NELSON, Horatio, Viscount Nelson.

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Report of a Committee Appointed by the Admiralty to Examine and Consider the Evidence Relating to the Tactics Employed by Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar. First edition, a key work for understanding the tactics employed by Nelson in the battle. Included is a spectacularly detailed track chart of the fleet's movements off Cadiz and plans recording its position at three junctures between 19 and 21 October.The committee was set up to question the controversial conclusions of Sir Julian Corbett's Campaign of Trafalgar (1910), but after a close study of original logs and journals, contemporary battle plans and signal books, and published works such as Desbrière's magisterial account of 1907, it largely concurred with Corbett's findings. The members included Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge (the chairman), Admiral Sir Reginald Custance, the historian and Admiralty secretary C. H. Firth, and W. G. Perrin, the Admiralty librarian who in 1908 had discovered the original signal books employed at Trafalgar.

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