ON October 21 1805 the British fleet of 27 ships of the line led by Horatio Nelson on HMS Victory met the 33 ships of the ...

In 1798, Napoleon Bonaparte seemed unstoppable after conquering Egypt—until Admiral Horatio Nelson struck. The Battle of the ...

Veteran British historian Coleman (Going to America) now tackles the life of Horatio Nelson, Britain's most celebrated naval hero. Admiral Nelson (1758–1805), whose glory was sealed with his death at ...

Eurocentric history has, for the most part, remembered Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson as a courageous and astute naval commander. Statuary honouring his accomplishments can be seen around the world, from ...

Adm. Horatio Nelson became a national idol after smashing Napoleon's fleet in the 1798 Battle of the Nile. Killed in the victory at Trafalgar in 1805, he became England's greatest naval hero. The 200 ...

We may know that Horatio Nelson was a famous British naval officer who achieved a number of glorious victories against his French enemies in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It may ...

A letter by a miserable Admiral Lord Nelson highlighting his hopeless situation after he let the French fleet out of his sight in the build up to Trafalgar has emerged for the first time. Britain’s ...

A renowned beauty, famous courtesan, and lover of British naval hero Lord Horatio Nelson, Lady Emma Hamilton was one of the biggest celebrities of her day. Now, more than 200 years after she died in ...