BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 5, 10 May 1913, Page 3

BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR.

INTERESTING REMINISCENCE. Sydney, Last night. Through the courtesy of Admiral King Hall, the papers publish two hitherto unpublished letters written in November and December, 1805, by Captain Moorsom, of the Revenge, | describing the battle of Trafalgar. Thoi original lotetrs are in the possession j of Lady Longmore, a grand-daughter of Captain Moorsom, and give a lively picture of the conflict from this participant’s standpoint. Captain Moorsom’s version of Nelson’s famous signal is “England Expects Every Man Will Do His Duty.” Ho adds: “I am not sure that our mode of attack was the best, but it succeeded. The action was irregular. The ships got down as fast as they could into any space where they found an enemy without attending to their place in the line, the regular plan laid down by Lord Nelson some time before the action, but not acted upon. His great anxiety seemed to bo to get to leeward of them lost they make off to Cadiz before be could get near.’ Ho mentions that the enemy’s fleet gave way in about three hours, and went off as fast as it could.