The Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire 1793-1812, Vol II

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Alfred Thayer Mahan

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159

Jurien de la Gravière, Revue des Deux Mondes, Oct. 1887, p. 611.

160

Correspondance de Napoléon, vol. x. pp. 79-97.

161

Nelson's Dispatches, vol. vi. p. 333.

162

After writing these words the author noted Nelson's opinion to the same effect: "Had they not been crippled, nothing could have hindered our meeting them on January 21, off the south end of Sardinia." (Dispatches, vol. vi. p. 354.)

163

For Villeneuve's opinion see Chevalier's Hist. de la Mar. Fran. sous l'Empire, p. 134; for Nelson's, Disp. vol. vi. pp. 334, 339.

164

Corr. de Nap., vol. ix. p. 701.

165

Ibid., Jan. 16, 1805.

166

Compare with Nelson's views on attacking Russian fleet, ante, p. 46.

167

Corr. de Nap., April 29, 1805, vol. x. p. 443.

168

Letter to Pitt by Robert Francis; Castlereagh's Memoirs, vol. v. p. 444. The whole letter is most suggestive, not to say prophetic. From internal indications it is extremely probable that the writer of these letters, signed Robert Francis, was Robert Fulton, though the fact is not mentioned in any of his biographies.

169

Mémoires du Duc de Raguse, vol. ii. p. 261.

170

Thiers, Cons. et Emp., vol. v. p. 413.

171

Barrow's Autobiography, p. 263.

172

Ibid. Nav. Chron., vol. xiii. p. 328.

173

The above account depends mainly upon the "Naval Chronicle" for April 15, 1805; vol. xiii. pp. 365-367,—checked by James and other sources.

174

Corr. de Nap., vol. x. p. 227.

175

So in the orders, Corr. de Nap., vol. x. p. 232. At a later date this rendezvous is spoken of by Napoleon as in the Cape de Verde. (Corr. de Nap., vol. xi. p. 50.) A singular confusion in such important orders.

176

Corr. de Nap., vol. x. p. 447.

177

Ibid., 324.

178

Nels. Disp., vol. vi. pp. 338-341.

179

Nelson's Dispatches, vol. vi. p. 397.

180

Chevalier, Mar. Fran. sous l'Empire, p. 142.

181

Nelson's Dispatches, vol. vi. pp. 410, 411, 415.

182

See ante, p. 142 (#x16_x_16_i7). Missiessy sailed from the West Indies in the same week that Villeneuve sailed for them.

183

Corr. de Nap., April 13, 1805, vol. x. p. 390.