Politiques de l'histoire du monde et de leur grand réalisations . L'amiral Hotham en dehors de Toulon. Dans les deux, les Français ont été defeatedwith quelques pertes, mais on leur a permis de s'échapper, et Nelson dans son privateletters a exprimé une opinion en colère que plus pourrait et devrait ontété fait. 128 l'amiral Lord Nelson. lu l'automne de 1795 Hotham fut remplacé par sir John Jervis, et au cours de l'ensemble de 1796, le blocus de Toulon plus wasenforced, Nelson étant pour la plupart, comme les années précédentes, avec un petit escadron dans le Golfe de Gênes, où il a mis un terme à toutes les coastingtraffic, et a commandé le

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Makers of the world's history and their grand achievements . Admiral Hotham outside Toulon. In both, the French were defeatedwith some loss, but they were allowed to escape, and Nelson in his privateletters expressed an angry opinion that more might and ought to havebeen done. 128 ADMIRAL LORD NELSON. lu the autumn of 1795 Hotham was succeeded by Sir John Jervis, and during the whole of 1796 the strictest blockade of Toulon wasenforced, Nelson being for the most part, as in preceding years, with asmall squadron in the Gulf of Genoa, where he put a stop to all coastingtraffic, and commanded the road along the shore so completely as towarrant his assertion that, had he had an adequate force, the invasion of. 1LV ijK IHL CII V or LISIJON. Italy would have been impossible. Towards the close of the year Spainconcluded a treat} of alliance with France, and sent her fleet into theMediterranean to co-operate with the French. Jervis thus found himselfopposed by verj^ superior forces ; and, with Spain and Italy both inhostile hands, his position was no longer tenable. He withdrew thetroops from Corsica, and retired to Gibraltar, and afterwards to Lisbon.He was, however, determined that the Spanish fleet, which had been ADMIRAL LORD NELSON. 129 instructed to join the French at Brest, should not pass ; and, on itsendeavoring to do so, met it off Cape St. Vincent on February 14th 1797, and inflicted on it a signal defeat. This was rendered more decisive by the action of Nelson, who, having been appointed commodore, with his broad pennant on board the

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