Note 15 — Chapter II · JOHN LANGAN, THE IRISH CHAMPION—1819–1824.

Our friend the historian of “Boxiana,” here makes a sad mess of it. The Victory was not at Aboukir Bay at all; Nelson’s ship at the battle of the Nile (Aboukir) was the Vanguard. Every schoolboy knows the hero died off the coast of Spain, about sixty miles west of Cadiz, October 21, 1805, after the “crowning victory” off Cape Trafalgar.—Ed. Pugilistica.