Telescope — Copenhagen 2 April 1801
Generated illustration. Not a historical photograph. A telescope on a quarterdeck rail. Not a portrait.
Overview
The telescope is already on the Battle of Copenhagen 1801 — Overview and Stewart William — Lt-Col. Around 1pm on 2 April 1801, when Hyde Parker — British Admiral hoisted Signal 39, Nelson Horatio — Biography Overview put a telescope to his blind right eye.1
The Object
This note covers that object on that afternoon only. Maker, magnification, and a surviving instrument stay on RESEARCH_QUEUE. The verbatim speech stays on the battle note.
He kept Signal 16 flying. Stewart William — Lt-Col and Foley Thomas — British Captain were with him on HMS Elephant — 74-gun Third Rate. The right-eye wound is on Nelson — Loss of Eye at Calvi 1794.2
Sources
- @knight2005pursuit — pp. 374–408
- @white2005nelson
- @adkin2005trafalgar
- Battle of Copenhagen 1801 — Overview
- Stewart William — Lt-Col
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Same Subject
- Battle of Copenhagen 1801 — Overview
- Stewart William — Lt-Col
- Nelson — Loss of Eye at Calvi 1794
- HMS Elephant — 74-gun Third Rate
- Hyde Parker — British Admiral
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Footnotes
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Telescope to the blind right eye; Signal 39; about 1pm 2 April 1801: Battle of Copenhagen 1801 — Overview and Stewart William — Lt-Col. ↩
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Signal 16 kept flying; Stewart and Foley on Elephant: same notes. Do not invent a maker or magnification. Do not recopy the verbatim speech. ↩