Nelson: Britannia's God of War (88 page)

McArthur, John
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McArthur family
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Mack, General
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Maclise, Daniel
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Maddalena Islands
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Madeira
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Madrid
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Magon, Rear Admiral Charles
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Mahan, Captain Alfred Thayer
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Life
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Mahon
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Maillebois, Marshal de
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Majestic
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Malmesbury, Lord
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Malta
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French install garrison
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fall of
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blockade of
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N blocks Russian schemes to seize the island
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Ball’s chief command ashore
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N requests troops from Minorca
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French attempts to supply the garrison
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battle with last of French fleet
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Britain accepts surrender of
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and Treaty of Amiens
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British base
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Tsar Alexander’s demand
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protecting
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Mamelukes
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Mansion House, London
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Man, Rear Admiral
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Mantua, siege of
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Marengo, battle of
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Maria Carolina, Queen of Naples
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Marie Antoinette, Queen of France
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Maritimo
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Markham, Admiral
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Marlborough
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Marlborough, John Churchill, 1st Duke of
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Mars
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Marseilles
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blockade of
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sack of
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Martinique
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Matcham, Catherine
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Matra, James
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Mazzaredo, Admiral
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medical care
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Mediterranean

British Government begins to focus on
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convoys
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reoccupation of
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a more substantial force sent to
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French domination
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Nelson in
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Mediterranean Fleet
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Medusa,
HMS
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Medway River
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Melpomene
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Melville, Hermann
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Melville, Lord
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‘Memorandum on the Defence of the Thames Estuary etc.’
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Mercure
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Merton, Surrey
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Messina
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Micheroux, Chevalier
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Middle Ground
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Middleton, Admiral Sir Charles
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Milan: allied council of war
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Miles, Commander Jeaffreson:
Vindication
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Milford
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Miller, Captain Ralph
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battle of the Nile
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Minden, battle of (1759)
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Minerve
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Minorca
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Minotaur
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Minto, Gilbert Elliot, Lord
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Civil Commissioner in Toulon
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and Corsica
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view of D’Aubant
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reports French advance on Sardinia
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always short of money and troops
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Elba seized
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abandoned Leghorn operation
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N admires his political ability
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and N’s Order of the Bath
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and House of Lords vote of thanks to N
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and Emma Hamilton
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and telescope incident
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and N as the British deterrent
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Modena
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Moira, Lord
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Mole, Tenerife
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Monachique fort
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Monarch
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Monmouth
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Monmouth
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Monteciesco battery, Corsica
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Montpelier
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Montserrat
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Moore, Lieutenant–Colonel John
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Moorsom, Captain Robert
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Morning
Chronicle
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Morning
Post
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Mornington, Governor General Lord
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Morocco, Emperor of
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Moseley, Dr
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Mosse, Captain
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Moubray, Captain
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Moutray, Commissioner
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Moutray, Mary
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Mozzelle fort, Corsica
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Murray, George in,
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Murray, John
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Mutine
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Mysore
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Namur
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Nancy
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Naples
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Troubridge sent ashore
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described
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capital of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
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Emma Hamilton’s ‘attitudes’
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evacuation
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N instructed to secure
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N’s obsession with
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strategic importance
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N’s welcome in
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treachery and cowardice in
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new Partheopaean Republic (1799)
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close blockade
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defence of
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N secures
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sloth of
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makes peace with Bonaparte
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feebleness
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intelligencemissions
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protecting
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Naples, King of
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Naples–Gibraltar–Toulon triangle
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Naples Bay
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Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France
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Italian campaign (1796)
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invasion plans
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advocates turning to the Levant
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planned Indian conquest
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escapes from Egypt
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Austria and Naples make peace with him
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favourite negotiating technique
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moves his troops to the Channel
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Generalissimo of the Army of Invasion
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N on
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his demands on the Swiss
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uses Peace of Amiens
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sells Louisiana
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becomes Emperor
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failure of his grand naval strategy
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orders for the fleet to sail (Trafalgar)
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downfall of
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Napoleonic wars
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National Gallery of Marine Paintings, Greenwich
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National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
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Naval
Chronicle
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Naval General Service Medal
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naval tactics
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Navigation Acts
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Navy Board, Tower Hill, London
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Navy League
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Navy List
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Navy Records Society
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Neapolitan Court
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Neapolitan Review
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Needles, Isle of Wight
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Nelson, Catherine
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Suckling; N’s mother)
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Nelson, Catherine (N’s sister)
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Nelson, Edmund (N’s brother)
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Nelson, Reverend Edmund (N’s father)
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Nelson, Frances (Fanny;
née
Nisbet; N’s wife)
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meets N
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relationship with N
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marries N
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correspondence with N
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pleads that N give up heroic activities
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attends a Royal Levee with N
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N asks her to take a house in London
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abandoned for Lady Hamilton
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warned not to go to Sicily
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marriage break
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persistently tries to win N back
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settlement by N
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N determined not to go back to her
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N tells her he wishes to be left alone
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and N’s father’s death
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Emma’s campaign to discredit her
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and Clarke
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Nelson,
HMS
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Nelson, Horatia (N’s daughter)
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Nelson, Vice Admiral Horatio, Viscount

birth (29 September 1758)
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family background
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childhood
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first goes to sea
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obtains his commission (1777)
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first prizes
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expedition in Spanish central America
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concern to manage his own publicity
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meets Fanny Nisbet
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relationship with Fanny
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marriage (1787)
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given the
Agamemnon
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needs to understand the rationale of his orders
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picked to lead one of the fleet’s three divisions
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starts to keep a sea journal
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first attacks a battleship
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Corsican campaign
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eye injury at Corsica
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abhorrence of drunkenness
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similarities in style to Jervis
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brief Baltic command (1801)
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receives a pendant
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confirmed as Commodore
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relationship with Jervis
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battle of Cape St Vincent
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Knight of the Bath
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promoted to Rear Admiral
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loss of right arm at Tenerife
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Freedom of the City of London
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fame firmly established
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convalesces in England
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ordered to pursue enemy armament

injured at the battle of the Nile
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saviour of India
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relationship with Sir William Hamilton
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