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Stewart William — Lt-Col

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Stewart William — Lt-Col

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Overview

Lieutenant-Colonel William Stewart is already on the Battle of Copenhagen 1801 — Overview. Around 1pm on 2 April 1801, when Hyde Parker — British Admiral hoisted Signal 39, Nelson Horatio — Biography Overview turned to Foley Thomas — British Captain and Stewart on HMS Elephant — 74-gun Third Rate.1

The Day

This note covers that day only. A later life, the Cumloden Papers as a document note, and the exact wording of the blind-eye speech stay on the Copenhagen note and on RESEARCH_QUEUE. The battle note already records that Nelson claimed a right to be blind, put a telescope to his blind right eye, said he could not see the signal, and kept Signal 16 flying.2

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Footnotes

  1. Stewart present with Foley when Signal 39 was hoisted: Battle of Copenhagen 1801 — Overview. ↩

  2. Blind right eye; Signal 16 kept flying: same battle note. Do not paste the verbatim speech; it already lives there. ↩

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