Shortly before 1am on November 6 1805, Lt John Lapenotière reached the Admiralty in Whitehall in a post-chaise, just beating a rival officer. They had the same mission: to bring news of the Royal ...

In April 1801, Britain faced a dangerous coalition in the Baltic. Denmark, Russia, Sweden, and Prussia had formed the League of Armed Neutrality — threatening Britain’s naval dominance. Vice Admiral ...

VICTORY: THE LIFE OF LORD NELSON (393 pp.)—Oliver Warner—Atlantic-Little, Brown ($6.50). A Lord Nelson is the name given in Royal Navy wardrooms to a poker hand containing three Jacks. In the British ...

They sank 18 ships with losses of nearly 4,000 men while losing just one British ship with a loss of 58 men. That they were able to do so was down to Nelson’s tactics and the superior gunnery of the ...

Lord Horatio Nelson was England’s most celebrated soldier, the Admiral who defeated Napoleon’s navy at the Battle of Trafalgar on October 21, 1805. He was a brilliant, brave and admired naval ...

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Worshipped as a national savior, Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson masterminded the naval victories that thwarted Napoleon's plans to invade Britain. Yet, in the midst of public adulation, rumors swirled ...

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