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A LETTER FROM NELSON’S ADVERSARY IN 'REDOUTABLE', 1806 A LETTER FROM NELSON’S ADVERSARY IN REDOUTABLE, 1806 Capitaine Jean Lucas. Autograph letter signed to the Minister of the Marine and Colonies announcing his arrival at Brest on parole and permission to travel to Paris ‘où j’aurai l’honneur de nous soumettre ma conduite de vive voix les expressions de Ma Reconnaissance’, 2pp., Brest, 14 April 1806 -- 10 x 7¾in. (25 x 20cm.) ‘As the Victory moved on, she became entangled with the Redoutable, whose captain, Jean Lucas, had been gallantly trying to help his comrades, and the two ships drifted away, locked in a deadly close-quarters struggle’, White, The Nelson Encyclopaedia, 2002, p.245. It was from the Redoutable that the fatal shot was fired.