Years of Victory 1802 - 1812
“H. Taylor's brilliant paper on the battle in Vol. LXXXII, No. 528 (Nov., 1937) of the Journal of the Royal United Service Institution; the Admiralty Committee's Report on the Evidence relating to the Tactics employed by Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar (1913); Thursfield's Nelson and Other Studies; Mahan's Nelson; Clarke and M'Arthur'siVc/ron; Nicolas, Vol. VII.; Corbett's Campaign of Trafalgar; Newbolt's The Tear of Trafalgar; Conrad's Mirror of the Sea; Codrington's Memoir; Collingwood's Lif...e; Mark Kerr's The Sailor's Nelson; James's Naval History.
Memorandum "nearly within gunshot of the enemy's centre." The time had now come for the Lee Division to fall on his rear while Nelson prevented the van from coming to its aid. Judging that the disproportion of force and the enemy's in versed sailing order justified a modification of his original instructions, Collingwood decided to cut the line at the sixteenth instead of the twelfth ship from the rear, He thus set his fifteen battleships to engage not an inferior but a superior force.MoreLess
Memorandum "nearly within gunshot of the enemy's centre." The time had now come for the Lee Division to fall on his rear while Nelson prevented the van from coming to its aid. Judging that the disproportion of force and the enemy's in versed sailing order justified a modification of his original instructions, Collingwood decided to cut the line at the sixteenth instead of the twelfth ship from the rear, He thus set his fifteen battleships to engage not an inferior but a superior force.MoreLess
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