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Author: | tycho [ Mon Oct 21, 2019 5:50 am ] |
Post subject: | Trafalgar Day 2019 |
Remembering today, Trafalgar Day, Admiral Lord Nelson and all who fell with him. Another exciting discovery by Martin Downer: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-h ... e-50102210 |
Author: | Phil [ Thu Oct 24, 2019 2:52 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Trafalgar Day 2019 |
Anna It was interesting to read your link to the BBC site concerning Nelsons recently discovered sketch for his Trafalgar battle plan. I hope we can look forward to an article from Martin Downer in a future Nelson Dispatch, with further details of this find. Reading this, prompted me to recall a similar rough sketch of Nelson's plan which featured in Colin White's 'The New Letters' published in 2005. This contains an illustration of this other sketch (illus:39a between pages 382-383) which was discovered in 2001. He goes on to say that it appears on the back of some hastily scribbled notes for a meeting, probably at the Navy Board sometime early in September 1805. With items like this coming to light after 214 years, I wonder what else is out there to be discovered. Phil |
Author: | Phil [ Tue Dec 10, 2019 3:53 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Trafalgar Day 2019 |
Martin Downer has published an interesting article in the latest edition of the Nelson Dispatch regarding the scrapbook containing the pencil sketch battle plan. A find on eBay apparently. The scrapbook has now been purchased by the National Museum of the Royal Navy at Portsmouth. |
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