. An English history with illustrations and maps/ by Symes ; adapted for use in Canadian elementary schools by George M. Wrong. sh her once for all. His plan wasvery simple. The united French and i^panish fleets were tosail away to the West Indies. Nelson, it was supposed,would follow to attack them. Then the fleets were to doubleback and defeat the few English ships, still on guard in theChannel, before Nelson could overtake them. Napoleon andhis soldiers would thus have more than the six hours theyrequired to cross from Boulogne and land in England. The scheme succeeded in part. Nelson
. An English history with illustrations and maps/ by Symes ; adapted for use in Canadian elementary schools by George M. Wrong. sh her once for all. His plan wasvery simple. The united French and i^panish fleets were tosail away to the West Indies. Nelson, it was supposed,would follow to attack them. Then the fleets were to doubleback and defeat the few English ships, still on guard in theChannel, before Nelson could overtake them. Napoleon andhis soldiers would thus have more than the six hours theyrequired to cross from Boulogne and land in England. The scheme succeeded in part. Nelson followed the French across the Atlantic, and, not finding them inAt Trafalgar ^ ® Britain wins ^^^^ West Indies, started back, thirty days final command behind them. But he had taken care to send of the sea and -et. \.- ^ ^i t-. t i invasion is ^ swirt ship to warn the English government, made and, when the French vessels arrived off Brest. they found their course blocked by a second English fleet hastily sent out to meet them. Instead of being able to sail up the Channel to Boulogne, where Napoleon and 242 AN ENGLISH HISTORY. THE GREAT WAR, 1793-1815 243 his men were anxiously awaiting him, the Frencli admiralhad to make for tlie slielter of Cadiz. Nelson, meanwhile,arrived from the West Indies, and, at length, he forced thecombined !^rencli and Spanish fleets to give battle in TrafalgarBay. In that sea fight the great English Admiral destroyedboth fleets and put Britain in such a position that, since then,she has been supreme on the seas. But the victory wasdearly won, for Nelson died at Trafalgar, A few monthslater England lost, too, her great minister. Pitt died in on the sea. Napoleon w;is still all-powerful onThe Peninsula The Austrians and the Prussians heWar. utterly defeated. He ruled Italy, and he made an alliance with Russia. Master of the continent, he plannednow to Iuin Britain by destroying her trade with Berlin Decree, issued in 1
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