LIFE OF NELSON

EDITED

WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES

BY

ALBERT F. BLAISDELL

BOSTON, U.S.A., AND LONDON
PUBLISHED BY GINN & COMPANY

1897

EducT881.860.425

Harvard University,
Dept. of Education Library

TRANSFERRED TO

MARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

1932

COPYRIGHT, 1896
By GINN & COMPANY

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Nelson's Birth and Boyhood— He is entered on Board the Raisonnable —

Goes to the West Indies in a Merchant-ship — His Dislike to the Royal Navy

Serves in the Triumph - Sails in Captain Phipps' Voyage of Discovery to

Adventures in the Polar Regions - Proceeds to the East

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the North Pole

Indies in the Seahorse

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Reaction of Feeling

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Returns in Ill Health Consequent Despondency

Serves as Acting-Lieutenant in the Worcester, and is

made Lieutenant into the Lowestoffe, Commander into the Badger Brig, and

Post into the Hinchinbrook Expedition against the Spanish Main

appointed to the Janus, but

Failure

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He

Injury to Nelson's Health

obliged to resign the Command

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Its

Returns to England He is sent to the

Baltic Sea in the Albemarle - His Services during the American War.

CHAPTER II. 1784-1792

IN THE WEST INDIES.

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- His

Meets with

Nelson is rcappointed to the Boreas Goes to the West Indies

Kindness to his Midshipmen Enforces the Navigation Act

Opposition from the West Indians Seizes four American Vessels - Is

prosecuted by the Captains Marries the Widow of Dr. Nisbet - Exposes

the Conduct of the Navy Contractors Returns to England His Reception

- Is on the Point of quitting the Service in Disgust — His Manner of Life

while at Home Is threatened with a New Prosecution Applies for Active

Appointed to the Agamemnon on the breaking out of the War

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