The Story Of Nelson

About this eBook

Author

Wheeler, Harold, 1877-

Title

The Boys' Nelson

Credits

Produced by Shaun Pinder, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

DA: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Great Britain, Ireland, Central Europe

Subject

Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount, 1758-1805

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 50731

Release Date

December 20, 2015

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE STORY OF NELSON
2. 2.THE BOYS’ NELSON
3. 3.Foreword
4. 4.Contents
5. 5.Illustrations
6. 6.Chapter I—Boyhood and First Years at Sea (1758–1773)
7. 7.CHAPTER II A Hero in the Making (1773–1783)
8. 8.CHAPTER III Pleasure in France and Work in the West Indies (1783–1793)
9. 9.CHAPTER IV The Beginning of the Great War (1793–1794)
10. 10.CHAPTER V “I wish to be an Admiral” (1795–96)
11. 11.CHAPTER VI Nelson’s First Great Fight: The Battle of Cape St Vincent (1797)
12. 12.CHAPTER VII From Triumph to Failure: The Attempt on Santa Cruz (1797)
13. 13.CHAPTER VIII In Chase of the French Fleet (1798)
14. 14.CHAPTER IX The Battle of the Nile 1798
15. 15.CHAPTER X The Neapolitan Court and Lady Hamilton
16. 16.CHAPTER XI The Neapolitan Rebels and their French Allies (1799)
17. 17.CHAPTER XII Nelson in Temporary Command (1799–1800)
18. 18.CHAPTER XIII Disobedience to Orders
19. 19.CHAPTER XIV The Campaign of the Baltic (1800–1)
20. 20.CHAPTER XV The Battle of Copenhagen (1801)
21. 21.CHAPTER XVI The Threatened Invasion of England (1801)
22. 22.CHAPTER XVII The Vigil off Toulon (1803)
23. 23.CHAPTER XVIII Twelve weary Months in the Mediterranean (1804)
24. 24.CHAPTER XIX The Crisis (1805)
25. 25.CHAPTER XX Nelson’s Last Command (1805)
26. 26.CHAPTER XXI The Rout in Trafalgar Bay (1805)
27. 27.Index of Proper Names
28. 28.FOOTNOTES
29. 29.Transcriber’s Notes

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