 11.1794; Nelson to Suckling 28.11.1794; Nicolas pp. 50I–3

13 Nelson to Wife 12 and 28.11.1794; Naish pp. 187–9

14 Nelson to Wife 12.11.1794; Naish p. 187

15 Nelson to Wife 23.1.1795; Naish p. 193

16 Nelson to Wife 31.1.1795; Naish pp. 194–5. Pocock, T.
Horatio
Nelson,
pp. 124–5. Vincent pp. 139–41.

17 Nelson to Wife 17.1.1795; Naish p. 192

18 Nelson to Wife 23.1.1795; Naish p. 193

19 Nelson to Wife 23–24.1.795; Naish p. 193

20 Nelson to Wife 31.1.1795; Naish pp. 194–5

21 Nelson to Wife 7.6.1795; Naish pp. 210–1

22 Nelson to Wife 25.2.1795; Naish p. 197

23 Nelson to Wife 2, 6 and 10.3.1795; Naish pp. 197–9

24 Nelson to Clarence 24.4.1795; Nicolas II p. 31

25 Nelson to Clarence 15.3.1795, Nelson to Locker 21.3.1795; Nicolas II pp. 19–22

26 Nelson to Suckling 22.3.1795; Nicolas II pp. 22–3. Nelson to Wife 23.3. and 28.3.1795; Naish pp. 201–3.

27 Nelson to Wife 1.4.1795; Naish pp. 203–5

28 Nelson to Locker 4.5.1795; Nicolas II pp. 34–6

29 Nelson to Elliot 12.4.1795; Naish pp. 405–6. Nelson to Elliot 16.4.1795 and Nelson to Clarence 16.4.1795; Nicolas II pp. 30–1

30 Nelson to Wife 7.5.1795; Naish p. 208

31 Nelson to Suckling 24.4.1795; Nicolas II p. 33. Nelson to Wife 28.4.1795; Naish pp. 207–8.

32 Nelson to Wife 22 and 29.5.1795; Naish pp. 209–10

33 Nelson to Wife 7.6.1795; Naish pp. 210–11. Nelson to Suckling 7.5.1795; Nelson to William Nelson 8.6.1795; Nicolas II pp. 40–2

34 Nelson to Wife 15.6.1795; Naish pp. 211–12

35 Nelson to Locker 18.6.1795; Nicolas II pp. 43–4

36 Nelson to Wife 1.7.1795; Naish p. 214

37 Syrett, D. and DiNardo, R. eds.
The
Commissioned
Sea
Officers
of
the
Royal
Navy;
1660
–
1815.
London Navy Records Society, 1994, p. 6.

38 Nelson to Locker 8.7.1795, Nelson to Clarence 15.7.1795; Nicolas II pp. 49–52. Nelson to Wife 9–14.7.1795; Naish pp. 215–16

39 Nelson to Drake 18.7.1795; and Nelson to Hotham 22.7.1795; Nicolas II PP–53–4, 57–9. Nelson to Wife 18.7.1795; Naish pp. 216–17

40 Nelson to Spencer 19.7.1795, Spencer to Hood 27.3.1795; Nicolas II pp. 56–7

41 Nelson to Wife 2.8.1795; Naish pp. 218–19

42 Nelson to Wife 24.7.1795; Naish pp. 217–18

43 Nelson to William Nelson 29.7.1795; Nicolas II pp. 63–4

44 Nelson to Drake 6.8. to Cockburn 8.8. and Elliot 13.8.1795; Nicolas II pp. 66–9

45 Nelson to Locker 19.8.1795; Nicolas II pp. 69–71

46 Nelson to Hotham 27 and 31.8.1795; Nicolas II pp. 73–7

47 Nelson to Wife 1, 15.9.1795, Hotham to Nelson 4.9.1795, Nelson to Hotham 20.9.1795; Naish p. 221–2, 236, 246–7. Nelson to De Vins 9 and 17.9.1795, to Drake 9 and 18.9.1795, to Hotham 17.9.1795; Nicolas II 79–86

48 Nelson to Wife 21.9.1795; Naish pp. 222–3. Nelson to Elliot 24.9.1795; Nicolas II pp. 87–9.

49 Nelson to Neapolitan Commander 1.10.1795; Nicolas II pp. 90–1

50 Nelson to Suckling 27.10.1795; Nicolas II pp. 92–3

51 Nelson to Wife 2.11.1795; Naish pp. 225–6

52 Nelson to Wife 13.11.1795; Naish pp. 227–8. Nelson to De Vins 7.11. to Drake 12.11. and to Admiralty 13.11.1795; Nicolas II pp. 95–7

53 Nelson 6.11.1795; Nicolas II p. 94

54 Nelson to Drake 27.11.1795. Nelson to Elliot 4.12.1795; Nicolas II pp. 108–9, 112–4. Nelson to Hyde Parker 2.12.1795; Naish pp. 251–2

55 Nelson to Wife 2.12.1795; Naish pp. 228–30

56 Nelson to Jervis 21.12.1795; Nicolas II pp. 12.0–1. Vado Bay Journal; Naish pp. 241–5

57 Nelson to Wife 18 &25.12.1795; Naish pp. 230–3

58 See Nelson’s speech to the House of Lords on 30.10.1801, Nicolas IV p.520.

59 Hood,
The
Admirals
Hood
is the only full length treatment, although Hood shares the book with his younger brother Alexander, Lord Bridport, and his cousins Alexander, and Samuel, one of the Nile captains. Hannay, ed.
Letters
Written
by
Sir
Samuel
Hood
(Viscount
Hood)
in
1781
–
2
–
3
.
London Navy Records Society 1895 offers a valuable record of the Admiral when Nelson joined his school. Duffy, M., ‘Samuel Hood, First Viscount Hood 1724–1816’, in LeFevre, P. and Harding, R.,
Precursors
of
Nelson;
British
Admirals
of
the
Eighteenth
Century,
London, 2000, pp. 249–78, is the latest treatment.

60 Crook, M.
Toulon
in
War
and
Revolution,
pp. 144–60

61 Rose,
Lord
Hood
and
the
Defence
of
Toulon.

62 Duffy, p. 268

63 Duffy, p. 259

64 Nelson to William. Nelson 31.1.1783; Nicolas I p. 98

1 Thorne, R. G.
History
of
Parliament
1790
–
1820.
Members
G
–
P,
pp. 305–6

2 Jervis to Spencer 18.7.1796; Corbett, J. (ed.),
The
Spencer
Papers
vol. II (henceforth Sp. II) p. 37

3 Jervis to Spencer 18.5.1796; Sp. II p. 23

4 Jervis to Spencer 29.12.1796; Sp. II p. 84

5 Nelson to Wife 14.12.1796; Naish pp. 310–11

6 Jervis to Spencer 29.7.1796; Sp. II p. 43

7 Jervis to Spencer 8.1796; Sp. II p. 48

8 Jervis to Spencer 11.11.1796; Sp. II p. 72

9 Jervis to Spencer 22.5.1797; Sp. II p. 403

10 Berckman,
Nelson’s
Dear
Lord;
A
Portrait
of
St
Vincent,
p. 196

11 See BL Add. 34, 918 f. 50 for an example.

12 Arthur,
The
Remaking
of
the
English
Navy
by
Admiral
St
Vincent,
1986
provides a useful treatment of the Ear’s contribution.

13 For Cornwallis see Lambert in Lefevre and Harding.

14
Minto
II
pp. 278–81, 345–51

15 Nelson to Wife 23.8.1796; Naish pp. 301–2. This may explain the initially cold relationship between the two men in the spring of 1801.

16 Nelson to Wife 6 and 14.1.1796; Naish pp. 233–4

17 Nelson to Wife 20.1.796; Naish pp. 281–2

18 Jervis to Spencer 24.1.1796
Spencer
Papers
II pp. 10–12

19 Spencer to Nelson 15.1.1796; Naish pp. 333–4

20 Nelson to Wife 27.1.1796; Naish p. 282

21 Nelson to Wife 12.2.1796; Naish p. 283

22 Nelson to Wife 28.1.1796; Naish pp. 284–5

23 Nelson to Trevor 2.3.1796; to Locker 4.3.1796; to Elliot 10.3.1796; to Hamilton 11.3.1796; to Jervis 16.3.1796; Nicolas pp. 128–38. Nelson to Wife 11.3.1796; Naish pp. 285–6

24 Chandler, D.
The
Campaigns
of
Napoleon,
pp. 41, 47

25 Ibid. p. 47

26
Sherwig, p. 76

27 Jervis to Spencer 28.3.1796; Sp. II p. 21

28 Nelson to Wife 24.4.1796; Naish pp. 290–1

29 Nelson to Wife 1 and 9.4.1796, Jervis to Elliot 5.4.1796; Naish pp. 287–8, 338–9. Nelson to Drake 6 and 11.4.1796;, to Jervis 8, 9 and 13.4.1796; Nicolas II pp. 142–52. Nelson to Spencer 11.4.1796; Nicolas VII p. xlvii.

30 Spencer to Nelson 26.5.1796; Naish p. 335

31 Nelson to Wife 19.4.1796; Naish p. 289

32 Nelson to Jervis 25.4.1796; Nicolas II pp. 161–2

33 Nelson to Jervis 26.4.1796; Nicolas II pp. 162–3

34 Nelson to Jervis 1, 8, 15,18.5.1796; Nelson to Elliot 16.5.1796; Nicolas II pp. 164–73

35 Nelson to Jervis 14.5.1796; Nicolas VII p. lxix

36 Jervis to Nelson 11 and 22.5.1796; Naish pp. 336–7

37 Nelson to Jervis 23.5.1796; Nicolas II p. 174

38 Nelson to Wife 20 and 27.5.1796; Naish pp. 292–5

39 Cockburn was one of Hood’s protégés, and Nelson’s dispatch was carefully shaped to secure his place in Jervis’s affections.

40 Nelson to Jervis 4.6.1796; Nicolas VII p. lxix

41 Nelson to Colonel Graham 19.6.1796; Nicolas VII pp. lxxxiii–iv

42 Nelson to Jervis 20.6.1796; Nicolas VII p. lxxxv

43 Jervis to Nelson 1.6.1796; Nicolas II pp. 335–6. Nelson to Jervis 4 and 9.6.1796; Nicolas VII p. lxxix–lxxxii. Nelson to Wife 13.6.1796; Naish pp. 295–6

44 Nelson to Jervis 28.6.1796; Nicolas II pp. 194–5

45 Nelson to Wife 21.6.1796; Naish p. 296

46 Nelson to Jervis 23, 24 and 28.6.1796; Nicolas II pp. 189–95

47 Jervis to Nelson 29.6.1796; Brenton I pp. 176–7

48 Nelson to Elliot 2.7.1796; Nicolas II pp. 198–200. Elliot to Nelson 6.7.1796; Naish p. 341

49 Nelson to Neutral Consuls at Leghorn 7.7.1796; Nicolas II p. 206. Nelson to Wife 7.7.1796; Naish pp. 296–7

50 Nelson to Jervis 9 and 10.7.1796; Nicolas II pp. 207–9

51 Jervis to Nelson 13 and 14.7.1796, Jervis to Elliot 14.7.1796; Naish pp. 337–9

52 Elliot to Nelson 17.7.1796; Naish pp. 341–2

53 Nelson to Wife 21–3.7.1796; Naish pp. 297–8

54 Nelson to Clarence 20.7.1796; Nicolas II pp. 218–9

55 Nelson to Jervis 23.7.1796; Nicolas VII p. xlii

56 Jervis to Elliot 25.7.1796; Naish p. 339. Jervis to Spencer 18 and 27.7.1796; Spencer II pp. 37 and 42

57 Nelson to Elliot 5.8.1796; Elliot to Nelson 6.8.1796; Naish pp. 341–2. Nelson to Elliot 10 and 11.8.1796; Nicolas II pp. 238–40

58 Jervis to Nelson 31.7.1796; Brenton I pp. 192–3. Nelson to Jervis 15.8.1796; Nicolas VII p. xlix

59 Jervis to Spencer 11.8.1796; Spencer II pp. 46–7. Jervis to Elliot 12.8.1796; Naish p. 339.

60 Nelson to Father 19.8.1796; Nicolas II pp. 244–5

61 Nelson to Elliot 25.8.1796; Nicolas II. pp. 253–5

62 Nelson to Clarence 19.8.1796; Nicolas II pp. 245–6

63 Elliot to Nelson 30.8.1796; Naish pp. 344–5

64 Nelson to Wife 10.9.1796; Naish p. 303