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It shows the day on which one of the great Nelson legends was born, that of his refusal to see his commander’s signal to disengage. Here are Geoff Hunt’s own detailed notes on the painting and on Nelson’s least-known battle – and it is a fascinating story:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“This battle contained the famous episode in which Nelson held the telescope to his blind eye, thus refusing to see Admiral Hyde Parker's signal to withdraw. But this scene is from near the beginning of the engagement, just as Nelson's flagship, HMS \u003ci\u003eElephant\u003c\/i\u003e, centre foreground, is taking her place in the line ahead of other ships in his squadron. From the foremast is flying his command flag as Vice-Admiral of the Blue squadron, and from the mizzen his favourite signal, number 16, 'Engage the enemy more closely'. Each ship was ordered to proceed up the line to its assigned place with the leading ships dropping off first, and Nelson made use of a technique ('anchoring by the stern') for stopping rapidly in a desired location, just as he did at the Nile and was to order again at Trinidad in 1805, which entailed dropping an anchor attached to a cable led out through the stern rather than the bow. Here, \u003ci\u003eElephant\u003c\/i\u003e has just dropped her starboard waist anchor in order to pull her up short ahead of the previous arrival (HMS \u003ci\u003eGlatton\u003c\/i\u003e, commanded by the notorious Captain Bligh).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe British ships visible, from left to right, are \u003ci style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', 'serif';\"\u003ePolyphemus, Isis, Edgar, Ardent\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', 'serif';\"\u003eGlatton\u003c\/i\u003e. Others are still arriving, out of view to the left. As they came up they were immediately in hot action with the Danish defensive line, a miscellaneous collection of vessels including the old two-decker flagship \u003ci style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', 'serif';\"\u003eDannebrog, \u003c\/i\u003eCommodore Fischer (at the extreme right), mastless battleships, frigates, small rigged vessels, and large rafts (radeaux) armed with heavy cannon. 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He asked Geoff to immortalise the wonderful Cayman Islands schooners and Geoff was keen to paint and research a subject outside his usual territory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs it transpired, source material of plans, maps and old photographs was surprisingly thin on the ground and difficult to find, being chiefly in local archives, and here the client himself played a most helpful role in finding and supplying such material, including his own photgraphs of \u003cem\u003eGoldfield\u003c\/em\u003e. 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