Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronté, KB (29 September 1758 – 21 October 1805) was one of the leading British flag officers in the Royal...
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Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronte KB (29 September [O.S. 18 September] 1758 – 21 October 1805) was a British flag officer...
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Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, was given a state funeral in London on 9 January 1806. It was the first to be held at St Paul's Cathedral...
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Edmund Nelson (19 March 1722 – 26 April 1802) was a British priest who was Rector of Burnham Thorpe in Norfolk and the father of Admiral Horatio Nelson. Nelson...
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Horatio Hornblower is a fictional officer in the British Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, the protagonist of a series of novels and stories by C...
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Catherine Suckling (category Horatio Nelson)
26 December 1767) was the mother of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson. Catherine had eleven children of which Nelson was the third surviving son. Catherine...
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Hood, 1st Viscount Hood (12 December 1724 – 27 January 1816) was an admiral in the Royal Navy. As a junior officer he saw action during the War of the Austrian...
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his victory at the 1797 Battle of Cape St. Vincent, from which he earned his titles, and as a patron of Horatio Nelson. Jervis was also recognised by...
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Trafalgar Day (category Battle of Trafalgar)
celebration of the victory won by the Royal Navy, commanded by Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, over the combined French and Spanish fleets at the Battle of Trafalgar...
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was the 4th son of Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport, by his wife Lady Mary Penelope Hill, a daughter of Arthur Hill, 3rd Marquess of Downshire. Whilst...
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Rear-Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson; they decisively defeated the French under Vice-Admiral François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers, destroying the best of the French...
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Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley, KP, GCB, OM, GCMG, VD, PC (4 June 1833 – 25 March 1913), was an Anglo-Irish officer in the British Army. He became one of the...
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Charles Lock (category Horatio Nelson)
Knight 2007, p. 650 Nelson, Horatio (1846). Nicolas, Nicholas Harris (ed.). The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson. Vol. 6 (May 1804...
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Commissioner of Sheerness Dockyard. During his time there, on 23 December 1805 his official yacht, the Chatham, was used to transfer Horatio Nelson's coffin...
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formidable force of up to 123 ships-of-the-line. The British fleet was under the command of Admiral Hyde Parker, with Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson as second-in-command...
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a cousin of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (1758–1805). He was educated at Homerton College, a constituent college of the University of Cambridge...
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of the Fleet James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier, GCB (13 October 1756 – 19 April 1833) was a Royal Navy officer. After seeing action at the capture of Charleston...
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Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, KG, GCB, PC, FRS (20 October 1784 – 18 October 1865), known as Lord Palmerston, was a British statesman and...
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pp. 98–99 Dull p. 245 Coleman, Terry (2004). The Nelson Touch: The Life and Legend of Horatio Nelson. London, UK: Oxford University Press. p. 32. ISBN 978-0-19-517322-2...
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Trafalgar Square (category Horatio Nelson)
Landseer. At the top of the column is a statue of Horatio Nelson, who commanded the British Navy at the Battle of Trafalgar. Surrounding the square are the...
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Invasion of England. The Story of the Great Terror [1908] (Nonsuch, 2007). Philip Ziegler, Addington. A Life of Henry Addington, First Viscount Sidmouth...
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Robert Blake (admiral) (category Lords Warden of the Cinque Ports)
life of Horatio, Lord Nelson. London & Toronto: J. M. Dent & sons ltd. Spalding, Thomas Alfred (1899). A life of Richard Badiley, vice-admiral of the fleet...
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Home Riggs Popham (category Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath)
Stanier; McArthur, John (1809). The Life and Services of Horatio Viscount Nelson. Vol. 2 vols of 7 vols. London. Clowes, William Laird (1900). The Royal...
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Richard Allott (category Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge)
specifics on plans arising from Allott. Horatio Nelson wrote to Allott in 1804, following the death in 1803 of Allott's brother the Rev. Bryan Allott,...
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Christopher Alexander Hagerman (category Members of the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada)
daughter of Kender Mason of Beel House, Buckinghamshire, the sister of Henry Mason, who married a niece of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson. Two years...
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This was the first military funeral by river since that of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, in 1806. The funeral was attended by the then Prime Minister...
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Haverfordwest (section Freedom of the Town)
have honoured with the Freedom of the Town of Haverfordwest include: Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson: 1802 Admiral Sir Thomas Foley:...
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William IV (redirect from Prince William, Duke of Clarence)
the West Indies under Horatio Nelson, who wrote of William, "in his professional line, he is superior to two-thirds, I am sure, of the [naval] list; and...
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this meant a violation of the Bourbon neutrality treaty with the French. Horatio Nelson would recall Emma's intercession as a fact of vital importance, although...
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English art (redirect from English school of painting)
portrait of Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson; 1797. William Blake's The Ancient of Days, frontispiece to Europe a Prophecy; 1794. Thomas Heaphy's portrait of Palmerston;...
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