Chapter 2

1 Lisle Rose, Power at Sea: The Breaking Storm 1919–1945 (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2007), 217.

2 Colin White, ed., Nelson: The New Letters (Woodbridge, UK: The Boydell Press, 2005), 206.

3 Noel Mostert, The Line Upon a Wind: The Great War at Sea, 1793–1815 (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2007), 36–37.

4 John Keegan, The Price of Admiralty: The Evolution of Naval Warfare (New York: Penguin Books, 1988), 66.

5 Mostert, The Line Upon a Wind, 195.

6 Ibid., 199.

7 Mostert, The Line Upon a Wind, 169.

8 Roger Knight, The Pursuit of Victory: The Life and Achievement of Horatio Nelson (New York: Basic Books, 2005), 295.

9 Arthur Herman, To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World (New York: HarperCollins, ...

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