Before Nelson, no decisive blow was made against ... Unlike the French, the British Navy was well stocked with talent from top to bottom. It is commonly said that this is because Britain was ...

Nelson's Caribbean Hellhole: An 18th-Century Navy Graveyard Uncovered Sam Willis explores how the Caribbean sugar islands were a kind of hell in Nelson's time. BBC Four ...

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

PAINTINGS of Lord Nelson have been taken down from Parliament and replaced with Labour figures including Yvette Cooper in a woke purge of historical figures. Two portraits of the British naval ...

The British Navy—which was made great, according to one Winston Churchill, by “rum, sodomy and the lash”—led by Lord Admiral Horatio Nelson defeated the combined fleets of the Spaniards ...

Great Britain gave the world Admiral Viscount Horatio Nelson ... flagship of the British fleet, and the role she played in the Falklands War. Back then we had a robust Royal Navy which is why ...