Horatio Nelson

Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson (29 September 1758 – 21 October 1805)^[1]^[2] was an British sea captain in the Royal Navy.

Born at the rectory of the village of Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk,^[3]^[4] Nelson commanded the British fleet during the Napoleonic Wars, fighting the French and the Spanish. Nelson was blind in one eye after he had been wounded in battle.^[5]

During the Battle of Trafalgar, his greatest victory, he was killed by a French sniper.

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↑ Horsley, E. M. (1986). Hutchinson Factfinder: Concise Encyclopedia. London: Guild Publishing.
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↑ N.A.M. Rodger, ‘Nelson, Horatio, Viscount Nelson (1758–1805)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press 2004; online edn, May 2009 accessed 5 Oct 2009

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[3] Horsley, E. M. (1986). Hutchinson Factfinder: Concise Encyclopedia. London: Guild Publishing.

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[5] N.A.M. Rodger, ‘Nelson, Horatio, Viscount Nelson (1758–1805)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press 2004; online edn, May 2009 accessed 5 Oct 2009

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