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January-February: On General [[Wellesley]]'s orders, Laurence leads a party of harnessed and unharnessed dragons in guerrilla raids against the French. Knowing that there are likely to be official inquiries later on as to the legitimacy of this style of warfare, Laurence agrees to cooperate with Wellesley on the condition that the other [[Aerial Corps]] officers under his command will be given ''written'' orders absolving them of any responsibility, while he himself is under verbal orders only. | January-February: On General [[Wellesley]]'s orders, Laurence leads a party of harnessed and unharnessed dragons in guerrilla raids against the French. Knowing that there are likely to be official inquiries later on as to the legitimacy of this style of warfare, Laurence agrees to cooperate with Wellesley on the condition that the other [[Aerial Corps]] officers under his command will be given ''written'' orders absolving them of any responsibility, while he himself is under verbal orders only. | ||
− | March ( | + | March 3(apx): Napoleon and his troops are expelled from Britain at the [[Battle of Shoeburyness]]. Admiral [[Nelson]] is killed and almost all of his fleet destroyed in a tidal wave raised by [[Lung Tien Lien|Lien]] to cover the French retreat. |
April: Nelson's funeral. [[HMS Allegiance]] sails for Australia as a prison ship, carrying Temeraire and Laurence along with other prisoners. Laurence's death sentence has been commuted to transportation and labour in return for his cooperation in getting Temeraire - and Temeraire's political organizing - out of Britain. | April: Nelson's funeral. [[HMS Allegiance]] sails for Australia as a prison ship, carrying Temeraire and Laurence along with other prisoners. Laurence's death sentence has been commuted to transportation and labour in return for his cooperation in getting Temeraire - and Temeraire's political organizing - out of Britain. |