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His father was Spratt Esq., of Ballybeg, near Mitcheltown and his brother-in-law was John Abel Ward, Esq., a judge in the Admiralty Court in Nevis. [3] After some years in the merchant service, he joined the navy as a first class volunteer. He was promoted midshipman in 1798 aboard HMS Bellona and he was at the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801. [4]
Horatio Hornblower is a fictional officer in the British Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, the protagonist of a series of novels and stories by C. S. Forester.He later became the subject of films and radio and television programmes, and C. Northcote Parkinson elaborated a "biography" of him, The True Story of Horatio Hornblower.
Bucentaure was an 86-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, and the lead ship of her class.She was the flagship of Vice-Admiral Latouche Tréville, who died on board on 18 August 1804, and later of Vice-Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve as the flagship of the Franco-Spanish fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar.
This is a list of public art in and around Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, London. Charing Cross , at the junction of Strand and Whitehall , was the site of the first public monument in what is now the City of Westminster, [ 1 ] the cross commissioned by Edward I late in the 13th century in memory of his queen, Eleanor of Castile .
The Battle of Trafalgar is an 1836 history painting by the British artist Clarkson Stanfield. [1] It depicts the 1805 naval Battle of Trafalgar in which the Royal Navy led by Horatio Nelson defeated a combined Franco-Spanish fleet during the Napoleonic Wars .
HMS Revenge was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 13 April 1805.Sir John Henslow designed her as one of the large class 74s; she was the only ship built to her draught.
The rest of the car was ornamented allegorical figures, heraldic emblems, ostrich feathers and the name "Trafalgar" boldly displayed. A naval ensign flew at half mast above. As the funeral car emerged through the Admiralty gates, the embroidered velvet pall which had covered the coffin was pulled aside "at the earnest request" of the large ...
The statue of General Havelock in Trafalgar Square, London. There is a statue of Havelock (by William Behnes) in Trafalgar Square, London. The plaque on the plinth reads: To Major General Sir Henry Havelock KCB and his brave companions in arms during the campaign in India 1857. "Soldiers!