Nelson, Admiral

While Admiral Villeneuve was doing his calculations about the outcome of the battle of Trafalgar, Admiral Nelson was also doing some thinking. His fleet was outnumbered 33 to 27, so it didn t take a rocket scientist to predict the outcome of the battle if the... 

After several minutes of brainstorming and calculations (she had her PC on board, so she could use MATLAB to aid in the numerical calculations), Lt. Steadman devised the following plan The British fleet would split the French fleet, taking on 17 ships first and then attacking the other 16 French ships with the remaining British ships. Admiral Nelson approved the plan, and the battle was begun. 

How did Admiral Nelson return to England after the Battle of Trafalgar ... 

Aboard the HMS Victory, in a barrel of brandy. Nelson was killed in 1805, during the Battle of Trafalgar, but his men didn t want to feed him to the fish. Returning the body to England, however, presented them with a challenge until it occurred to one seaman that they could pickle the admiral. 

Everyone knew about alcohol s preservative properties, and there was plenty of brandy on board. They immersed Nelson in the liquid (not in rum, as some romanticized accounts suggest), which they replaced with wine when the ship docked in Gibraltar. There is no truth to the rumor that Nelson s cask arrived in England partly empty because his men weren t put off by a little admiral flavor. Nevertheless, British sailors still... 

Cf. also D. Garrett, Song of Songs (WBC 23B Nashville Thomas Nelson, 2004), 264- She regards 8 13 as the counterpart to 1 2-4. In the latter, the Maiden and a chorus declare their admiration for the man, corresponding to the Lover and a chorus celebrating the transformation of the heroine in the former. 

Because I feel that the basic principles of instrument design should be understood by everyone working in infrared spectroscopy, I asked Dr. Nelson Alpert of the Perkin-Elmer Corporation to prepare the chapter on instrumentation. Dr. Alpert s wide experience in instrument design qualifies him exceptionally well for the task of writing a description of the design concepts that underlie all instruments in such a way that the description will not be outdated by the development of new instrument designs. I feel that he has acquitted himself admirably. 

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