[9] Nelson’s successor and friend.
[10] Sir Richard Bickerton (1727–92) sailed from England with a convoy on the 6th February 1782. He took part in an indecisive engagement with Suffrein, off Pondicherry, on the 20th June 1783. Not more than two-thirds of the British crews were effective owing to scurvy.
[11] In his Autobiography Nelson gives the number as three.
[12] More detailed particulars of this thrilling siege will be found in the author’s companion volume, “The Story of Napoleon,” pp. 60–64.
[13] See ante, page 43.
[14] Captain Benjamin Hallowell (1760–1834). He afterwards assumed the name of Carew, and became a Vice-Admiral in 1819.
[15] “The Royal Navy,” by Wm. Laird Clowes, vol. iv., p. 153, vol. v., pp. 9–10.
[16] “The Navy League Annual, 1910–11,” p. 226.
[17] Parsons gives Nelson the title which he had not then won. See post, p. 85.
[18] “Larboard” has now been superseded by “port,” i.e. the left.