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NELSON, Horatio, Viscount (1758-1805). Document signed ('Nelson & Bronte'), an order to Captain [George] McKinley of H.M.S. Ardent, St George in Kioge Bay, 15 June 1801, 'You are to receive on board his Majesty's Ship you Command, the man named in the margin [James Gordon], for a passage to England, having been discharged from the Service, from H.M. Ship Alkmaar', one page, 205 x 198mm , address panel ('Ardent'), docketed on verso.
NELSON, Horatio, Viscount (1758-1805). Document signed ('Nelson & Bronte'), an order to Captain [George] McKinley of H.M.S. Ardent, St George in Kioge Bay, 15 June 1801, 'You are to receive on board his Majesty's Ship you Command, the man named in the margin [James Gordon], for a passage to England, having been discharged from the Service, from H.M. Ship Alkmaar', one page, 205 x 198mm , address panel ('Ardent'), docketed on verso. Nelson had taken over command of the Baltic fleet from Sir Hyde Parker on 6 May. For the archive of George McKinley, who went on to become Admiral of the Blue, see lot 94.