...Hamilton, through whose friendship he had been enabled to provision his fleet at Syracuse in 1798 — " Thanks to your exertions we have victualled and watered ; and surely, watering at the fountain t'f Arrthusa, ,ce tnuct have victory" first heard of Mycale, of Salamis, and of Actium, yet who shall...

...was still full of hope. " Thanks toi your exertions," said he, writing to Sir W. and Lady Hamilton, "we have victualled and watered; and surely watering...Arethusa, we must have victory. We shall sail with Ihe first breeze ; and be assured I will return either crowned with laurel, or covered with cypress."...

...HAMILTON. [From Ilnrrisou'a " Life of Nelsou," vol. ip 2!Mi.] ••••2nd Jnly, 1798. My dear Friends, Thanks to your exertions, we have victualled and watered...either crowned with laurel, or covered with cypress. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON, KB [From a Copy in the Admiralty.] Vanguard, Syracuse,...

...have victualled and watered : and sqrely watering at the Fountain of Arethusa, we must haw/victory. We shall sail with the first breeze, and be assured I will return either crowned with_ laurel, or covered -with cypress. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON, KB [From a Cujiy...

...body of persons have been on board to offer me civilities.'' To Sir William and l.ady Hamilton :— " Thanks to your exertions, we have victualled and watered...either crowned with laurel or covered with cypress." 1 " 22nd July, 1798. " My dear Friends, To reconcile these we must refer to Nelson's letter to the...

...civilities.'" To Sir William and Lady Hamilton : — " 22nd July. 1798. '' My dear Friends, "Thanks lo your exertions, we have victualled and watered ; and...return either crowned with laurel or covered with cypress."i To reconcile these we must refer to Nelson's letter to the Earl of St. Vincent of the 20th,...

...watered in a few days.'—EMMA HAMILTON.'' On the 22nd Nelson wrote to Sir William and Lady Hamilton, " Thanks to your exertions, we have victualled and watered:...Arethusa, we must have victory. We shall sail with the firs! breeze, and be assured I will return either crowned with laurel, or covered with cypress." 1...

...in the glorious battle of the Nile. In a letter written from Syracuse to Lady Hamilton, he says : " We have victualled and watered ; and surely, watering at the Fountain of Arethusa, we must have victory."f Outside the walls, and about thirty yards from the fountain of Arethusa, is another curious...

...the Sicilian Governors. " Thanks to your exertions " — thus writes Nelson to the Hamiltons — " we have victualled and watered ; and surely, watering...either crowned with laurel or covered with cypress." To his chief, Earl St. Vincent, he wrote also, and bade him be convinced that if the French were above...

...on his way to the Nile and victory. " We have victualled and watered," wrote he to Lady Hamilton ; " and surely, watering at the Fountain of Arethusa, we must have victory." The fountain has very recently been taken under the protection of tlio authorities. The bare - legged...