Horatio Nelson

Biography

Horatio Nelson was born with Burnham Thorpe in the Norfolk from the Reverend Edmund Nelson and Catherine Suckling Nelson. Wire of good family, her mother, whom it lost at the nine years age, was the small-niece of Lord Robert Walpole, considered as the first Prime Minister of England.

He learned navigation with Barton Broad, and as of the 12 years age, he had engaged in the Royal Navy. Its career began on January 1st 1771, when it became suction on the man-of-war Reasonable , ordered by his/her maternal uncle. In 1777, he was lieutenant, assigned with the the Caribbean ( West Indies ), period during which he took part in the Guerre of independence of the United States of America in the British camp. As of the 20 years age, in June 1779, it is named captain; the frigate Hitchenbroke was its first command.

It lost its right eye with the Bataille of Calvi in 1794, and its right-hand man with Tenerife in 1797.

The 1798, the French squadron of the forwarding of Egypt is surprised with bay damping of Aboukir by the fleet of Nelson. The battle is appalling and, in spite of the balance of the forces and an often higher material, engagement turns to the disaster for the French. Only two vessels manage to escape. The battle will be decisive for the continuation of forwarding. Deprived of its fleet, the army of the East will remain captive of Egypt.

It is especially famous, in particular for its fellow-citizens of which there remains a hero present in the memory, for its participation in the Bataille of Trafalgar, where the British fleet opposes a coalition free - Spanish. Whereas the fleet that it order is lower of number than that of its adversaries, she manages to break the line, which gives him a decisive victory.

It however leaves the life during the combat. Combatant, like wanted it the tradition, with his dress of vice-admiral (it refused to give up it in spite of the request of its seconds), it was easily identified by a gunner (the Cartigny sailor) located in the top of the Redoutable . Mortally reached, it continued nevertheless to give its orders until the end of the battle. Its skin was brought back to England in a barrel of Brandy in order to preserve it. It was buried in the Cathédrale Saint-Paul in London at the end of national funeral.

Its statue on a column (of or it can " voir" the sea) dominates the Trafalgar Square in the center of London and its ship-admiral, the HMS Victory , the oldest ship installed in the world, is always accessible to the public in roads from Portsmouth.

Anecdotes

Whereas it was not that suction it fell, at the time of a descent with ground in the Arctic, on a polar bear and started to threaten it of its rifle. The captain made draw with the gun making flee the bear and putting a term at a combat at the conclusion more than doubtful… Of return on board, Nelson reproached its gesture to the captain saying that he wanted to bring back the skin of the animal to his father.
Whereas he was captain of Navy, Nelson belonged to the judges of the martial court before which certain mutineers of the Bounty appeared.
According to certain sources, at the time of the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801, it would have received the order of its superiors to beat a retreat, but it would have then placed its glasses on its one-eyed eye and would have answered its men “I do not see the message” ( I don' T see the message ).
According to various sources, it would have required of an officer named Hardy to embrace it (“ KIS me, Hardy ”), right before dying.
According to other sources, its last words would have been: “ With drinking! ”.
the second statue in its honor, in importance, is with Montreal, the Quebec, whereas it posed forever the foot with Montreal, it came however to Quebec in its youth. It was built before that of London.
With the Darts, a score of 111 is called a nelson in reference to the admiral who had illustrated himself in many battles so that it did not remain to him, according to the legend, than a arm, a eye and a Testicule.
a plane of the type North American AT-6 (dating from the second world war) is in serice within South African Air Force since forty years, are registration ends in 111 and is baptized Nelson, as well in the honor of the score to the darts as because it was broken seriously a dozen time and always given in service and in-flight status, like the admiral Nelson

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