Marines have done, and how they will continue to provide for the nation’s security, if suitably funded. These features furnish the Club’s charitable objects with a crucial and relevant meaning. To help promote this ethos, The 1805 Club organised a major three-day birthday celebration in Norfolk between 26-28 September, including a civic dinner at King’s Lynn and a Service of Thanksgiving, led by the Dean of Norwich Cathedral, at All Saints’ Church, Burnham Thorpe. Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope KCB OBE, Commanderin-Chief-Fleet, represented the Royal Navy. The Club also created the NELSON 250 logo, which has been made freely available to all bodies and organisations wishing to join a ‘national’ celebration of Nelson’s birthday. We believed that the more it was used, the more likely it was that the anniversary would have an impact on the wider consciousness of the country. As a further way of marking the anniversary, The 1805 Club organised two naval historical conferences in 2008, The Anson Watershed and The Collingwood Years: Naval Strategy against Napoléon 1806-1810. This ambitious programme reflected the Club’s commitment to stimulating research into the Georgian sailing navy as a whole. Nor have these activities diminished its enthusiastic participation in The Nelson Legacy Conference Series, which is preparing for its second conference, appropriately about naval power projection, in September 2009. These special occasions have all been part of a very busy events calendar this year, including national as well as informal events organised by the Club’s burgeoning ‘regional groups’ in the South East, South West and North East. Highlights included the exceptional reception at Windsor Castle in the presence of His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh KG KT celebrating the delivery of the news of the Battle of Trafalgar by Post-chaise to His Majesty King George III on 6 November 1806; the x Birthday card for Admiral Nelson in his 250th year. Year 5 pupil, Clare House Primary School, Bromley, Kent, Courtesy Susan Amos.
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