President’s Foreword Earlier this year we gathered at St Mary the Virgin, Merton, for the funeral of The 1805 Club’s long-standing and charismatic chairman, Peter Warwick. The church was full and the service, which Peter had designed, centred around his many interests and especially his love for Lord Nelson. Peter Warwick will be much missed: it is a tribute to him, and a sign of the life that he breathed into the Club, and his enthusiasm for everything he touched that the Trafalgar Chronicle goes from strength to strength. As a centre of excellence and the goto publication for new research and writing about Admiral Nelson, his life and times, the Trafalgar Chronicle ‘sticks to its last’. It continues to draw in new material and new information about that period, from authors ranging from leading academics to novitiates, and to provide the reader with hours of entertaining reading and much unexpected and interesting knowledge. The American War of Independence separated one English-speaking nation, which by the eighteenth century was firmly established on both sides of the ocean. As is clear from reading this year’s Trafalgar Chronicle, families were divided by their loyalties to the Crown or to the newly proclaimed Republic, yet here too lay the foundation of the special relationship that serves down to this day to the mutual benefit of the USA and the United Kingdom. Ties of language and culture could not be broken by war, and cousinships continued to prosper across the North Atlantic. Therefore, it is appropriate that this year there will be sea-change in the leadership at the Trafalgar Chronicle. The 1805 Club is an international organisation, and the new editors are based in the USA. I wish them every success as the journal enters its third decade. ADMIRALSIRJONATHONBANDGCBDL Former First Sea Lord President of the 1805 Club 5
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