THE TRAFALGAR CHRONICLE Yearbook of The 1805 Club. No.18, 2008 Editorial: ‘More Fortunate Than Common Days’ – Anthony Cross and Huw Lewis-Jones vi Chairman’s Dispatch: Happy Birthday, Nelson! – Peter Warwick viii Nelson and HMSBoreas: Beyond Physical Courage – Joseph F. Callo 1 The Early Career of a Trafalgar Captain: Charles Mansfield at the Battle of Frigate Bay and the Siege of Brimstone Hill, 1782 – Tony Beales 11 ‘That very active officer, Captain Seymour’ – Tom Wareham 26 Pistols For Two, Champagne For One – Liza Verity 45 Emma’s Early Antics: The True Story of Dr James Graham and his Temple of Health– Lydia Syson 54 Further Unpublished Letters by Nelson and Emma Hamilton– Colin White 66 From Armchair to Archive: Intercepted Foreign Letters from 1804 – Jon Harrison 72 ‘Fine Colt’, ‘Cub’, or ‘Vile Spue’? – Recovering Captain Josiah Nisbet: Part II – John Sugden 80 The Brief Life of Captain Lord Robert Manners: Part II – Stephen Howarth 100 Napoleon and the Guinea Smugglers – Gavin Daly 117 Napoleon, Tilsit, Copenhagen, and Portugal – Peter Hicks 126 ‘The high raised Nelsonian star’: Turner, Nelson and the Royal Navy – J.R. Piggott 138 Treasures from the British Museum Print Collections: Nelson, the Navy and Napoleon– Sheila O’Connell 161 ‘To succeed, or perish’: Memorial of Services, Captain George Cheyne – Huw Lewis-Jones 173 Rear Admiral Thomas Fremantle and the Adriatic Campaign, 1812-14 – Charles Fremantle 193 The Use of Patronage during the War of 1812: Central versus Local Patronage Power – Tom Malcomson 203 The Royal Navy and the Rise of Modern Geophysics – Michael S. Reidy 222 ‘This ship is England’ – Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World – James Chapman 237 Admiral Collingwood: The Real Jack Aubrey? –MaxAdams 247 ‘Nautical, but Nice’: The Influence of the Lower Deck on High Fashion– Veronica Horwell 255 Life on the Square: The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography inWC2 – Philip Carter 264 Captain Hardy’s Reward of Merit Medal – Sim Comfort 272 Sons of Nelson: The Cecil Isaacson Lecture, 2008 – Peter Hore 276 Contributors’ Biographies 290 Notes for Contributors 293 iii
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