Nelson: Britannia's God of War by Andrew Lambert Page A

Bismarck ,took Churchill to meet President Roosevelt and was sunk off Singapore. He was lost with his ship.
    36 Thatcher, The Downing Street Years ,p. 179
    37 Thatcher, p. 235
    38 Colley, Britons ,pp. 8–9 provides a clear indictment of such attitudes.
    39 Colley, p. 9
    40 Hood to Nelson 26.8.1805; Add. 34,930 f 250. Hood admits passing a letter to Lord Aylesbury.
    41 The prominent position given to Nelson was sustained in the 1999 edition of the Doctrine. British Maritime Doctrine BR 1806. London HMSO 1999
    42 Collingwood to Admiral Sir Peter Parker 1.11.1805 and Collingwood to Edward Collingwood 25.10.1805; Owen, C. H. H. ed. ‘Letters from Collingwood, 1794–1809’ in Duffy, M. ed. The Naval Miscellany VI. Aldershot Navy Records Society 2003, pp. 182–5
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    1 Williams, H. M. Sketches of the State of Manners and Opinions in the French Republic ,2 vols. London 1801. I p. 206 and 222–3. Nelson’s own copy, suitably annotated, is Add. 34,391
    2 Nelson to Alexander Stephens 10.2.1802; Nicolas V p. 43
    3 Charnock, Life of Nelson ,p. vii.
    4 Ibid. pp. 184–6
    5 Joshua White’s Professional Life of Lord Nelson ,2nd revised edn. pp. 144–5, calls Ruffo’s armistice ‘infamous’ but misunderstands Nelson’s actions. A second book by the same publisher appeared in 1813, to profit from the sales of Southey. The author was named as ‘Richard Clarke’.
    6 Harrison, The Life of Horatio , Lord Viscount Nelson of the Nile
    7 Harrison, II pp. 104–5. Harrison invented the nonsense that ‘Tyrolese riflemen’ were in the French fighting-tops; II p. 499
    8 Harrison II p. 99
    9 Foote, E. Vindication 2nd edn, London 1810. This edition is the most useful, as it reproduces his correspondence with Clarke.
    10 Clarke to Foote 20.4.1807; Foote pp. 40–1
    11 Clarke to Foote 31.1.1809; Foote p. 43
    12 Clarke and McArthur I have used the late 1830 three-volume edition, which is at least portable. II pp. 162 and 187
    13 Both Gutteridge and Russell make this point.
    14 Southey, R. Life of Nelson ,1922 edition ed. G. Callendar, p. xxviii
    15 Ibid, p. 183
    16 Quarterly Review 1814, p. 73. The entry was unsigned, but Shine uncovers the authors, p. 41.
    17 Ibid. p. 77.
    18 James, W. The Naval History of Great Britain. 4, later 6 vols. London 1822–4, 2nd edn 1826. See the introduction to the 2002 edn. for a discussion of James, his methods and motives.
    19 James II pp. 274–80
    20 Brenton, E. P. The Naval History of Great Britain. 2 vols. London 1837 vol. I P. 484.
    21 Collier to Nicolas 16.5.1845; Nicolas III p. 522
    22 Harcourt, Rev. L V. Diaries and Correspondence of the Rt. Hon. George Rose ,London, 1860, Vol. I, pp. 215–39
    23 Alison, A., History of Europe in 19 volumes, London 1833–42 and 1852–59
    24 Gooch, G. P., History and Historians in the Nineteenth Century , London, 1913, p. 435. Acton, H. The Bourbons of Naples , London, 1956 provides a critical assessment of Colletta’s position and conduct.
    25 Dumas, A. Le Corricolo ,Paris, 1983 edn., Chapter X pp. 110–25 comprises a detailed discussion of the capitulation of the forts and the trial and execution of Caracciolo, which is entirely hostile to Nelson and Ferdinand.
    26 Hemmings, The King of Romance : A Portrait of Alexandre Dumas ,pp. 189, 197–8
    27 White, A. J., The Political Life of Cavour 1848–1861, Oxford, 1930, p. 442
    28 Mahan Life ,2nd edn. 1899, p. v and Chapters XI and XII. Comparing those chapters to the 1st edn. reveals just how much extra work had been required.
    29 Published by the Navy Records Society.
    30 Vincent is a distinguished exception here, pp. 325–33. His defence is realistic, well founded and robust.
    31 Southey is the chief culprit, although more because of the literary success of his text that the sophistication of his argument. For his treatment of these events, and an effective demonstration of his many errors of fact and interpretation, see Callender’s 1922 edition, at p. 166. The entire chapter on Naples repays close