611. Nelson: Bonaparte Prepares to Strike (Part 4)

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The hosts quoted John Sugden's assessment of Nelson's defense of the channel: 'despite Boulogne, the end had been creditable. During his watch as the guardian, no hostile foot had stepped on English soil.'

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Roger Knight's biography of Nelson is referenced multiple times, including his observation that Collingwood pointedly didn't visit Nelson at Merton, and his assessment that Nelson felt guilty about his relationship with his father Edmund.

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Andrew Lambert's biography is quoted on Nelson's charisma ('to work with Nelson was to love him') and the remarkable fact that when Nelson returned ashore in October 1801, it was the first time he had ever slept in his own house.