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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.
English: The uniform coat worn by Vice Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar, on display at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England. This view of the coat shows the bullet hole in the left shoulder from the sharpshooter's bullet which killed Nelson, as well as the decorations on the left breast and the insignia on the epaulette.
English: Coat of arms of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson ink on vellum Finely illuminated and heightened in gilt, subscribed with Nelson's titles and honours, one vellum membrane (435 x 375mm), signed and dated by George Nayler as Blane Coursier Herald and Genealogist of the Order of the Bath
The first civic monument to be erected in Nelson's honour was the Nelson Monument, a 44-metre high obelisk on Glasgow Green in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1806. Also in Scotland, the foundation stone for Nelson's Tower at Forres in Moray was laid in 1806 and it was completed in 1812; [ 34 ] while the Nelson Monument stands on top of Calton Hill ...
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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.
England's Pride and Glory, an 1894 painting by Thomas Davidson.A young naval cadet is shown Lemuel Francis Abbott's portrait of Nelson to inspire him.. 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 Navy of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, responsible for several ...
The Death of Nelson, 21 October 1805 is an 1807 painting by Arthur William Devis portraying the death of Horatio Nelson at 16:30 on 21 October 1805, below decks on his flagship HMS Victory during the Battle of Trafalgar. It is the collection of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.