Trafalgar by Nicholas Best

Author:Nicholas Best [Best, Nicholas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 1059630451
Publisher: Thistle Publishing
Published: 2018-10-09T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 28

NELSON’S MEMORANDUM

The Spanish were right about the weather. It deteriorated sharply on 10 October and remained intermittently bad for another week. There was no chance of the fleet putting to sea for the time being. All they could do was sit at anchor and wait.

Outside the harbour, Nelson continued his preparations for their reception. His own force was not yet fully assembled because new ships were arriving every day. They came in ones and twos, rather than a great forest of sails, so that the French lookouts would notice nothing untoward. Nelson did not have as many ships as Villeneuve imagined. He was only too aware that the odds would be stacked against him when the French did finally come out to fight. On 8 October, he calculated that:

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