[The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson by Robert Southey]@TWC D-Link bookThe Life of Horatio Lord Nelson CHAPTER IX 20/46
He wore a miniature of her, also, next his heart. Blackwood went on board the VICTORY about six.
He found him in good spirits, but very calm; not in that exhilaration which he had felt upon entering into battle at Aboukir and Copenhagen: he knew that his own life would be particularly aimed at, and seems to have looked for death with almost as sure an expectation as for victory.
His whole attention was fixed upon the enemy.
They tacked to the northward, and formed their line on the larboard tack; thus bringing the shoals of Trafalgar and St. Pedro under the lee of the British, and keeping the port of Cadiz open for themselves.
This was judiciously done; and Nelson, aware of all the advantages which it gave them made signal to prepare to anchor. Villeneuve was a skilful seaman: worthy of serving a better master, and a better cause.
<<Back Index Next>> D-Link book Top TWC mobile books
|