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The name of the little white house was said to be Trafalgar Villa, which seemed so inappropriate to the modest peaceful little home, that the man who lived in it tried to find out why it had been so called.
Near Buckingham Palace he turned back, walking by the way he had come, and leaving the park at the new gate. He crossed the plexus of ways where Northumberland Avenue debouches on Trafalgar Square. It was near twelve o'clock, and the first evening papers were out.
All possibility of an invasion of England passed away with the destruction of the Brest fleet. The battle of November 20, 1759, was the Trafalgar of this war; and though a blockade was maintained over the fractions that were laid up in the Vilaine and at Rochefort, the English fleets were now free to act against the colonies of France, and later of Spain, on a grander scale than ever before.
They threw heavy shots at low velocity with great battery effect. They were for a long time in use in the British navy. The sailors called them "smashers." The entire battery of the Victory, Nelson's famous flag-ship at the battle of Trafalgar, amounting to a total of 102 guns, was composed of "carronades" varying in size from thirty-two to sixty-eight pounders.
Upon the skirts of battle, from Sluys to Trafalgar, We know that there were small craft, because there always are; Yacht, sweeper, sloop and drifter, to-day as yesterday, The big ships fight the battles, but the small craft clear the way.
I thought, however, my boy, that you looked down on `Her Majesty's hard bargains, as poor Government clerks are somewhat unjustly termed?" "That was, because I thought they were a pack of idlers, doing nothing, and earning a menial salary for it. `Playing from ten to to four, like the fountains in Trafalgar Square, as Punch declares," I said.
She walked along the Strand and across Trafalgar Square, and by the Haymarket to Piccadilly, and so through dignified squares and palatial alleys to Oxford Street; and her mind was divided between a speculative treatment of employment on the one hand, and breezes zephyr breezes of the keenest appreciation for London, on the other.
I, 1801-1832 , political and conservative; G. C. Broderick and J. K. Fotheringham, Political History of England, 1801-1837 , accurate but dry, containing valuable bibliographies; J. H. Rose, William Pitt and the Great War , a notable contribution, and, by the same author, though not so excellent, Pitt and Napoleon: Essays and Letters ; W. C. Russell, Horatio Nelson , a convenient little biography in the "Heroes of the Nations" Series; A. T. Mahan, The Life of Nelson, the Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain, 2 vols. , a standard work; J. S. Corbett, Campaign of Trafalgar , with reference to Pitt more than to Nelson; A. T. Mahan, Sea Power in its Relation to the War of 1812, 2 vols. ; J. W. Fortescue, History of the British Army, Vols.
"I wish Trafalgar Square wasn't out of bounds," Harris said one evening. They had finished the work for the next day, and had gathered for a chat in Frank's room before turning into bed. Frank was sitting in a rickety arm-chair by the fire, Harris on the table, and the other two on the bed. "Why do you wish so, Harris?" Frank said.
It will also show that there was no development of, but a relative decline in, the three-deckers and the 64's, the small additions, where there were any, being generally due to captures from the enemy. The two-deckers not 'fit to lie in a line' were at the end of the Trafalgar year about half what they were when the first period of the 'Great War' began.
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