Nelson: The Centenary of Trafalgar
- ISBN-10
- 1473321654
- ISBN-13
- 9781473321656
- Series
- Nelson
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 22
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-11-25
- Author
- Cyprian Bridge
Description
Originally published in 1905, this is an article on one of Britain's most famous military leaders, Admiral Horatio Nelson. The following passage is taken from its introduction: 'The following article was read as an address, in compliance with the request of its Council, at the annual meeting of the Navy Records Society in July 1905. It was, and indeed is still, my opinion, as stated to the meeting in some prefatory remarks, that the address would have come better from a professed historian, several members of the Society being well known as entitled to that designation. The Council, however, considered that, as Nelson's tactical principles and achievements should be dealt with, it would be better for the address to be delivered by a naval officer - one, moreover, who had personal experience of the manoeuvres of fleets under sail. Space would not suffice for treating of Nelson's merits as a strategist, though they are as great as those which he possessed as a tactician.
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