By Mr and Mrs William Platt. With 16 full-page Illustrations by M. Meredith Williams.


The “Belleisle” went into action at Trafalgar with the words “Victory or Death” chalked on her guns

Frank Craig, from a sketch by C. W. Cole

Fr.

THE BOYS’
NELSON

BY
Harold F. B. Wheeler F.R.Hist.S.

MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
JOINT-AUTHOR OF
‘NAPOLEON AND THE INVASION OF ENGLAND’ AND
‘THE WAR IN WEXFORD 1798’
AUTHOR OF
‘THE MIND OF NAPOLEON’ ‘THE BOYS’ NAPOLEON’ AND
‘THE MAXIMS OF NAPOLEON’

He is the only man who has ever lived
who, by universal consent, is without a peer

ADMIRAL SIR CYPRIAN BRIDGE G.C.B.