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HORATIO, VISCOUNT NELSON (1758-1805)

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HORATIO, VISCOUNT NELSON (1758-1805)
A 2-page autograph letter, signed: "Nelson & Bronte," to Captain Richard Thomas, from the: "Aetna, Victory," 19 January 1805, giving urgent news: "The French fleet put to sea yesterday and were seen last night at twelve o'clock steering South or SW then supposed in the Latitude of Adjaccio going ten or eleven miles per hour;" announcing his intention of trying to intercept them, and ordering Thomas, if he hears nothing in a few days, to take the transports to Malta and endeavour to join him: "wherever you may hear I may be" (splitting in folds, repaired).

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Nelson, who had received letters on Christmas Day giving him permission to go home, reconnoitred Toulon, and moved on to Maddalena where he received the long-awaited signal that Villeneuve had put to sea. He did not learn for a month that the sortie had proved abortive as the French fleet, damaged by storm, had limped back into Toulon, while his own ships were prevented by the weather from advancing to block the Straits.