THE STORY
OF NELSON
The “Belleisle” went into action at Trafalgar with the words    “Victory or Death” chalked on her guns
Frank Craig, from a sketch by C. W. Cole
Fr.
THE BOYS’
NELSON
BY
Harold F. B. Wheeler F.R.Hist.S.
MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
JOINT-AUTHOR OF
‘NAPOLEON AND THE INVASION OF ENGLAND’ AND
‘THE WAR IN WEXFORD 1798’
AUTHOR OF
‘THE MIND OF NAPOLEON’ ‘THE BOYS’ NAPOLEON’ AND
‘THE MAXIMS OF NAPOLEON’
‘He is the only man who has ever lived
who, by universal consent, is without a peer’
ADMIRAL SIR CYPRIAN BRIDGE G.C.B.
NEW YORK
THOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
Printed by Turnbull & Spears, Edinburgh
DEDICATED TO
MY FATHER AND MOTHER
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Foreword
The career of the little one-eyed, one-armedman who frustrated Napoleon’s ambitiousmaritime plans for the subjugation of England,who is to sailors what Napoleon is to soldiers, whorepresented in his person all that sea power meantwhen the very existence of our forefathers was threatenedin the latter days of the eighteenth century and thefirst half-decade of its successor, must ever appeal tothose for whom Great Britain means something morethan a splash of red on a coloured map.
I do not wish to suggest that his fame is insular.On the contrary, it is universal. Other lands andother peoples share in our admiration of him. Wemust not forget that it was an American naval officer,Admiral Mahan, who first gave us a really great bookabout this truly great man. In his “Life of Nelson,”we have the hero’s career reviewed by an expert whoseknowledge of tactics has not blinded him to the moreromantic aspects of Nelso                        
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