Born on 29 September 1758 in Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, Horatio Nelson was the ... Earlier that same year, Nelson was promoted to vice-admiral. Over the period 1794 to 1805, under Nelson's ...

The Abbey collection contains one of the best likenesses of the great Admiral, Horatio, Viscount Nelson, who died at the battle of Trafalgar (off the south coast of Spain) on 21st October 1805. This ...

The key to British survival would be to prevent the French and Spanish navies joining forces - so when British Admiral Jervis ... commander - Commodore Horatio Nelson - who would soon emerge ...

Horatio Nelson was born in Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, and was the sixth child of the Reverend Edmund Nelson and his wife Catherine A brooch containing a lock of Lord Nelson's hair that was given to ...

At the height of the French Revolutionary War, a new alliance between France and Spain threatened to overturn British naval ...

The locks of hair from Lord Nelson are kept in paper packets Three locks of Admiral Lord Nelson's hair ... Nelson was a British naval commander who became a national hero for his victories against ...

A special coin will be minted for the Falkland Islands to commemorate the bicentenary in October next year of the Battle of Trafalgar and the death in the battle of Admiral Horatio Nelson ...