THE TRAFALGAR CHRONICLE Yearbook of The 1805 Club. No.17, 2007 Editorial Anthony Cross and Huw Lewis-Jones vi The Chairman’s Dispatch Peter Warwick x Address to the Veteran Seamen Charles Valentine Le Grice 1 Pour Encourager Les Autres Chris Ware 5 ‘By the Laws of this Realm’: Legal Precedents, Discretion, and Courts-Martial in the Royal Navy, 1746-1805 Martin Hubley 16 ‘Fine Colt’, ‘Cub’, or ‘Vile Spue’?: Recovering Captain Josiah Nisbet – Part I John Sugden 31 ‘A Harsh, But Necessary, Apprenticeship’: New French Accounts and a Previously Unknown Sketch of the Battle of Trafalgar Peter Hicks 42 Robert Mylne, Matthew Boulton, and the Treasure in Nelson’s Tomb Robert Ward 53 After Nelson…Viva Collingwood! Max Adams 62 ‘To Render an Effectual Service’: Collingwood’s ‘Star Captains’ on the Coast of Catalonia Justin Reay 71 The Royal Navy and Malaria, 1756-1815 M. John Cardwell 84 Twopence Coloured Hero: Nelson Treads the Boards Horatio Blood 99 Tar Triumphant; or, Thomas Potter Cooke and Nautical Melodrama Huw Lewis-Jones 118 Invasion Threats and the Poetic Imagining of the Nation Simon Bainbridge 146 William Wordsworth’s Nelson Revisited: ‘Character of the Happy Warrior’ and Benjamin the Waggoner John Williams 161 Trafalgar Old Boys:A Graphic Portrait Huw Lewis-Jones 182 Getting to Know Napoleon:The Beginning of a British Obsession Christopher Woodward 193 Patriotism and Popular Identities: Nelson Revived, 1885-1914 Andrew Lambert 212 The Film Star of Trafalgar: Nelsonian Imagery and Allusion in Naval Film Jonathan Rayner 231 John Paul Jones (1747-1792): More than a Man for his Time Joseph F. Callo 243 The Brief Life of Captain Lord Robert Manners, RN: Part I – A Pride of Peacocks, 1758-1780 Stephen Howarth 255 From the Tower at Longon Sardo: Correspondence between Lieutenant Magnon, Dr. Alexander Scott, and Lord Nelson – Part II John R. Gwyther 268 Wilberforce and Clarkson: Fighting the Slave Trade in Parliament and on the Road Jonathan Harrison 284 Nelson on Wilberforce and Slavery Editors’ Note 296 Contributors’ Biographies 299 Notes for Contributors 303 iii
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