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- Frontmatter
- PLATES IN VOLUME XVII. From Original Designs
- PREFACE TO THE SEVENTEENTH VOLUME
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF COMMODORE SIR SAMUEL HOOD, K.B., K.S.F., AND M.P. FOR THE CITY OF WESTMINSTER
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF SIR ROBERT CALDER, BART. VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE LATE SIR FRANCIS GEARY, BART. ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF CAPTAIN RICHARD BUDD VINCENT, THE GALLANT COMMANDER OF THE ARROW SLOOP OF WAR, 1805
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE LATE CAPTAIN JOHN COOKE, WHO FELL IN THE ACTION OFF TRAFALGAR
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR THOMAS MACNAMARA RUSSELL, ESQ. VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE SQUADRON
- INDEX
BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF SIR ROBERT CALDER, BART. VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2011
- Frontmatter
- PLATES IN VOLUME XVII. From Original Designs
- PREFACE TO THE SEVENTEENTH VOLUME
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF COMMODORE SIR SAMUEL HOOD, K.B., K.S.F., AND M.P. FOR THE CITY OF WESTMINSTER
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF SIR ROBERT CALDER, BART. VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE LATE SIR FRANCIS GEARY, BART. ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF CAPTAIN RICHARD BUDD VINCENT, THE GALLANT COMMANDER OF THE ARROW SLOOP OF WAR, 1805
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE LATE CAPTAIN JOHN COOKE, WHO FELL IN THE ACTION OFF TRAFALGAR
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR THOMAS MACNAMARA RUSSELL, ESQ. VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE SQUADRON
- INDEX
Summary
“Now I behold the chiefs, in the pride of their former deeds! Their souls are kindled at the battles of old, and the actions of other times.”
—Ossian.IN attempting to trace the professional life of Sir Robert Calder, we again find ourselves acting under the pressure of circumstances rather delicate than pleasurable. It has ever been our wish to regard the Naval Chronicle as a depository of facts, as a register of honourable and heroic transactions. Without any bias to, or aversion from, political parties, our unremitting endeavours have been, to “speak the plain and simple truth,” to bestow the palm where it may have been deserved, and to render justice to the professional merits of all men. Our opinion strictly accords with the sentiment so often expressed, and inculcated by the late gallant Lord Rodney, “that our naval officers have nothing to do with parties or politics, being simply bound to carry their instructions into execution, to the best of their abilities, without deliberating about men and measures, which forms no part of their duty, and for which they are in no degree responsible.” Under the influence of this opinion, it matters not to us, whether an officer be a whig or a tory, an adherent to the ministry or to the opposition; provided he perform his duty, to his own, and to his country's honour.
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- The Naval ChronicleContaining a General and Biographical History of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom with a Variety of Original Papers on Nautical Subjects, pp. 89 - 176Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1807