CHAPTER V

Nelson and Wellington, the Champions of England

England and France on Land and Sea--Nelson Discovers the French Fleet in Aboukir Bay--The Glorious Battle of the Nile--The Fleet Sails for Copenhagen--The Danish Line of Defence--The Attack on the Danish Fleet--How Nelson Answered the Signal to Cease Action--Nelson in Chase of the French Fleet--The Allied Fleet Leaves Cadiz--Off Cape Trafalgar--The "Victory" and Her Brilliant Fight--The Great Battle and its Sad Disaster--Victory for England and Death for Her Famous Admiral--The British in Portugal--The Death of Sir John Moore--The Gallant Crossing of the Douro--The Victory at Talavera and the Victor's Reward--Wellington's Impregnable Lines at Torres Vedras--The Siege and Capture of the Portuguese Fortresses--Wellington Wins at Salamanca and Enters Madrid--Vittoria and the Pyrenees--The Gathering of the Forces at Brussels--The Battlefield of Waterloo--The Desperate Charges of the French--Blücher's Prussians and the Charge of Napoleon's Old Guard 101