THE TRAFALGAR CHRONICLE Yearbook of The 1805 Club. No.15, 2005 Editorial Anthony Cross and Huw Lewis-Jones vi Chairman’s Dispatch Peter Warwick viii President’s Address Mrs Lily McCarthy CBE xi ‘The Immortal Memory’:Trafalgar Night,The Painted Hall, Greenwich 150th Anniversary, 21 October 1955 The First Sea Lord, Earl Mountbatten 1 Nelson’s Last Morning: 21 October 1805 Colin White 5 The Difficulty of Reconstructing the Battle of Trafalgar Tim Clayton 14 Vice-Admiral Villeneuve David Harris 26 Gravina and the Naval Leadership of his Day Agustín Guimerá 30 Nelson’s Avenger at Trafalgar Jack Spence 42 ‘System and Nice Combination’: Nelson the Fighting Sailor Peter Freeman 50 ‘I’ll sing of fam’d Trafalgar if you’ll listen unto me’: Nelson in Popular Song Mark Philp 65 Nelson and the Bear: The Making of an Arctic Myth Huw Lewis-Jones 82 Mary Simpson:A New Look at Nelson’s First Love John Sugden 120 Nelson and the Bronte Estate Jane Knight 133 Nelson and Agostino Millelire John R. Gwyther 145 Details of Illustrated Coloured Plates: Sir John Gray, Louis Roeder and Peter Hore 156 The Strategic and Tactical Applications of the Telegraph at Trafalgar Howard Mallinson 158 Victory in Art and the Constable Sketches Robin Brooks 173 Romantic Nelsons Rule the Waves: The Naval Hero in Literature Tim Fulford 180 Making a Victorian Nelson: Albert, Nicolas and the Arts Andrew Lambert 192 The Navy League’s Invention of Trafalgar Day Marianne Czisnik 217 ‘In spite of lip service and tall columns he is half forgotten’: A Brief Revisit to the Trafalgar Centenary Celebrations Adam Oliver 230 Not a Patch on the Original? Nelson’s Black Eye Richard Walker and Huw Lewis-Jones 239 Nelson’s Character:A Further Note Richard D. Ryder 245 Significant Dates Replay Nelson’s Traumatic Childhood Bereavement:A Note Robert Oxlade 252 The Nelson Portraits:Addendum 2005 Richard Walker 257 Book Reviews 269 Contributors’ Biographies 286 1805 Membership 290 iii
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