Men of Honour (38 page)

humanity:

Bayntun's 135

definition of 239

18th Century understanding of 250-1

heroic 267

Nelson's 153, 239, 241-2, 243, 303

of British officers 137-8

of Nelson's death 251-3

Trafalgar, presence at 239, 241, 249-50, 258-9, 288, 293-7

Trafalgar, presence after the battle of 251, 258, 262-3, 264, 288-9, 297, 303, 309, 310, 310-11

violence turning into 258

Hume, David 124

Hurd, Richard 124

Hutton, William 250

Iliad
206

Inconstant
101, 104

Indomptable
225, 305

Infernet, Captain Louis Antoine Cyprian 277, 278, 279, 280, 282, 283, 284, 285, 286

Inquiry into the Cause of the Late Increase in Robbers
(Fielding) 170

Intrépide
277, 278-9, 280, 281-2, 283, 284, 287, 310

Ireland 80

Jervis, Sir John 183, 185

Johnson, Dr Samuel 38, 68, 130, 168, 209, 275

Keats, Captain 191, 195, 200

Keith, Admiral 75

King Lear
(Shakespeare) 314

Knight of the Bath 276

Knight, Rear-Admiral John 67, 84, 88

Knights of Malta 28, 29

L'Orient 61

Lawrence, Sit Thomas 172

Leech, Samuel 210-14, 216, 226

Leviathan
51, 52, 86, 87, 130-1, 135, 136, 228, 268, 279, 280, 301, 304, 309, 310

line of battle 175-8

Livy 285

Lloyds 122, 276

Locke, John 157

London
55

Louis XVI, King 17-18

Louis, Rear-Admiral Thomas 119, 120

love:

battle and glory, connection with 149, 150-1

class distinctions within British Navy block flow of 147

definition of 130

18th Century views of 149-50

Nelson's sense of 118, 125, 149, 151, 171, 184, 187-8
see also
Hamilton, Emma

Trafalgar, presence in British fleet on morning of 148-9, 155

tyrant captains ruin sense of 152-3

Lucas, Captain 247, 258, 259-60

Lucas, Jean-Jacques 246

Lyrical Ballads
(Wordsworth) 52, 193

Lyttelton, Lord 115

Magnificent
175

Magon, Admiral 257, 258

Malta 84, 130

Mangin, Reverend Edward 140-2, 143, 144, 145

Marine Royale 24

Marliani, Manuel 17

Mars
49, 148, 229-30, 257, 282, 294, 295, 298, 301

Marsden, William 81, 88

Martin, Able Seman James xxi, 205, 206

Masséna, Marshal 73

Mazarredo, Vice Admiral Jose de 16

Melville, Lord 59, 70

Mercedes
12

millenarian fever xi-xvi

Nelson's relation to xvi-xviii

prophets xiii-xv

Trafalgar as millennial apocalypse xv-xvi

Miller, Captain 237

Minorca 168, 169, 177

Minto, Lord 190

Missiessy, Admiral 77

Misson, Henri 36

Monarca
229, 307, 308, 310

Moniteur
76

Mont Blanc
19

Montague, Robert 134

Moore, Captain Graham 11, 12

Morrison, Captain 88

Muster Book, The 136-7

Nagle, Luke J 112

Naiad
293, 305, 306

Naples 8, 231

Napoleonic wars 20

Nastyface, Jack 214-15

National Maritime Museum, Greenwich 144, 254

Naucratica: or Naval Dominion
(Pye) 38-9, 41-2

navagation, uncertainties of 79-80

Naval Chronicle
xviii, 12, 313

Nelson, Frances (wife) 272

Nelson, Horatia (daughter) 154, 155, 265, 267, 272

Nelson, Horatio 24, 58

GENERAL

aggression xi, 33, 231, 232

annihilation, declared purpose of 6

apocalyptic and millennial tradition, instinctive response to xvi, xvii, xx

appearance 5, 6-7, 191

archetype, fulfils nation's need for heroic xvii-xviii, 170-1, 191-2

Bayntun, relationship with 131, 133

Blake, connections to xix-xxi

Cape St Vincent 183-4

charm 120, 126

conjuror xvi, 191, 242

contradictory qualities, ability to absorb 234-5

prudence, lack of in Trafalgar tactics 242-4

cosmic and divine, relationship to xvi

deep distrust of affected 18th Century society 192

egotism 154

England, vision of xvii, xix-xx, 127

fame 190-2

Fremantle, relationship with 99-100, 101, 105, 206

friendship, importance of xx-xxi

grace and humanity 153, 241, 251, 303

great machine, sees fleet as 67

great machine, sees himself as part of 67

Hardy, relationship with 139, 266-7, 270-1

Henry V
, quotes 125-7

hero humanised 267

hero, concept of himself as xvi-xvii

heroic, view of 125-7, 170-1, 190

honour, concept and importance of 108, 116-18, 120-2, 126-7

humanity 153, 230, 239, 241, 251, 303

lack of thought for crew's safety 6

love life and concept of love
see
love
and
Hamilton, Emma

love of captains ‘band of brothers' 118, 125, 151, 171, 184, 187-8

love of decoration and medals 126

malaria xvi

mediaeval, entranced with 125-7

method of battle xi, xx-xxi, 33, 121-2, 192-201, 206, 217, 220

naivety 154

Navy regrets singling out at expense of other officers xviii

Nile, injury at 247

prize money, pursuit of 12

prophetic and visionary fire, led on by xvii

reliance on Royal Navy systems 33

requests Pasco go ashore 88

Spanish quality of sailor, criticises 14-15

spirit of Achilles alive within 6, 7, 206

St Paul's crypt 276

style of personal leadership 224

Toulon blockade 74, 78

Troubridge, relationship with 231, 233-5, 236

Villeneuve, chases to West Indies and back to Cadiz 78-81,
82
,
83
, 84, 130

violence, appetite for destructive xvii, 190, 230, 232-3, 234-5, 236, 262

virtues 70

visitation xvi-xvii

wife, treatment of 272

Wordsworth and 192-4

TRAFALGAR 8, 51

allows captains independence of action 44-5, 53

basis of tactics 172-84

battle agitation 92

codicil to his Will 153-5

death 18, 153-6, 246, 251-3, 254-7, 264-5, 266-8, 270-5, 290, 293, 300, 312-13, 316

death, paintings of 251-3, 272-4

forgets to wear his sword 90

Hardy fails to persuade to conceal stars on coat 91

humanity to crew 241

hungry for battle 96

instructions to captains 44-5, 50, 196, 197

loyalty to Calder over Admiralty 187-8

method of command 128-9

near miss 203

‘Nelson Touch' 196, 244

nervous spasms 5

orders men given wine before battle 7

orders surgeons knives are warmed before battle 239

prays for humanity after battle 230

puts himself in bloody crux of battle 237

report on state of ships prior to 89-90

respect for enemy 48

sends Austen and Louis into Gibraltar 119-20

signals to fleet 3-4, 5, 128-9, 160, 183, 215

tactics 162, 183-5, 196-201, 217, 217-18, 240, 242, 260, 277, 279, 281

Trafalgar prayer 153

Neptune
xxi, 25, 91, 92, 98-9, 104, 112, 130, 162, 201, 205, 229, 245, 268, 279, 304, 312

Neptuno
304

Nereide
152

Newcastle, Duke of 166, 170

Nicolas, Lieutenant Paul 51, 162-4, 204, 292-3

Nicolas, Sir Nicholas Harris 128

Nile, Battle of xi, 22-3, 95, 103, 104, 119, 151, 190, 231, 247, 291, 293, 299

nobility:

definition of 275

French post-Revolutionairy sense of 284-7

officer class 24, 26, 28, 43, 45

Northesk, Rear-Admiral the Earl of 88, 275-6, 280

Observation on some Points of Seamanship
(Griffiths) 150

Olaeta, Don Ignacio de 270

Orde, Sir John 79

Orion
51, 188, 280, 281, 304, 306-7, 310

Owen, John 215

Owen, Wilfred 317

Padfield, Miles 201

Pakenham, Thomas 249

Parker, Captain 290-1

Parsons, George 95

Pasco, Lieutenant John 88, 127-8, 265

Pasley, Admiral Sir Thomas 196-7

Peace of Amiens 23, 106

Peasant's Revolt xii

Pellew, Captain Israel 288

Pemberton, Charles 204, 216-17

Penthièvre, Duc de 27-8

Perrée, Admiral 95

Philibert, Lieutenant 292

Pickle
289

Pitt, William xiii, xiv, xv, 30, 38, 40-1, 42, 43, 59, 68, 69-70, 174

Plutarch 285

Pluton
229

politeness, 18th Century idea of 166-9, 171, 172, 192

Polyphemus
219, 220

Pompée
10

Pope, Alexander 115, 206

Popham, Sir Home 128-9

Powys, Caroline Lybbe 167

Prelude
(Wordsworth) 237, 291-2

Pride and Prejudice
(Austen) 172-3

Prince
198, 288, 289

Prince of Wales
186, 187-8

Principe de Asturias
18

Prowse, Captain 155

Purísima Concepción
17

Pye, Henry James 38-9, 41-2

Quebec
133-4, 135

raking fire 220, 223

Ram, Lieutenant William 227

Rayo
305, 311

Redoutable
241, 244, 246, 247, 254, 258, 259, 260, 262-3, 264, 272, 278, 302, 303, 304

Revelation xii

Revenge
88, 214-15, 310

Rice, Henry 106-7, 109-14, 118

Riou, Captain 55

Robinson, Hercules 49-50

Rochefort 75, 79, 85

Rochefoucauld, Duc de 37

Rodney, Admiral 179, 180, 181, 183, 186, 192, 197

Romantic Battle 182-3, 316-17

Rosily, Admiral 47

Rotheram, Edward 275

Rousseau, Jean Jacques 193, 285, 286

Royal Academy 252, 273

Royal Arsenal, Woolwich 247

Royal George
179

Royal Navy 10, 12, 20, 21-2, 23-5, 26, 33, 43, 46, 69, 120, 146, 150, 154, 185

appreciation of within Britain 70-2

bourgeois capitalist philosophy of 44-6, 313

Channel Fleet 74, 84, 86, 87, 99

chivalry, officers' sense of 122-7

class distinctions 54-5, 140-7, 214-15, 216

fleet as a great machine 66-9, 131-2

funding 21-2, 41-3, 58-9

homesickness within 99

humanity 137-8

liberation of individual to win promotion and place 45-6, 184-5

line of battle 175-85

love within 147-56

Mediterranean fleet 54, 74, 78, 101, 103, 121, 191

number of ships 23, 72

officer class 23, 24-5, 26, 102-3

officer status anxiety 107-9, 110, 114

officers' attachment to men 137

officers' knowledge of ships and seafaring 132-3

orderliness of ships 53-7, 58, 59-63, 69, 72-3, 131-2, 133-4, 178, 201-2

penalties 79

punishments 135, 138-41

quality of sailors 15-16

self-image 57-8

self-sacrificial style of command 224-5

state of fleet before Trafalgar 89-90

strategic position, 18th Century 182

superiority of guns 162, 176-7

supply system 21-2, 29-30, 58-9, 69, 72-3

swiftness of attack, new tactical insistence on 178-82

Trafalgar, tension and anxiety on morning of 90-1

tyrant captains 152-3

yearning for beautiful machine founded on anxiety 58-60

zeal, importance of 43-5

Royal Sovereign
157, 160, 215, 217, 219-20, 221,
221
, 222, 223, 225-6, 245, 275-6, 282, 293, 300, 301

Rudiments of Genteel Behaviour, The
(Nivelon) 165

Rules of Discipline and Good Government to be Observed on Board His Majesty's Ships of War, The
108

Ruskin, John 315-16

Sackville, Lord 37

Saint-André, André Jeanbon 12, 31-2

Salvador del Mundo
17

San Agustín
280, 310

San Francisco de Asís
305

San Juan
94

San Juan Nepocumeno
93

San Justo
225, 229

San Leandro
225, 229

Santa Ana
17, 219-20, 221,
221
, 223, 225, 226, 236, 245, 304, 305

Santísima Trinidad
4, 10, 17, 201, 227, 241, 269, 270, 287-8, 310, 311

Sassoon, Siegfried 317

Scorpion
120-1

Scott, Reverend Dr Alexander 265, 266, 268, 270, 274

Scott, John 202-3, 227, 254

Seahorse
230, 232

Senhouse, Lieutenant Humphrey 198, 199-200, 284, 292

Servaux, Pierre 222-3, 224

Seven Years War 20, 53, 179, 251

Shakespeare, William 126

ships:

beautiful order of 66

danger of 146-7

decks, differences of danger upon 223

delicacy of 240-1

guns 64, 175-7, 202-3, 219, 248-9

hull 63, 64-5

keel 64

log 136

Muster Book, The 136-7

Quarterdeck 148, 155, 294

rig 65-6

stern 64

Trafalgar, damage to 298-9

very nearly unsinkable 248

Shovell, Sir Cloudesley 24

Simond, Louis 37

Sirius
155

Smith, Adam 44, 45, 250-1

Smith, John 269-70

Southampton
175

Southcott, Joanna xiv-xv, xvii

Southey, Robert xiv, xvi-xvii

Spain:

backward 13-14, 34-5

conservative 13-14, 43

disease, prevalence of 15

Spanish Armada 57

Spanish Royal Navy 17

aristocratic officer class 24, 26, 28, 43, 45

attacked by British ships seeking prize money 11-12

considered secondary to army 18

crucifixes hung on ships 160

disease, prevalence in fleet of 15