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" The next day he anchored at Gibraltar; and on the 20th, says he, " I went on shore for the first time since June 16th, 1803 ; and from having my foot out of the Victory, two years, wanting ten days. "
Memoirs of the Life of Vice-Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson - Page 479
by Thomas Joseph Pettigrew - 1849
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The life of ... Horatio lord viscount Nelson, Volume 2

James Harrison (biographer of Nelson.) - 1806 - 522 pages
...provisions and stores — " I went on shore," writes his lordship, " for the " first time, since Junel6, 1803; and, from having " my foot out of the Victory, two years wanting ten " days." Having sent dispatches to England, and finished getting ready for sea, next day, Lord Nelson, on the...
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The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Volume 2

1810 - 492 pages
...20th July, says he, in his own dial) , "/ went on shore for 'the Jirtt time since June \6th, ISO."; and from having my foot out of the Victory, two years wanting tu-o day*." It was on the 21st of the following October (1805) that his last achievement and his death...
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The Life of Nelson, Volume 2

Robert Southey - Admirals - 1813 - 306 pages
...anchored at Gibraltar ; and on the 20th, says lie, " I went on shore for the first time « since June 16, 1803 ; and from having my " foot out of the Victory, two years, wanting " ten days." Here he communicated with his old friend Collingwood ; who, having been detatched •with a squadron,...
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The Naval History of Great Britain: From the Year MDCCLXXXIII to MDCCCXXII.

Edward Pelham Brenton - Great Britain - 1824 - 588 pages
...in his way, that the combined fleet was not in Cadiz. He anchored in Gibraltar-bay on the 19th, and went on shore, for the first time, since the 16th of June, 1803; and two years, except ten days, had elapsed since he had had his foot out of the Victory. From this place...
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The Life of Nelson

Robert Southey - Admirals - 1830 - 354 pages
...anchored at Gibraltar; and on the 20th, says he, "I •went on shore for the first time since June 16, 1803 ; and from having my foot out of the Victory, two years, wanting ten days." Here he communicated with his old friend Collingwood; who, having been detached with a squadron, when...
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The life of Nelson revised and illustrated, by the Old Sailor

Horatio Nelson Nelson (Viscount), Matthew Henry Barker - 1836 - 500 pages
...the enemy. On the 20U he remarks in his diary, " I went on shore for the first time since June 16, 1803, and from having my foot out of the Victory two years, wanting ten days." Instance of Nelson's Sagacity. The fleet, having watered in Mazari Bay, near Tc tuan, again passed...
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The naval history of Great Britain, from ... 1793, to ... 1820, with an ...

William James - 1837 - 412 pages
...Victoires et Conquetes, tome xvi., p. 128. t See p. 334. on shore for the first time since June 16, 1803, and from having my foot out of the Victory, two years wanting 10 days." On the 22d the fleet weighed and stood across to Tetuan to water, anchoring at 8 p. M. in...
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The Naval History of Great Britain: From the Declaration of War by ..., Volume 3

William James - Great Britain - 1837 - 416 pages
...Victoires et Conquctes, tome xvi., p. 128. f See p. 334. on shore for the first time since June 16, 1803, and from having my foot out of the Victory, two years wanting 10 days." On the 22d the fleet weighed and stood across to Tetuan to water, anchoring at 8 PM in Mazari...
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The Family Library (Harper)., Volume 6

Child rearing - 1843 - 320 pages
...chored at Gibraltar ; and on the 20th, says he, " I •went on shore for the first time since June 16, 1803 and from* having my foot out of the Victory, two years, wanting ten days." Here he communicated with his old friend Collingwood ; who, having been detached with a squadron, wjhen...
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The Pictorial History of England During the Reign of George the Third: 1802-1820

George Lillie Craik, Charles MacFarlane - Great Britain - 1844 - 928 pages
...and on the 20th, as he says in his diary, " 1 went on shore for the first time since June the, 16th, 1803, and from having my foot out of the ' Victory' two years wanting ten days." But even now he had short time for shore-rest : on the 22nd he stood across to Tetuan to water ; on...
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