Selection from the Public and Private Correspondence of Vice-Admiral Lord Collingwood: Interspersed with Memoirs of His Life

by Cuthbert Collingwood, George Lewis Newnham Collingwood

Excerpt from Selection From the Public and Private Correspondence of Vice-Admiral Lord Collingwood: Interspersed With Memoirs of His Life

Few persons are unacquainted with the part which Lord Col lingwood bore in some of the most memorable naval triumphs of the last war; and among the members of his own profession, his almost unrivalled skill as a seaman, and his general talents for com mand, will long be remembered with admiration: but as he was a man of retired habits, and passed the greater part of his life at sea, the public at large have not had sufficient means of appreci ating the high qualities and attainments by which he was distin guished. It has, therefore, been deemed advisable to collect into the present volume some of his private Letters, and such parts of his public Correspondence as have now become matters of history.

428 pages, Paperback

First published August 13, 2015

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Vice Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood (26 September 1748 – 7 March 1810) was an admiral of the Royal Navy, notable as a partner with Lord Nelson in several of the British victories of the Napoleonic Wars, and frequently as Nelson's successor in commands.

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