Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscoont Nelson

The Viscount Nelson
Vice Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson, bi Lemuel Francis Abbott
Born29 September 1758
Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, Ingland
Dee'd21 October 1805(1805-10-21) (aged 47)
Battle o Trafalgar, Cape Trafalgar, Spain
AllegianceGreat Breetain
Unitit Kinrick
Breetish Empire
Service/branchRyal Navy
Years o service1771–1805
RankVice-Admiral o the White
Commands heldMediterranean Fleet
Battles/warsAmerican War o Unthirldom
  • Battle o Fort San Juan
  • Battle o Grand Turk

War o the First Coaleetion

  • Siege o Calvi (WIA)
  • Battle o Genoa
  • Battle o Hyères Islands
  • Battle o Cape St Vincent
  • Attack on Cadiz
  • Battle o Santa Cruz de Tenerife (WIA)
  • Battle o the Nile

Kandyan Wars
Fowert Anglo-Mysore War
War o the Seicont Coaleetion

  • Siege o Maltae
  • Battle o Copenhagen
  • Raid on Boulogne

War o the Third Coaleetion

  • Battle o Trafalgar (DOW)
AwairdsKnicht o the Order o the Bath
Several ithers (see ablo)
Signatur

Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscoont Nelson, 1st Duke o Bronté KB (29 September 1758 – 21 October 1805) wis a Breetish flag officer in the Ryal Navy. He wis noted for his inspirational leadership, superb grasp o strategy, an unconventional tactics, that thegither resultit in a nummer o decisive naval veectories, pairteecularly in the Napoleonic Wars. He wis woundit several times in combat, losin the sicht in ane ee in Corsica an maist o ane airm in the unsuccessfu attempt tae conquer Santa Cruz de Tenerife. He wis shot an killed in his feenal veectory at the Battle o Trafalgar in 1805.