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Horatio Nelson

5 July 2005, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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Horatio Nelson

Certificate signed ("Horatio Nelson"), with his right hand, for the court martial of Lieutenant John Johnson for the loss of HM Armed Storeship the Cyrus, held 20-24 April 1786; with part of a receipt dated August 1786 showing through from the verso, one page, cut from the foot of a folio page (145 x 190 mm.), browned, laid-down and with paper-losses, passepartout frame (unexamined out of frame), HMS Boreas, Carlisle Bay, Barbados, 24 April 1786

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The day before, Captain Nelson had written to his wife-to-be: "All the Squadron are now here holding Court-Martials, which will finish tomorrow, when they return to their respective stations, except poor me".

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