Calvi Wounded-List Omission

Generated illustration. Not a historical photograph. A night harbour under a high island. Not a Calvi portrait and not a siege plan.

Overview

Nelson — Loss of Eye at Calvi 1794 already records the right-eye wound. Bastia Landing — 4 April 1794 already records the 4 April landing. This note covers the wounded-list omission only.¹

The Omission

Southey says that after the fall of Calvi, his services were, by a strange omission, altogether overlooked; and his name was not even mentioned in the list of wounded. This was no ways imputable to the admiral, for he sent home to government Nelson’s journal of the siege, that they might fully understand the nature of his indefatigable and unequalled exertions. If those exertions were not rewarded in the conspicuous manner which they deserved, the fault was in the administration of the day, not in Lord Hood.²

The right-eye wound stays on Nelson — Loss of Eye at Calvi 1794. The 4 April landing stays on Bastia Landing — 4 April 1794. This page does not invent a battery, or recopy a spoken line.

Sources

• @southey1813nelson
• Nelson — Loss of Eye at Calvi 1794
• Bastia Landing — 4 April 1794

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• Nelson — Loss of Eye at Calvi 1794
• Bastia Landing — 4 April 1794
• Robert Southey’s Life of Nelson 1813 — The Hagiographic Founding Text
• Nelson Horatio — Biography Overview
• Calvi Sick-List — 150 in Beds — 150 / fifty only
• Calvi Lion Sun — Half Sick — lion sun / 2000 half sick only

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Footnotes

1. Right-eye wound only: Nelson — Loss of Eye at Calvi 1794. 4 April landing only: Bastia Landing — 4 April 1794. ↩

2. “After the fall of Calvi, his services were, by a strange omission, altogether overlooked; and his name was not even mentioned in the list of wounded.” @southey1813nelson vol. 1, pp. 118–119 (1813). Do not invent a battery or recopy a spoken line. ↩