TRAFALGAR DAYS
WHEN NEWS GAME SLOWLY. In these days when news of important events, can be flashed round the world in a few seconds by wireless, it is of interest to recall that news of the battle of Trafalgar, the greatest victory in the history of the British navy did not reach the Ad- , miralty Office in London until the sixteenth day after the engagement. It was not until the day after the battle that Vice-Admiral Collingwood who had taken over the command of the British fleet on the death of Nelson, which occurred during the battle, wrote his dispatch to the Admiralty des'cribing the engagment. The dispatch was sent off by Lieutenant Lapenotiere, in command c-f the schooner Pickle, which had played a small part in the battle. The Pickle sailed for Falmouth, and from there Lieutenant Lapenotiere hastened to London, and reached the gates of the Admiralty aib(Out 1.30 a.m., on November 6.
The despatch describing the battle of Waterloo (fought ten years after the battle of Trafalgar), which the Duke of Wellington wrote the morning after the engagement, was sent from Brussels to Earl Bathurst, Minister of War, in charge of one of the Duke’s aides de camp, Major H. Percy who did not reach Lon (ion until nearly 60 hours after his departure from the Belgian capital.
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 59, Issue 4171, 11 August 1939, Page 7
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