Nelson: admirable lord: Colin White uncovers a more complex and liberal side to Nelson than was previously appreciated.(National Maritime and Royal Naval Museums, the Nelson Letters Project)

From: History Today | Date: July 1, 2005| Author: White, Colin | Copyright information

'The French have made it understood in Sicily as well as in Sardinia that the feudal System and the Oppressive Laws of Vassalage attendant on that system shall be done away with when they take Sicily ... Turn this over in your Enlightened Mind.

Mankind have more enlarged ideas than in former times. I will not say more but that something must be done, or those Countries where the feudal System prevails will be lost.'

THOSE ARE NOT THE WORDS of an English Libera...

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