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Trafalgar 200 : Newspaper Report of Death of Nelson
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From: MSN NicknameLettie011  (Original Message)Sent: 6/5/2005 1:17 PM
Death of Nelson

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Sunday November 10, 1805

No further accounts reached the Admiralty yesterday from our victorious fleet off Cudiz; a report however prevailed there, and at the Navy Office, which is likewise mentioned in our letters from Plymouth, that Admiral Collingwood had succeeded in saving ten of the prizes - we shall rejoice in its confirmation.

We are enabled to remove a considerable degree of solicitude, which prevailed, as to the safety of our own vessels, by announcing that, when the Pickle left the fleet, it had succeeded in making an offing and was beyond the possibilty of danger from the rocks, which project from Cape Trafalgar. Some of the prizes, and the Bellisle, are stated to have found shelter to the Westward of Cape Marinal.

The report of thirteen of the enemy's ships having put to sea, with a view to pick up any of our disabled ships or prizes is erroneous - they merely anchored under the battery, near the lighthouse, probably for the purpose of escaping into the Mediterranean.

The ball which deprived the country of one of its proudest ornaments, the ever to be lamented Nelson, entered his shoulder, carrying away part of the epaulet, and penetrated into his left breast - the excess of internal bleeding occasioned suffocation. His body, which is preserved in spirits, is, we understand, coming home on board the Entreprentante cutter, and is to lie in state.

The man who killed Lord Nelson, was observed in the act of firing by a Midshipman on the poop of the Victory, who fired at, and killed or wounded him, as he immediately fell down on the quarter-deck of the Trinidada. He had previously shot Capt. Adair and wounded the Signal-Lieutenant, Pasco.

An American vessel arrived at Plymouth on Thursday, the Master of which reports that, off the Land's End, he saw seven large ships, under navy-masts, which, at Plymouth, were supposed to be some of the prizes.





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