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HORATIO, VISCOUNT NELSON (1758-1805)
Letter signed ('Nelson & Bronte') to Rear Admiral Sir Richard Bickerton 'or in his absence rear Admiral Knight at Gibraltar', 'Victory at Sea the 17th June 1805', one page, folio, integral blank leaf, contemporary dockets on verso (small split in central horizontal fold, not touching text).
Provenance: Sir Richard Bickerton, and by descent to the present owner.
ORDERS TO WATCH FOR THE FRENCH FLEET AS NELSON RETURNS FROM HIS PURSUIT OF THE ENEMY TO THE WEST INDIES AND BACK. 'As I think the Enemy's fleet is bound either to Cadiz or Toulon, I would have every Vessel which can be spared from other important services placed at the mouth of the Streights and toward Cadiz and Cape St Vincent, in order to give me notice of the Enemy's fleet'. '[A] good lookout at Tangier' is also needed to prevent the enemy getting unobserved into the Mediterranean. Bickerton's annotation reads 'Lord Nelson's order to place small vessels in the mouth of the Gutt etc'.
Two days after the present letter Nelson reckoned that he was only 240 miles behind the French. It had still not been sighted when a month later he passed Cape Spartel. The French purpose in luring the British to the West Indies had not yet become clear, but Villeneuve had received orders earlier in June to return to Ferrol and to join Admiral Ganteaume at Brest in readiness for the invasion of England.
Sir Richard Bickerton (1759-1832) was commander-in-chief of the Mediterranean fleet in 1802-1803 and on the renewal of the war with France became Nelson's second-in-command, serving under him until the summer of 1805 when he returned to the Admiralty in London before Trafalgar.
Letter signed ('Nelson & Bronte') to Rear Admiral Sir Richard Bickerton 'or in his absence rear Admiral Knight at Gibraltar', 'Victory at Sea the 17th June 1805', one page, folio, integral blank leaf, contemporary dockets on verso (small split in central horizontal fold, not touching text).
Provenance: Sir Richard Bickerton, and by descent to the present owner.
ORDERS TO WATCH FOR THE FRENCH FLEET AS NELSON RETURNS FROM HIS PURSUIT OF THE ENEMY TO THE WEST INDIES AND BACK. 'As I think the Enemy's fleet is bound either to Cadiz or Toulon, I would have every Vessel which can be spared from other important services placed at the mouth of the Streights and toward Cadiz and Cape St Vincent, in order to give me notice of the Enemy's fleet'. '[A] good lookout at Tangier' is also needed to prevent the enemy getting unobserved into the Mediterranean. Bickerton's annotation reads 'Lord Nelson's order to place small vessels in the mouth of the Gutt etc'.
Two days after the present letter Nelson reckoned that he was only 240 miles behind the French. It had still not been sighted when a month later he passed Cape Spartel. The French purpose in luring the British to the West Indies had not yet become clear, but Villeneuve had received orders earlier in June to return to Ferrol and to join Admiral Ganteaume at Brest in readiness for the invasion of England.
Sir Richard Bickerton (1759-1832) was commander-in-chief of the Mediterranean fleet in 1802-1803 and on the renewal of the war with France became Nelson's second-in-command, serving under him until the summer of 1805 when he returned to the Admiralty in London before Trafalgar.
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