[27] Naval Chronicle, vol. xxxvii., art. "Layman."
[28] That is, from north to south. It may be well to notice that to go from the Kattegat to the Baltic is up, although from north to south.
[29] Trekroner, which was then a favorite military name in Denmark, refers to the three Crowns of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, once united.
[30] They are to be found in Nicolas's "Despatches and Letters of Lord Nelson," vol. iv. p. 304.
[31] Except numbers 4 and 5, whose stations, as has been said, were abreast the two southernmost Danes.
[32] The following is the order of the ships in the column of attack, as originally prescribed:—
1. Edgar, 74.
2. Ardent, 64.
3. Glatton, 54.
4. Isis, 50.
5. Agamemnon, 64.
6. Bellona, 74.
7. Elephant, 74.
8. Ganges, 74.
9. Monarch, 74.
10. Defiance, 74.
11. Russell, 74.
12. Polyphemus, 64.
[33] To acknowledge a signal is simply to hoist a flag, showing that it has been seen and understood. To repeat is to hoist the signal yourself, thus transmitting it as an order to those concerned.
[34] Life of Rev. Dr. A.J. Scott, p. 70
[35] Norway was then attached to the Danish Crown, as now to that of Sweden.