[126] The author has introduced an arrow to show the direction of the wind as viewed by Nelson; the arrow flying with the wind.
[127] Formerly Mr. Addington, who was at the head of the Government during the Copenhagen expedition.
[128] This was a mistake on Nelson's part. Rodney's fleet actually, though accidentally, broke through De Grasse's order in two (if not three) places.
[129] A desert group of small islands between Madeira and the Canaries.
[130] The author is indebted for this reminiscence to Mr. Stuart J. Reid, who received it from Pasco's son, also an officer in the Navy.
[131] Besides three of the battles associated with Nelson's name—St. Vincent, the Nile, and Trafalgar—Berry as a midshipman had been in the five fleet actions between Suffren and Hughes, in the East Indies, in 1782 and 1783. ("The Nelson Memorial," by John Knox Laughton, pp. 83, 284.)
CHAPTER XXIII.
TRAFALGAR.—THE DEATH OF NELSON.
OCTOBER 19-21, 1805. AGE, 47.