Identifier: cu31924028018574 (find matches)
Title: The Royal Navy
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Swinburne, Henry Lawrence Wilkinson, Norman, 1878-1934 illus Jellicoe, John Rushworth Jellicoe, Earl, 1859-1935, illus
Subjects: Great Britain. Royal Navy Great Britain. Royal Navy
Publisher: London, A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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. Villeneuve remainedonly a few days at Vigo, whence he proceeded toFerrol, while Calder joined Cornwallis off Ushant. The critical time had now come for the plans ofBonaparte. Villeneuve had his orders to leaveFerrol, and appear before Brest, where he wasforbidden to enter the port; but Ganteaume wasto come out and meet him, and the combined fleetwas to proceed to Boulogne, where the Army ofEngland was assembled, and, said Bonaparte, ** Weshall have avenged six centuries of insults andshame. But Villeneuve was not the man for thetask, nor were his ships in a fit state. Accordingly,when the unfortunate admiral, with his ships wornout and reeking with disease, and his officers andmen demoralised, encountered certain ships whichhe thought were a detachment of a large Britishfleet, he put over his helm and went southward toCadiz, where he anchored on 17th August. Whata fleet! What sacrifices for nothing 1 What an ACTION BETWEEN H.M.S. PHCENIX AND THEFRENCH FRIGATE DIDON August lotb, 1805
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NAVY OF THE NAPOLEONIC ERA 181 admiral! All hope destroyed ! cried Bonapartein the bitterness of his disappointment; and thus,before Trafalgar was fought, the projects for theinvasion of England were at an end, and Bonaparteturned to those military enterprises on land forthe accomplishment of which his genius betterfitted him. I am sure you bring me news of the Frenchand Spanish fleets, and I think I shall yet have tobeat them I So spoke Nelson to Captain Blackwoodof the Euryalus, who visited him at Merton at 5oclock on the morning of the 2nd September.Nelson followed Blackwood to the Admiralty, andimmediately afterwards was definitely ordered toresume his command, from which he had been absenton leave. On the 13th September he drove fromdear, dear Merton, where I left all which I hold dearin this world, and arrived at the George Inn,Portsmouth, at 6 oclock on the following morning.Southey has described the scene when he put offfrom the shore in his barge to join the Victory,The crowd

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