In Nelson's Wake by James Davey

Author:James Davey
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780300200652
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2017-08-18T04:00:00+00:00

* For all his wealth, Rainier was generous with it. In a noble act of largesse, he bequeathed a tenth of his estate to reducing the national debt. Naval Chronicle, vol. 10, p. 382; Parkinson, Eastern Seas, p. 203.

* The force available to Pellew amounted to six sail of the line, the 50-gun Grampus, ten frigates and a number of sloops, a cutter and a hulk. See Parkinson, Eastern Seas, p. 262.

* Nine were stationed to the eastward (Batavia, Penang and Sumatra), eight in the Bay of Bengal, and eleven at or near Bombay for cruising and convoy protection. See Parkinson, Eastern Seas, p. 300.

* In July 1810 he had gained a rather gruesome appearance, and the nickname ‘the Immortal’, after a musket had accidentally burst in his face. See Taylor, Storm and Conquest, p. 284.

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