THE TRAFALGAR CHRONICLE Yearbook of The 1805 Club. No.19, 2009 Editorial – Anthony Cross and Huw Lewis-Jones vi The Chairman’s Dispatch: Victory, Remembrance, and Daring – Peter Warwick viii In Search of Nelson’s Spy: A Research Case Study – Justin Reay 1 The Battle of Santa Cruz: A Critical Transition– Joseph F. Callo 16 British Blockades in the Great Wars, 1793-1815 – N.A.M. Rodger 27 Terror in the Countryside: HM Schooner Whiting in Southern Nova Scotia in 1805 – Keith Mercer 38 The Black Book– Terry Coleman 54 Reasons for Going North: John Franklin, Nelson and Post-War Promotion– Andrew Lambert 66 ‘Nelsons of Discovery’: Notes on the Franklin Monument in Greenwich– Huw Lewis-Jones 78 ‘The Brave, Rough, English Admiral…’: Sir Cloudesley Shovell and his Monument by Grinling Gibbons in Westminster Abbey, 1708 – Justin Reay 106 Why Didn’t John Bull Volunteer? – Tamara L. Hunt and Scott Hughes Myerly 118 Treasures from the British Museum Print Collections: Rule Britannia, The Development of an Icon, 1770-1820 – Jennifer Bodie 129 ‘Too Sublime for our Comprehension’: William Blake’s Nelson, Reconsidered– Huw Lewis-Jones 148 The Making of a Hero: Captain Cook’s Last Voyage – Glyn Williams 162 ‘The Idle Apprentice Sent to Sea’: Sailors and Urban Youth Culture in the Eighteenth Century – Roland Pietsch 174 Why did Captain Robert FitzRoy really take command of HMSBeagle? – James Taylor 190 Cochrane and the Battle of Basque Roads – David Cordingly 201 ‘A Local Remedy to a Local Grievance’: British Countermeasures against Spanish Privateering, 1822-23 – Matthew McCarthy 215 ‘Intrepidity and Perseverance’: Searching for HMSWager in the Gulf of Pain– Chris Holt 227 Cut text The Navy on Silver: Early Photographic Images of the Royal Navy – William J. Schultz 241 Alfred John West and the Trafalgar Centenary – David Clover 266 ‘The Greatest Reserve of the Imagination’: The Naval Theatre in the Age of Empire – Jan Rüger 283 Riot and Rap: The Cecil Isaacson Lecture, 2009 – AnnCoats 296 Contributors’ Biographies 314 Notes for Contributors 317 iii
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