Horatio Nelson
Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronte was a British Royal Navy officer whose leadership, grasp of strategy and unconventional tactics led to multiple decisive British naval victories during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Trafalgar Square is dedicated to him. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest admirals in history; many historians consider him the greatest.
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Background
- Born in
- Burnham Thorpe
- Educated at
- Norwich SchoolPaston College
- Awards
- 🏆 Chelengk🏆 Order of the Crescent🏆 Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath🏆 Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Ferdinand and of Merit🏆 Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Joachim
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Trending topics shown first"If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers."
"I cannot, if I am in the field for glory, be kept out of sight. Probably my services may be forgotten by the great, by the time I get Home; but my mind will not forget, nor cease to feel, a degree of …"
"...When he was on the eve of departure for one of his great expeditions the coachmaker said to him, "The carriage shall be at the door punctually at six o clock"; "A quarter before," said Nelson. "I h…"
"It is warm work; and this day may be the last to any of us at a moment. But mark you! I would not be elsewhere for thousands."
"Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat."
":Before this time tomorrow, I shall have gained a peerage or Westminster Abbey."
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1758
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Birth1805
Died
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