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

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234

Ibid., August 13.

235

Napoleon to Villeneuve, August 13.

236

Napoleon to Decrès, August 14.

237

Twenty-nine only of the line.

238

Chevalier, Marine Française sous l'Empire, p. 180.

239

Collingwood's Correspondence, August 21, 1805.

240

Thiers, Cons. et Emp., livre xxii. pp. 125, 128.

241

Thiers, Cons. et Emp., livre xxviii. p. 233.

242

Napoleon to St. Cyr, Sept. 2, 1805.

243

Napoleon to Decrès, Sept. 15.

244

Ibid., Sept. 4.

245

Nels. Disp., vol. vii. p. 80.

246

Fyffe's History of Modern Europe, vol. i. p. 281.

247

To the King of Wurtemburg, April 2, 1811; Corr., vol. xxii. p. 19.

248

Life of Sir Wm. Parker, vol. i. p. 39. Ross's Life of Lord de Saumarez, vol. ii. p. 214. Naval Chronicle, Plymouth Report, Dec. 10, 1800.

249

Message of Directory to Council of Five Hundred, Jan., 1799; Moniteur, An 7, p. 482.

250

McArthur, Financial and Political Facts of the Eighteenth Century, London, 1801, p. 308. Norman (Corsairs of France, London, 1887, App.) gives the number of French privateers taken in the same period as 556.

251

Sir J. Barrow, then a Secretary to the Admiralty, mentions in a letter to J. W. Croker, July 18, 1810, that two colliers had been captured in sight of Ramsgate, close under the North Foreland; and on July 27 an ordnance hoy taken close under Galloper Light, in the face of the whole squadron in the Downs, not one of which moved. (Croker's Diary, vol. i. p. 33)

252

Naval Chronicle, vol. xxiv. p. 327. For further curious particulars concerning French privateering in the narrow seas, see Nav. Chron., vol. xxii. p. 279; vol. xxiv. pp. 327, 448, 460-462, 490; vol. xxv. pp. 32-34, 44, 203, 293; vol. xxvii. pp. 102, 237.

253

See, for example, the account of the privateer captain, Jean Blackeman Nav. Chron., vol. xii. p. 454.

254

Naval Chronicle, vol. ii. p. 535; vol. iii. p. 151.

255

In 1806, on the Jamaica station alone, were captured by the British forty-eight public or private armed vessels, two of which were frigates, the rest small. (Nav. Chron., vol. xvii. pp. 255, 337.)

256

American State Papers, vol. ii. pp. 670, 771.

257

James (Naval Hist., ed. 1878, vol. iii. p. 249) says that though denominated 1,200-ton ships, the registered tonnage of most exceeds 1,300, and in some cases amounts to 1,500 tons.

258

Nav. Chronicle, vol. vi. p. 251.
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