FOOTNOTES:
[12] Parkman's "Montcalm and Wolfe," vol. ii. p. 90.
[13] Ante, p. 250.
John Jervis, Earl St. Vincent
JERVIS
1735-1823
The renown of Nelson is part of the heritage of the world. His deeds, although their full scope and real significance have been but little understood, stand out conspicuous among a host of lesser achievements, and are become to mankind the symbol of Great Britain's maritime power in that tremendous era when it drove the French Revolution back upon itself, stifling its excesses, and so insuring the survival of the beneficent tendencies which for a time seemed well nigh lost in the madness of the nation.