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Notes
     
     
    INTRODUCTION
     
    1 The Articles of War, 1749, second article
    2 Lukacs, The Hitler of History: Hitler’s Biographers on Trial , p. 73. Genius is, of course, a value-free concept. Hitler was undoubtedly one, as was Napoleon.
    3 Howard, M., The Causes of  Wars , 1983, p. 215–16.
    4 Clausewitz, C. von, On War , ed. P. Paret and M. Howard, Princeton, 1976, p.  87.
    5 Cookson, The British Armed Nation, 1793–1815, pp. 38–95
    6 de la Gravière, J, Sketches of the Late Naval War , 2 vols., trans. Captain Plunkett, 1848, provides a clear-eyed assessment of the issues.
    7 Rodger, ‘Image and Reality in Eighteenth Century Naval Tactics’
    8 This system opened a Pandora’s box of problems for admirals who wanted to micromanage their fleets. See Gordon, The Rules of the Game: Jutland and British Naval Command for a powerful study of the problems this would cause between Trafalgar and Jutland in 1916.
    9 Collingwood to Alexander Carlyle 24.8.1801; Hughes, ed. The Private Correspondence of Admiral Lord Collingwood , p. 130
    10 Collingwood to Admiral Pasley 16.12.1805; Nicolas VII p. 241
    11 Heuser, Reading Clausewitz , pp. 72–3
CHAPTER I
     
    1 For details of this, and every other ship on which Nelson served, with a wealth of period detail and operational history, see Goodwin, Nelson’s Ships: A History of the Vessels in which he Served, 1771 – 1805
    2 Goodwin, p. 3 5
    3 Nelson to Cornwallis 1790; Manuscripts of Cornwallis Wykeham Martin , pp. 341–2
    4 Clarke and McArthur (1840) [hereafter C&M] I p. 24
    5 C&M I p. 14.
    6Nicolas I pp. 21–2
    7 Vincent, Nelson, Love and Fame , p. 3 3
    8 McNairn, A., Behold the Hero: General Wolfe and the Arts in the 18th Century. Liverpool, 1997
    9 Pocock, Young Nelson in the Americas , offers a comprehensive and rewarding study of this episode.
    10 Lambert, ‘Sir William Cornwallis’, in LeFevre and Harding, Precursors of Nelson
    11 Mahan p. 27, Oman, p. 40 and Warner p. 38, attribute it to his merit. Southey, Laughton and Vincent pp. 42–3 simply accept the appointment.

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