[Nelson, Horatio, Lord]:

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AN ACCOUNT OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF CAPTAIN NELSON OF HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP BOREAS, RELATIVE TO THE ILLEGAL TRADE CARRIED ON BETWEEN THE AMERICANS AND THE BRITISH WEST INDIA ISLANDS [manuscript caption ... A contemporary manuscript transcription of a narrative written by Captain Horatio Nelson in late June 1786, detailing his efforts to enforce the British Navigation Acts in the West Indies while posted to the twenty-eight-gun frigate, HMS Boreas. The events documented in this manuscript occurred quite early in Nelson's naval career, when he was just twenty-five years old, and his actions in strictly enforcing the Navigation Acts against the newly-independent United States could have jeopardized his career. The significance Nelson gave the situation is evident in the detailed collection of documents he assembled to defend himself. Though an edited version of Nelson's narrative was published in the 1840s, this contemporary account provides an unedited transcript of Nelson's justification of his actions at a crucial point in his naval career. As described by Rear Admiral Joseph F. Callo, U.S. Navy Reserve (Retired), "Nelson's tour in the West Indies turned out to be a pivot point in his career, a three-year assignment that simultaneously would test and shape his character as a naval officer in career-threatening ways. It was a period when he had to deal with a major conflict between military and diplomatic interests. More important, it was a time when he blatantly challenged the judg

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