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APIAIN ATCHERLEY LEAVING THE BU ENTACRE WITH ADMIRAL VILLENEUVE.
From "Trafalgar," by Irw.n Be van. By permission of the Religious Tract Soc.
CHAPTER XVI.

THE ROYAL MARINES AT TRAFALGAR, 1805.

The dogs of war are loose upon the sea!

The mastiff bark and growl of guns proclaim

A mighty contest where, high in the lee

Of Cape Trafalgar, smoke walls stabbed with filame
Darken the autumn day.

Lifting and falling with the sou'-west swell
Their royal-masts sweeping arcs across the sky,

A muffled tocsin booting from each hell,
The fleets of France and Spain and England he
At death grips in the bay.

The yellow gloom with exultation rings,
As British broadside answers alien,
Each cannonade its added hell-note brings
Of rending timber and the screams of men."
-Lt.-Col. W. P. Drury, R.M.L.I
LTHOUGH details of the special performances of t
Marines at the famous Battle of Trafalgar a.e
necessarily few and far between, this memorab
engagement in which no less than 92 officers and 3, o
rank and file did yeoman service deserves a chapte
to itself. Fortunately, an officer of the Corps w
served on board the 64-gun ship Belleisle has left a
record of the way in which the events of that momentous
day presented themselves to him, and we therefore
have the opportunity of seeing the fight through the
eyes of a Marine. A few other incidents and acts et

ensule worn by Captain Adair, R M.

Sahssima Trinidada which killed eight Marines on board H.M.S. Victory.

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THE ROYAL MINES AT TRAFALGAR, 1805.

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A muffled tocsin booming from each bell,
The fleets of France and Spain and England lie
At death grips in the bay.

The yellow gloom with exultation rings,
As British broadside answers alien,
Each cannonade its added hell-note brings
Of rending timber and the screams of men."

-Lt. Col. W. P. Drury, R.M.L L

LTHOUGH details of the special performances of the Marines at the famous Battle of Trafalgar a necessarily few and far between, this memorat engagement in which no less than 92 officers and 3,60 rank and file did yeoman service deserves a chapt to itself. Fortunately, an officer of the Corps w served on board the 64-gun ship Belleisle has left a record of the way in which the events of that moment us day presented themselves to him, and we therefore have the opportunity of seeing the fight through the eyes of a Marine. A few other incidents and acts:

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