tnote 84:
Camperdown 825 loss out of 8,221: 10 per cent.
The Nile 896 " " 7,401: 12.1 "
Copenhagen 941 " " 6,892: 13.75 "
_Trafalgar_ 1,690 " " 17,256: 9.73 " ]

[Footnote 85:
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| | | | | | Trafalgar |
| Ship | Action |Killed|Wounded|Total|--------------------|
| | | | | |Killed|Wounded|Total|
|----------------------------------------------------------------------|
|_Ajax_ | Rodney's | 9 | 10 | 19 | 2 | 9 | 11 |
| |(Ap. 12, 1782)| | | | | | |
|_Agamemnon_ | " | 15 | 22 | 37 | 2 | 8 | 10 |
|_Conqueror_ | " | 7 | 22 | 29 | 3 | 9 | 12 |
|_Defence_ | 1st June | 17 | 36 | 53 | 7 | 29 | 36 |
|_Bellerophon_| The Nile | 49 | 148 | 197 | 27 | 123 | 150 |
|_Swiftsure_ | " | 7 | 22 | 29 | 9 | 8 | 17 |
|_Defiance_ | Copenhagen | 24 | 21 | 45 | 17 | 53 | 70 |
|_Polyphemus_ | " | 6 | 25 | 31 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
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[In only one case was the Trafalgar total loss greater than the
total loss of the same ship in an earlier fight; and in this
case (the _Defiance_) the number of killed at Trafalgar was only
about two-thirds of the number killed in the other action.]

It is now necessary to investigate the statement that Nelson,
hastily and without warning, changed his plan for fighting the
battle. This investigation is much more difficult than that into
the losses of the British fleet, because, whilst the latter can
be settled by arithmetic, the former must proceed largely upon
conjecture. How desirable it is to make the investigation of
the statement mentioned will be manifest when we reflect on the
curious fact that the very completeness of Nelson's success at
Trafalgar checked, or, indeed, virtually destroyed, the study
of tactics in the British Navy for more than three-quarters of
a century. His action was so misunderstood, or, at any rate,
so variously represented, that it generally passed for gospel
in our service that Nelson's method consisted merely in rushing
at his enemy as soon as he saw him. Against this co