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Authors: John Sugden

Nelson

About the Book

Nelson: A Dream of Glory
is the most comprehensive and thoroughly researched account ever written of Horatio Nelson's rise to international fame. Giving us the private as well as the public man, it combines ground-breaking scholarship with a brilliantly vivid and compelling style.

‘A magnificently-researched and thoughtful work which locates Nelson in a global context.’ Linda Colley

‘Massively authoritative.’ Max Hastings,
Sunday Telegraph

‘This monumental tome is the finest yet written on England’s naval hero... Sugden’s brilliant book is chock-f of fascinating details. And if the second volume turns out as well as this, his life of Nelson will be one of the historical masterpieces of our time.’ Frank McLynn,
Daily Express

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The recipient of numerous awards, John Sugden has degrees from three British universities and was formerly a lecturer and senior research fellow. He has pursued historical research in archives throughout Britain and North America and his books and many articles have been published to great acclaim. With
Nelson
Dr Sugden returns to a lifelong interest in naval history. A member of the Society for Nautical Research for forty years, his publications include a popular biography of Sir Francis Drake. It was while researching a doctorate on Nelson’s navy thirty years ago that he recognised the extent of the untapped materials and the need for a major new biography.

Praise for
Nelson: A Dream of Glory

‘This monumental tome is the finest yet written on England’s great naval hero... chock-f of fascinating detail, from Nelson’s battles to his first mistress, Adelaide Correglia.’ Frank McLynn,
Daily Express

‘Sugden’s account... is richly absorbing, and his fluent, buoyant prose scuds along, carrying the reader with it. This must surely become a standard life.’ Jane Ridley,
Spectator

‘Sugden makes very effective use of the new material to challenge the traditional story. Moreover... he has tracked down some of the little known characters – junior officers, even ordinary seamen, and brought them alive by meticulous research.’ Colin White,
Observer

‘A masterpiece of the biographer’s art... A book that will be the yardstick by which all other Nelson biographies will be judged for decades to come.’ Neil Hanson,
Sunday Times

‘Sugden’s passion for his subject and astonishing research reveal the blossoming hero in a new light.’ Lucy Moore,
Daily Mail

‘The massive, magisterially detailed first volume of what will surely be the definitive life.’ T. J. Binyon,
Scotsman

‘The most detailed study of Nelson ever published.’ F. J. M. Scott,
History Today

NELSON

A Dream of Glory

JOHN SUGDEN

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First published in Great Britain by
Jonathan Cape in 2004

Pimlico edition 2005

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ISBN 9780712667432 (from Jan 2007)
ISBN 0712667431

Hope revives within me. I shall
recover, and my dream of glory be fulfilled.
Nelson will yet be an admiral
.

Horatio Nelson, aged twenty-one, shipped home with malaria, 1780

This one is for my mother, Lily,
who told me that Nelson was
the
great man;
for Phil, who prefers James Cook;
and for Terri,
who alone of us has crewed aboard a tall ship

CONTENTS

Cover

About the Book

About the Author

Praise

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

List of Illustrations

Maps

Introduction

I: Prologue: Duel at Midnight

BOOK ONE: The Prelude, 1758–92

II: The Small World of Burnham Thorpe

III: Captain Suckling’s Nephew

IV: Northward Ho!

V: East Indies Adventure

VI: Lieutenant Nelson

VII: The First Commands

VIII: In the Wake of the Buccaneers

IX: Fighting Back

X: ‘The Poor
Albemarle

XI: Love in St-Omer

XII: Hurricane Harbour

XIII: Old Officers and Young Gentlemen

XIV: Dearest Fanny

XV: The Prince and the Post-Captain

XVI: Beachcombing

BOOK TWO: ‘To Glory We Steer’, 1793–7

XVII: Captain of the
Agamemnon

XVIII Corsica

XIX: A Long and Hazardous Service

XX: Two Meetings with French Gentry

XXI: Drifting to Leeward

XXII: From Flag Captain to Ship-Boy

XXIII: Commodore Nelson

XXIV: The Happy Moment

XXV: Who Will Not Fight For Dollars?

XXVI: More Daring Intrepidity Was Never Shown

XXVII: Useless to my Country

Acknowledgements

Notes and Citations

Abbreviations

Select Bibliography

Glossary

Picture Section

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

1. Captain Horatio Nelson, 1781 (
copyright National Maritime Museum, London
).

2. Rear-Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson, K.B., 1797 (
by permission of the Royal Hospital School, Holbrook, Ipswich
).

3. Edmund Nelson (
author’s collection
).

4. Catherine Nelson (
author’s collection
).

5. Ann Suckling (
copyright National Maritime Museum, London
).

6. Nelson’s Norfolk (
author’s collection
).

7. Burnham Thorpe Rectory (
author’s collection
).

8. Norwich School (
courtesy of Julian Lowe
).

9. The Paston School, North Walsham (
author’s collection
).

10. Maurice Suckling (
author’s collection
).

11. Skeffington Lutwidge (
author’s collection
).

12. The
Carcass
and the
Racehorse
, 1773 (
author’s collection
).

13. George Farmer (
courtesy of the Hull Reference Library
).

14. Edward Hughes (
courtesy of the Hull Reference Library
).

15. Charles Pole (
author’s collection
).

16. William Locker and his family (
author’s collection
).

17. Peter Parker (
courtesy of the Hull Reference Library
).

18. Cuthbert Collingwood (
copyright National Maritime Museum, London
).

19. Mary Moutray (
by permission of Clive Richards
).

20. English Harbour, Antigua (
author’s collection
).

21. Prince William Henry (
author’s collection
).

22. Frances, Lady Nelson (
copyright National Maritime Museum, London
).

23. House of William Suckling (
author’s collection
).

24. Courtenay Boyle (
author’s collection
).

25. George Andrews (
by permission of the Nelson Society
).

26. Samuel, Viscount Hood (
author’s collection
).

27. John Jervis, Earl St. Vincent (
author’s collection
).

28. Gilbert Elliot, Earl of Minto (
author’s collection
).

29. Charles Stuart (
courtesy of Glasgow Museums: Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove
).

30. Francis Drake (
copyright The British Museum
).

31. John Trevor, Viscount Hampden (
courtesy of Lord Hampden/ the Trustees of the Glynde Endowment Settlement; Photographic Survey, Courtauld Institute of Art
).

32. Thomas Francis Fremantle (
courtesy of Sir Ludovic Kennedy
).

33. Thomas Troubridge (
author’s collection
).

34. Thomas Ramsay (
copyright The British Museum
).

35. William Hoste (
author’s collection
).

36. Battle of Cape St. Vincent, 1797 (
author’s collection
).

37. Boarding the
San Nicolas
, 1797 (
author’s collection
).

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