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Horatio Nelson

1758–1805 · 18th century · Also known as Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, Lord Nelson

Horatio Nelson was a British admiral, the most celebrated naval commander of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. While serving in the West Indies in the 1780s, he married Frances Nisbet on Nevis in 1787. He won the battles of the Nile in 1798 and Copenhagen in 1801, and he was killed at the moment of his greatest victory, over the French and Spanish fleets at Trafalgar on 21 October 1805.

Horatio Nelson
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Denmark-NorwayDeclineKingdom of Great BritainMilitaryUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and IrelandMilitary

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Colony of NevisAnglo-Corsican KingdomFrench occupation of EgyptParthenopean Republic

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