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` Instead of having to cope with him weary with waiting , we shall have to encounter This Man fresh from the fields of victory , ' ran the newspaper article . But the week which had led off with such a dreary piping was to end in another key . On the very day when Mack 's army was piling arms at the feet of its conqueror , a blow had been struck by Bob Loveday and his comrades which eternally shattered the enemy 's force by sea . Four days after the receipt of the Austrian news Corporal Tullidge ran into the miller 's house to inform him that on the previous Monday , at eleven in the morning , the Pickle schooner , Lieutenant Lapenotiere , had arrived at Falmouth with despatches from the fleet ; that the stage-coaches on the highway through Wessex to London were chalked with the words ` Great Victory ! ' ` Glorious Triumph ! ' and so on ; and that all the country people were wild to know particulars . On Friday afternoon John arrived with authentic news of the battle off Cape Trafalgar , and the death of Nelson .