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 ...

Former Portsmouth MP and defence secretary Penny Mordaunt, who is also a Royal Navy reservist, has previously said that the Royal Navy and its partners must keep pace with the growing capabilities of ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...