Tom Pocock
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Special writer, Evening Standard(London),1982β88; Defense Correspondent, 1960β73; Travel Editor, 1973β82. Author of Nelson and His World; Horatio Nelson; and others.
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Horatio Nelson was a British naval commander in the wars with Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, who won crucial victories in such battles as those of the Nile (1798) and of Trafalgar (1805), where he was killed by enemy fire on the HMS Victory. In private life he was known for his extended loveβ¦
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