Horatio Nelson: Quick Facts


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Also Known As Viscount Nelson of the Nile and Burnham Thorpe • Baron Nelson of the Nile and Burnham Thorpe • Sir Horatio Nelson
Born September 29, 1758 • England
Died October 21, 1805 (aged 47) • Atlantic Ocean • Spain
Role In Battle of Copenhagen • Battle of Trafalgar • Battle of the Nile • French Revolutionary wars • Napoleonic Wars

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Thomas Babington Macaulay, detail of an oil painting by J. Partridge, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
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