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- The Admiral A Romance of Nelson in the Year of the Nile
- NOTE.
- Preface.
- Contents.
- Prologue.—Introducing the Reader to the Lady Katherine Fleet.
- Chapter I.—Of the finding of Lord Nelson’s Journal.
- Chapter II.—Introducing the Admiral.
- Chapter III.—Of the Letters of a Boy and a Girl.
- Chapter IV.—Of our Entry into Syracuse.
- Chapter V.—In which Will has his first Chance, and his first Escapade, and his first Meeting with the Princess of Favara.
- Chapter VI.—At the Fountain of Cyané and the Papyrus Beds of the Anapo.
- Chapter VII.—Satisfying a Prince’s Honour.
- Chapter VIII.—Of the Battle of the Nile, on the First of August, 1798.
- Chapter IX.—How the Admiral began his friendship with Lady Hamilton.
- Chapter X.—What happened at the Ball given by Lady Hamilton in honour of the Admiral.
- Chapter XI.—How the Admiral entered the maze of Neapolitan Politics.
- Chapter XII.[3]—Of a Visit to Pompeji in 1798, in which there were Lovers, and of the Supper in the Inn at Resina.
- Chapter XIII.—Of the Supper at the Palace that followed.
- Chapter XIV.—What the Admiral wrote of My Lady in his Journal.
- Chapter XV.—Of the Voyage to Malta, with the Account of what happened at Caserta.
- Chapter XVI.—What the Admiral wrote in his Journal about Love.
- Chapter XVII.—Which the Idle Reader may skip, as Politics. It sets forth the Cowardice and unravels the Intrigues which led to the Fall of Naples.
- Chapter XVIII.—How the Neapolitans declared War, and how they waged it.
- Chapter XIX.—How Two Millions and a half of Treasure were smuggled from the Palace to the British Ambassador’s.
- Chapter XX.—How the Vanguard took the Royal Family to Palermo in the greatest Storm The Admiral ever knew.
- Chapter XXI.—How Will was entertained by the Princess at her Palace of the Favara.[7]
- Chapter XXII.—How all Europe was at Sixes and Sevens.
- Chapter XXIII.—Of the Love of the Admiral and My Lady.
- Chapter XXIV.—How the Admiral went to the Favara, and the Prophecy began its Fulfilment.
- Chapter XXV.—How the Admiral took Naples, and of the Hanging of Caracciolo.
- Chapter XXVI.—Of the strange Plight in which Will found Katherine.
- Chapter XXVII.—Of the Death of Donna Rusidda, the Resurrection of Caracciolo, and the Happy Ending.
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