"Having despatched his business on shore, he endeavours to elude the populace by taking a bye-way to the beach; but a crowd collected in his train, pressing forward to obtain sight of his face... The sentinels, who endeavour to prevent them from trespassing, were wedged among the crowd...for the people would not be debarred from gazing upon the darling hero of England" Southey. Rather more than a month later he won the Battle of Trafalgar against England’s enemies but died in the very hour of victory’