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The Life of Nelson, Vol. II. (of 2)

CHAPTER XVI
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442-444.
[25] Pitt had resigned from office since then.
[26] Naval Chronicle, vol.xxxvii.p.

446.
[27] Naval Chronicle, vol.xxxvii., art.

"Layman." [28] That is, from north to south.

It may be well to notice that to go from the Kattegat to the Baltic is _up_, although from north to south.
[29] Trekroner, which was then a favorite military name in Denmark, refers to the three Crowns of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, once united.
[30] They are to be found in Nicolas's "Despatches and Letters of Lord Nelson," vol.iv.p.

304.
[31] Except numbers 4 and 5, whose stations, as has been said, were abreast the two southernmost Danes.
[32] The following is the order of the ships in the column of attack, as originally prescribed:-- 1.


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