The Tip of the Spear: Captain Henry Hotham and the blockade of Brest and L’Orient

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Acknowledgements

Hull History Centre documents DDHO/ x1/7/57, DDHO/x1/7/58 and DDHO/x1/7/77 are used with kind permission of Lord Hotham.

Notes

1 Hull History Centre (hereafter HHC) DDHO/x1/7/77 Statements of Service, Henry Hotham

2 HHC DDHO/x1/7/57, Diary 1810

3 HHC DDHO/x1/7/58, Diary 1811

4 Ibid.

5 Ibid.

6 The National Archives, Kew (hereafter TNA) ADM 50/82, Admirals journals, Sir Harry Neale.

7 Ibid.

8 Marcus, Naval History of England, vol. 2, 363.

9 HHC DDHO/x1/7/57, Diary 1810.

10 TNA ADM 51/2608, HMS Northumberland Log Book.

11 HHC DDHO/x1/7/57, Diary 1810.

12 TNA ADM 37/2156, HMS Northumberland Muster Book.

13 TNA ADM 51/2608, HMS Northumberland Log Book.

14 TNA ADM 1/146, Letters from Flag Officers Channel Fleet.

15 HHC DDHO/x1/7/57, Diary 1810.

16 TNA ADM 51/2608, HMS Northumberland Log Book.

17 TNA ADM 1/146, Letters from Flag Officers Channel Fleet

18 TNA ADM 50/82, Admirals journals, Sir Harry Neale.

19 HHC DDHO/x1/7/57, Diary 1810

20 Ibid.

21 HHC DDHO/x1/7/58, Diary 1811.

22 Ibid.

23 Ibid.

24 TNA ADM 50/82, Admirals journals, Sir Harry Neale.

25 TNA ADM 1/146, Letters from Flag Officers Channel Fleet.

26 Ibid.

27 TNA ADM 50/82, Admirals journals, Sir Harry Neale.

28 TNA ADM 51/2608, HMS Northumberland Log Book.

29 TNA ADM 1/146, Letters from Flag Officers Channel Fleet.

30 Ibid.

31 Ibid.

32 Ibid.

33 HHC DDHO/x1/7/58, Diary 1811.

34 TNA ADM 1/146, Letters from Flag Officers Channel Fleet.

35 HHC DDHO/x1/7/58, Diary 1811; TNA ADM 50/82, Admirals journals, Sir Harry Neale.

36 TNA ADM 1/146, Letters from Flag Officers Channel Fleet.

37 TNA ADM 1/1943 Letters from Captains

38 Ibid.

39 TNA ADM 1/146, Letters from Flag Officers Channel Fleet

40 Winfield, British Warships, 29.

41 TNA ADM 50/82, Admirals journals, Sir Harry Neale.

42 Ibid.

43 HHC DDHO/x1/7/58, Diary 1811; TNA ADM 50/82, Admirals journals, Sir Harry Neale.

44 TNA ADM 1/146, Letters from Flag Officers Channel Fleet.

45 Ibid.

46 HHC DDHO/x1/7/58, Diary 1811.