HORATIO NELSON AND THE NAVAL SUPREMACY OF ENGLAND. By W. CLARK RUSSELL, with the collaboration of WILLIAM H. JAQUES. Heroes of the Nations Series. New-York and London: G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS. 1890.

Veteran British historian Coleman (Going to America) now tackles the life of Horatio Nelson, Britain's most celebrated naval hero. Admiral Nelson (1758–1805), whose glory was sealed with his ...

Adm. Horatio Nelson became a national idol after smashing Napoleon's fleet in the 1798 Battle of the Nile. Killed in the victory at Trafalgar in 1805, he became England's greatest naval hero.

Born on 29 September 1758 in Norfolk, Horatio Nelson was the sixth of the 11 children of a clergyman, the BBC reports. “He joined the navy aged 12, on a ship commanded by a maternal uncle.

British naval hero Adm. Horatio Nelson did not wear a patch to hide his blind right eye, according to new evidence that blows out of the water a myth dating from the mid-19th century that was ...