Calvi Lion Sun — Half Sick

Generated illustration. Not a historical photograph. Earthworks by a harbour. Not Calvi, and not a portrait.

Overview

Nelson — Loss of Eye at Calvi 1794 already records the wound. The omitted name stays on Calvi Wounded-List Omission. The 150 / fifty figure stays on Calvi Sick-List — 150 in Beds. This note covers the lion-sun sick-list only.¹

The Season

Southey says the climate proved more destructive than the service; for this was during the lion sun, as they there call our season of the dog-days. Of 2000 men, above half were sick, and the rest like so many phantoms.²

Spoken lines stay off this page. The right-eye wound stays on Nelson — Loss of Eye at Calvi 1794. This page does not invent a disease name.

Sources

• @southey1813nelson
• Nelson — Loss of Eye at Calvi 1794

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• Nelson — Loss of Eye at Calvi 1794
• Calvi Wounded-List Omission
• Calvi Sick-List — 150 in Beds
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Footnotes

1. Wound only: Nelson — Loss of Eye at Calvi 1794. Omission: Calvi Wounded-List Omission. 150 / fifty: Calvi Sick-List — 150 in Beds. ↩

2. “The climate proved more destructive than the service; for this was during the lion sun, as they there call our season of the dog-days. Of 2000 men, above half were sick.” @southey1813nelson vol. 1, p. 118 (1813). Do not recopy the eye. Do not add spoken lines. ↩