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27 KING GEORGE I AS GODFATHER: Hannay, 4; Spinney, 19, declares this claim is a myth.
28 WRAXALL, “TWO PASSIONS HIGHLY INJURIOUS”: Wraxall, 130.
29 WALPOLE, THE PRINCESS AMELIA AND “LITTLE MISS ASHE”: to Montagu, June 23, 1750, Walpole, Corres., IX, 106, n. 13; Wraxall, 130.
30 RODNEY, “MAKING HIMSELF FREQUENTLY THE THEME OF HIS OWN DISCOURSE”: Wraxall, 130.
31 “HIS PERSON WAS MORE ELEGANT”: ibid.
32 “THE MOST ENTERPRISING AND IRASCIBLE”: Valentine, Establishment, II, 747.
33 ADMIRAL KING: Hough, 219.
34 ADMIRAL HYDE PARKER, LESTOCK, MATHEWS, D’ESTAING AND OTHERS WHO WERE IRASCIBLE: Lestock and Mathews, MacIntyre, 20; Hyde Parker and d’Estaing, Lewis, C. L., 71-80.
35 DE GRASSE ADMINISTERED “SHARPEST REPROACHES”: Tornquist, 42.
36 SANDWICH, “NO SET OF MEN UNDERSTAND THESE MATTERS SO ILL”: q. Martelli, 23.
37 “CHARMING MARITIME ILL-TEMPER”: Anonymous, 63.
38 ADMIRAL MAHAN ON NEED OF EDUCATION: Mahan, Influence, 267.
39 HAKLUYT, CHARLES V WITH “GREAT FORESIGHT”: Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffics, and Discoveries of the English Nation, Glasgow, 1903, I, 34-5.
40 ENGLISH LOOT AT FINISTERRE: Lewis, C. L., 24-7; MacIntyre, 27.
41 FIGHT OF THE GLOIRE AT FINISTERRE: Lewis, C. L., 24-6.
42 PRIZE LAW ON DIVISION OF LOOT AMONG OFFICERS: MacIntyre, 26; Morison, Jones, 68.
43 RODNEY’S SHARE WAS £8,165: Spinney, 80.
44 LOOT AT HAVANA: Lewis, C. L., 69.
45 BRITISH NAVAL APPROPRIATIONS CUT: Kennedy, 109.
46 FRENCH NAVAL THEORY, ADMIRAL GRIVEL QUOTED: q. Mahan, Influence, 289.
47 NELSON’S VICTORY REQUIRED 2,500 TREES: Whipple, 17.
48 CONDUCT OF GUNNERY: Morison, Jones, 41-2.
49 GUN CREWS COULD FIRE ONCE EVERY TWO MINUTES: Whipple, 30.
50 MANAGEMENT OF SAIL: Morison, Jones, 58; Larrabee, 7.
51 M. MAUREPAS, PIFF POFF: q. Martelli, 215.
52 MATHEWS-LESTOCK QUARREL AT BATTLE OF TOULON: Mahan, Influence, 265-7; Lewis, C. L., 22; MacIntyre, 20-1.
53 MAHAN, “POSSIBLE TAINT OF ILL WILL”: Mahan, Influence, 267.
54 FIGHTING INSTRUCTIONS: MacIntyre, 21; Encyc. Brit., 11th edition: “Toulon”; Whipple, 13.
55 MATHEWS-LESTOCK COURTS-MARTIAL: MacIntyre, 22-3.
56 LINE AHEAD: Whipple, 45.
57 LOUIS XVI, “BUT WHO SHALL RESTORE THE BRAVE SAILORS”: Mundy, II, 273.
58 ADMIRALTY’S REPORT OF 35 SHIPS OF THE LINE: James, W. M., 122; Mahan, Influence, 341.
59 KEPPEL, “NO PLEASURE TO HIS SEAMAN’S EYE”: ibid.
60 ON CONDITIONS IN THE NAVY: MacIntyre, 35-6, 74-6.
61 BYNG, “I SHALL ENDEAVOR TO AVOID”: q. Mahan, Types, 571-3; for the case of Admiral Byng, Mahan, Influence, 286-91.
62 BYNG CONDEMNED FOR NEGLIGENCE: MacIntyre, 37.
63 RODNEY AIDS PETITION FOR PARDON: Spinney, 131.
64 SCHOOLBOY OF EDINBURGH, JOHN CLERK: Whipple, 53-4.
65 BREAKING THE LINE: Mahan, Influence, 381.
66 CHURCHILL, “PROFESSIONAL HIERARCHY OF THE ROYAL NAVY”: Hough, 247.
67 BATTLES OFF BREST AND CAPE FINISTERRE: Spinney, 75-84.
68 GEORGE II ON RODNEY’S YOUTH: Mundy, I, 43.
69 WALPOLE, “STREETS OF OUR CAPITAL, THE OCEAN”: to Mann, May 18, 1782, Corres., XXV, 277.
70 MAHAN, “KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN HAD BECOME THE BRITISH EMPIRE”: Mahan, Influence, 291.
71 QUIBERON BAY CALLED “THE GREATEST VICTORY”: Valentine, Establishment, I, 429.
72 RODNEY AT LE HAVRE: Mundy, I, 54-5; Spinney, 153 et seq.
73 COLORS FOR GRADES OF ADMIRAL: letter to author from Naval Historical Library of Ministry of Defence, London, November 2, 1987.
74 GEORGE III, “OUR ISLANDS MUST BE DEFENDED.… IF WE LOSE OUR SUGAR ISLANDS”: Sandwich Papers, III, 163.
75 SANDWICH, FLEET IN LEEWARDS “VERY DEPLORABLE”: ibid., 164.
76 RODNEY AT MARTINIQUE IN 1761 “SILENCED THE FORTS”: Mundy, I, 69-70.
77 “NOBLEST AND BEST HARBOUR”: ibid., 73.
78 “FROM THAT MOMENT,” WROTE RODNEY’S BIOGRAPHER, PREDICTING MOVEMENT FOR INDEPENDENCE: ibid., 99.
79 ON RANKS OF REAR AND VICE ADMIRAL AND RODNEY’S CAREER PROGRESSION: Spinney, appendix XI.
CHAPTER VIII THE FRENCH INTERVENTION
For political quarrel in the Royal Navy: Wraxall, Spinney. For the Carlisle peace mission: Townshend, McDevitt.
1 BATTLE OF USHANT AND CONSEQUENCES: James, W. M., 124-42; Griffith, 518-19;