Chapter 9

1. INTRODUCTORY. THE NEW SIGNAL BOOK INSTRUCTIONS 233 Lord Howe, 1782 239

2. INTRODUCTORY. THE SIGNAL BOOKS OF THE GREAT WAR 252 Lord Howe's Explanatory Instructions, 1799 268

3. INTRODUCTORY. NELSON'S TACTICAL MEMORANDA 280 The Toulon Memorandum, 1803 313 The Trafalgar Memorandum, 1805 316

4. INTRODUCTORY. INSTRUCTIONS AFTER TRAFALGAR 321 Admiral Gambier, 1807 327 Lord Collingwood, 1808-1810 328 Sir Alexander Cochrane, 1805-14 330

5. INTRODUCTORY, THE SIGNAL BOOK OF 1816 335 The Instructions of 1816 342

APPENDIX. 'FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE TRAFALGAR FIGHT' 351

INDEX 359