9 records the life of a Scots–American, William Rutherford. Finally, Barry Jolly offers a slightly alternative interpretation of the achievements of John Peyton to that which your editor recorded in Nelson’s Band of Brothers. Entries by Rui Ribolhos and Mark West, The Beach of the English Deadand Russians on the Tagus, remind the reader how unlikely events can coincide upon foreign shores. Two stalwarts of the Trafalgar Chronicle, Anthony Cross and Tony Bruce, have written important articles about technology in Nelson’s time, about ballooning and the tactical advantages of the carronade. Finally, there is a vignette about an obscure battle on the edges of the Caribbean by Michael Harris and, still in those waters, Douglas Hamilton offers a definite biography of black Jack ‘Punch’ Perkins. A friend keeps asking me ‘what more is there to say about Nelson?’ Well, as the richness of these articles and their variety show, there is plenty yet to learn and to write about the life and times of Nelson. For the editor, this means hard choices, and I regret that half a dozen first-class pieces, edited and illustrated, have had to be excluded. These, with permission, will be held over until next year. I am grateful as ever to an informal but effective support team. They include numerous referees who necessarily are unnamed, Peter ‘Galf’ Turner for his advice, illustrations and copy-editing, to Sim Comfort and to Anthony Cross for always being there with a suggestion or two for a new source or an image, and this year too to Professor Nicholas Rodger for an important answer to a query. It has been an honour to be trusted by The 1805 Club as the editor, and I have been pleased to be able to include first-time authors, and to persuade my friends and to cajole others into writing so many fascinating articles about Nelson’s navy. Among other things, the Trafalgar Chronicleis well established as an international journal of excellence, and in this edition there are articles from Britain, Ireland, Portugal and the USA, and subject matter that ranges from the back streets of London to the cays of Honduras and from the steppes of Russia to the shores of Australia. The change to a new team of editors who are based in the USA is a further sign of the internationalisation of the journal. The new team is led by Dr Sean M. Heuvel, faculty member at Christopher Newport University, Newport News, VA, and nobly assisted by Dr Judy Pearson and Captain John Rodgaard USN. This is a powerful combination and their chosen theme for the Trafalgar Chroniclenext year is Nelson and the Georgian Navy as Portrayed in Art, Film and Literature. Contributors are invited to address and analyse the manner in which a particular art form or an artist or a group of artists have portrayed the people, technologies, accomplishments, victories, losses, admiralty, uniforms,
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