Transcriber’s Notes
Except as described under Changes below, this e-text uses the language used in the source document. Inconsistent spelling, capitalisation, spacing and hyphenation, unusual, obsolete and archaic language, etc. have been retained, also in proper, geographical and ships’ names. Accents have not been added or corrected. Differences in wording between the Lists of Illustrations and the captions in the text have not been rectified.
Chapter numbering: in the first book chapters are numbered I through XV (which has been corrected to XIV) in the Table of Contents, and I through XIV in the text. The remainder of the chapters (including those in the second book) are not numbered. This oddity has been retained in this e-text.
Page numbering: this e-text uses prefixes I and II in the page numbers for the first and second book.
Page I-203: But they ‘(the French)’ having covered ...: as printed in the source document; possibly an error for But they” (the French) “having covered ....
Page I-237, ... than deserving gentlemen sent out by the Admiralty.”: either the closing quote mark is redundant, or the opening quote mark is missing.
Page I-358, “Villeneuve, like others, ...: the closing quote mark is missing.
Page II-62, “It was also asserted that the Guerrière’s powder was bad; ...: the closing quote mark is missing.
Page II-251, “The Richmond waved to me ...: the closing quote mark is missing.
Page II-397, Abbreviations: the abbreviations referring to the engines do not occur in the table(s).
Page II-429, ... “though he must have been aware ...: the closing quote mark is missing.
Changes
Illustrations have been moved out of text paragraphs.
Some obvious minor typographical and punctuation errors have been corrected silently.
Soleil Royale has been corrected to Soleil Royal throughtout the book.
Page I-VI: ... the Carthaginians at Myloe ... has been changed to ... the Carthaginians at Mylœ ... as in the text.
Page I-XI: XV. DE GRASSE AND RODNEY. A. D. 1782 has been changed to XIV. DE GRASSE AND RODNEY. A. D. 1782.
Page I-XV: Disputes over Corea has been changed to Disputes over Korea as in text.
Page I-XVII: page number 226 has been changed to 195 (Le Soleil Royal); entry 21a Dutch Man-of-War, 17th Century. inserted.
Page I-72: ... too unwieldly to be brought up again has been changed to ... too unwieldy to be brought up again.
Page I-265: ... the Genereux and Timoléon ... has been changed to ... the Généreux and Timoléon ... as elsewhere.
Page I-270: a superfluous page reference has been deleted from caption NELSON WOUNDED AT TENERIFFE.
Page I-353: closing quote mark has been added after All is mine, right or wrong.
Page I-355: closing quote mark has been inserted after ... to continue them there until the business is decided), ....
Page I-393: Opening quote mark has been inserted before When once he had explained his system ....
Page I-463: ... but when the inflexible and the Téméraire ... has been changed to ... but when the ... Inflexible and the Téméraire ....
Page II-XI, List of illustrations: entries 18 and 19 have been inserted.
Page II-XI, List of Illustrations: items 31 (American Fleet) and 32 (Manila Bay Map) were interchanged according to their position in the book.
Page II-62: closing quote mark has been inserted after The Guerrière, moreover, was out-manœuvred.
Page II-227: closing quote mark has been inserted after ... your thundering bad navigation.
Page II-235: closing quote mark has been inserted after D. G. F.
Page II-270: opening quote mark inserted before Completely exhausted, I managed to reach the shore, ....
Page II-344: The lastest completed battle-ships ... has been changed to The latest completed battle-ships ....
Page II-388: closing quote mark has been inserted after This was altered and other changes made.
Page II-395, table row Foote, column Officers: 44 has been changed to 4.
Page II-393-397: the pages have been re-arranged to form complete tables; the page numbering as used in the book has been preserved. Page 394: decimal commas in the column Speed have been replaced with decimal points for consistency with the remainder of the table. The data have been aligned more consistently for better readability.