...this makes me ! but I cannot help myself." The next day he anchored at Gibraltar; and on the 2oth, says he, " I went on shore for the first time since...out of the Victory, two years, wanting ten days." Here he communicated with his old friend Collingwood, who, having been detached with a squadron, when...

...anchored in Gibraltar Bay, and on the 2oth he went on shore " for the first time since the i6th of June, 1803 ; and from having my foot out of the Victory, two years, wanting ten days."1 A month afterwards he joined Admiral Cornwallis off Ushant, and detaching the Victory and Superb,...

...20 there is this entry in the admiral's book : " I went on shore for the first time since June 16, 1803, and from having my foot out of the Victory two years wanting two days." The chase that commenced on May 11 ended on October 21 off Cape Trafalgar, where the great...

...French fleet, nor any information about them. How sorrowful this makes me ! but I cannot help myself." The next day he anchored at Gibraltar, and on the...my foot out of the Victory, two years, wanting ten days."1 Here he communicated with his old friend Collingwood, who, having been detached with a squadron,...

...say. On July 19th the fleet anchored at Gibraltar, and on the 20th Nelson noted in his diary that he went on shore for the first time since June 16th, 1803; and that he had not set foot out of the Victory for two years all but ten days. Meanwhile the Curieux,...

...20 there is this entry in the admiral's book : " I went on shore for the first time since June 16, 1803, and from having my foot out of the Victory two years wanting two days." The chase that commenced on May II ended on October 21 off" Cape Trafalgar, where the great...

...again in his private diary on the 20th: "I went on shore for the first time since the 16th of June, 1803; and from having my foot out of the Victory, two years wanting ten days." In a letter to Barham he said: "I have yet not a word of information of the enemy's fleet; it has almost...

...As he noted in his private journal, "... I went on shore for the first time since the 16th of June 1803 and from having my foot out of the Victory, two years wanting ten days.' Graves, Sir Thomas (1747-1814) 133 He did, however, return one more time in October 1805, this time...

...Nelson pursued, and on the 19th June anchored at Gibraltar. The next day, he remarks in his diary, " I went on shore for the first time since June 16th,...foot out of the Victory two years wanting ten days ; " in fact, from May 1803 to August 1805 he quitted his ship but three times, each time upon the king's...