![NELSON, Horatio, Viscount (1758-1805). Autograph letter signed ('Nelson & Bronte') to Sir Richard Bickerton, Victory [off Gibraltar], 21 July 1805, half page, 4to, integral blank leaf (two tiny holes in central fold of 2nd leaf). Provenance: Sir Richard Bickerton, and by descent to the present owner.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2006/CKS/2006_CKS_07275_0064_000(010411).jpg?w=1)
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NELSON, Horatio, Viscount (1758-1805). Autograph letter signed ('Nelson & Bronte') to Sir Richard Bickerton, Victory [off Gibraltar], 21 July 1805, half page, 4to, integral blank leaf (two tiny holes in central fold of 2nd leaf). Provenance: Sir Richard Bickerton, and by descent to the present owner.
BACK FROM THE PURSUIT OF THE COMBINED FRENCH AND SPANISH FLEETS TO THE WEST INDIES: 'If the orders of the Admiralty force you to remain off Carthagena with all your Squadron and that the Queen cannot be spared from that service then I must desire (for I am ignorant of what orders the Admiralty have given since my departure) that you will proceed and join me in the Amphion calling at Gibraltar for any orders I may have left with either Ad[mira]l Knight or the Commissioner'. Bickerton is to despatch a ship with his letters for Naples, Sicily and Malta for 'it is of the greatest consequence that they should be acquainted ... with my return into the Mediterranean'.
Nelson anchored at Gibraltar on 19 July, setting foot on land for the first time in almost two years and after chasing the enemy fleets for 6,668 miles. Admiral Villeneuve had at the same time arrived off Cape Ferrol, in order to join Admiral Ganteaume at Brest for the planned invasion of England.
BACK FROM THE PURSUIT OF THE COMBINED FRENCH AND SPANISH FLEETS TO THE WEST INDIES: 'If the orders of the Admiralty force you to remain off Carthagena with all your Squadron and that the Queen cannot be spared from that service then I must desire (for I am ignorant of what orders the Admiralty have given since my departure) that you will proceed and join me in the Amphion calling at Gibraltar for any orders I may have left with either Ad[mira]l Knight or the Commissioner'. Bickerton is to despatch a ship with his letters for Naples, Sicily and Malta for 'it is of the greatest consequence that they should be acquainted ... with my return into the Mediterranean'.
Nelson anchored at Gibraltar on 19 July, setting foot on land for the first time in almost two years and after chasing the enemy fleets for 6,668 miles. Admiral Villeneuve had at the same time arrived off Cape Ferrol, in order to join Admiral Ganteaume at Brest for the planned invasion of England.
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