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The Nelson Touch: The Life and Legend of Horatio Nelson. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195147414. Fairburn, John (1806). The Funeral of Admiral Lord Nelson (Second ed.). London: John Fairburn. Knight, Roger (2005). The Pursuit of Victory: The Life and Achievement of Horatio Nelson. New York NY: Allen Lane. ISBN 978-0713996197.
Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronte (29 September [O.S. 18 September] 1758 – 21 October 1805) was a Royal Navy officer whose inspirational leadership, grasp of strategy and unconventional tactics brought about a number of decisive British naval victories during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
England's Pride and Glory, an 1894 painting by Thomas Davidson.A young naval cadet is shown Lemuel Francis Abbott's portrait of Nelson to inspire him.. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronté, KB (29 September 1758 – 21 October 1805) was one of the leading British flag officers in the Royal Navy of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, responsible for several ...
Beatty then attended Nelson's state funeral in London. [18] Victory was decommissioned in January 1806, and Beatty was posted as surgeon-in-charge of Sussex, the former HMS Union and now a hospital ship at Sheerness. There, he wrote his Authentic Narrative of the Death of Lord Nelson, which was eventually published in early 1807. [19]
The Life of Nelson is an 1809 two-volume biography written by James Stanier Clarke and John McArthur. Published in London by Cadell and Davies , it charts the life of the British Admiral Horatio Nelson from birth to his death during his greatest victory at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. [ 1 ]
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The first large monument to Nelson was the 43.5 m (143 ft) tall Nelson Monument on Glasgow Green.Funded by public subscription, its foundation stone was laid on 1 August 1806, [1] and it was finished on 7 August 1807. [2]