BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 9 May 1913, Page 5

BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR.

INTERESTING ACCOUNT OF THfc BATTLE.

FROM HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED LETTERS. (Received Last Night, 10 o'clock.) SYDNEY, May 8. The increase is necessitated as a King-HaD, the newspapers have published two hitherto unpublished letters, written in November and December, 1805, .by captain Moorsom, of the "Rcveihige," describing the Battle of Trafalgar. The originals of the letters are in the possession of Lady Longmore, a granddaughter of Captain .Moorsom. The letters gave a lively picture of the conflict from a participant's standpoint. Captain Moorsom's version of Lord Nelson's famous signal is: "England expects that every man will do Ins duty." He adds: "I am not sure that our mode of attack was the best; but dt succeeded. The actflflk was irregular. The ships got down as fast a-s they could into any space where they found the enemy, without attending to their place in the . line. A regular plan was laid down by Lord Nolson some time before the action; but at was not acted upon. His great anxiety seemed to be to get leeward of them, lest they make off to Cadiz before he could get near." Captain Moorsom mentions that the enemies' fleet gave way in about three hours, a.nd went off as fast as it could.