Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1917 — WONDERFUL FEAT OF NELSON [ARTICLE]

WONDERFUL FEAT OF NELSON

How a Writer Got Things Mixed on Incident in Life of Great Admiral* It is, of course, necessary that writers of historical reminiscences be masters of a certain amount of accurate information about their heroes if they are to avoid mistakes. There is an amusing instance of how one writer, lacking such information, got things mixed with reference to an incident in the life of the great Nelson. Not so long ago a reviewer in a London papep criticizing a book on Nelson, related on his own account the following episode of the eminent- British naval commander: “While in chase "of Villeneuve’s French fleet he was informed of the enemy heaving id sight, at which information Nelson evinced the highest satisfaction and gleefully rubbed his hands.” Whereupon some one Immediately pointed out that this incident had occurred in 1805, and that Nelson had lost his right arm in the attack on Santa Cruz, Tenerlffe, in 1797 —eight years prior to his pursuit of Vllleneuve’s fleet.