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Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronte (29 September [O.S. 18 September] 1758 – 21 October 1805) was a Royal Navy officer whose inspirational leadership, grasp of strategy and unconventional tactics brought about a number of decisive British naval victories during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
Battle or campaign Order of battle Date 1861 Battle of Big Bethel: Confederate Hampton Division and Union Department of Virginia: June 10, 1861 Battle of Hoke's Run: Union Army of the Shenandoah: July 2, 1861 Battle of Carthage (1861) Confederate Missouri State Guard and Union Department of Missouri: July 5, 1861 Battle of Rich Mountain
June 21: Battle of Vitoria; August 15: Siege of Danzig; August 23: Battle of Großbeeren; August 26–27: Battle of Dresden; August 26: Battle of Katzbach; August 27: Battle of Hagelberg; August 29–30: Battle of Kulm; August 31: Battle of San Marcial; September 6: Battle of Dennewitz; September 16: Battle of the Göhrde; September 28: Battle ...
This battle occurred in 1794, during the height of the Age of Sail. This list of naval battles is a chronological list delineating important naval battles that have occurred throughout history, from the beginning of naval warfare with the Hittites in the 12th century BC to piracy off the coast of Somalia in the 21st century. If a battle has no ...
Naval Battles of the Napoleonic Wars. UK: Leonaur. ISBN 978-1846773136. Fremont, Gregory-Barnes (2007). The Royal Navy 1793–1815. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1846031380. Goodwin, Peter (2002). Nelson's Ships: A History of the Vessels in Which He Served 1771–1805. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 978-0851777429. Knight, Roger (2022).
Battle of Long Island (a.k.a. Battle of Brooklyn) – 1776 – American Revolutionary War; Battle of Long Jawai - 1963 - Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation; Battle of Longewala – 1971 – Indo-Pakistani War of 1971; Battle of Loos (see Battle of Artois-Loos) Battle of Lostwithiel (two connected battles) – 1642 and 1644 – English Civil War
The Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife was an amphibious assault by the Royal Navy on the Spanish port city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the Canary Islands.Launched by Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson on 22 July 1797, the assault was defeated, and on 25 July the remains of the landing party withdrew under a truce, having lost several hundred men.
Victors of the Nile - Nelson and the 14 captains at the Nile are depicted in this 1803 engraving, Hardy was still a lieutenant at the time of the battle. "Band of brothers" was a phrase used by Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson to refer to the captains under his command just before and at the Battle of the Nile in 1798. [1]