Nelson The Sailor
The misunderstood life & times of Horatio Nelson
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Nelson Loses An Arm
On this day – July 24th, 1797 – Nelson lost his arm. It wasn’t pretty. Read about it here!
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Another Nelson Monument – Norwich Railway Station
These steel figures were erected outside Norwich station in 2013. When the BBC reported on them, their headline was ‘Stephen Fry figure unveiled in Norwich’. Nelson and Edith Cavell were bit-part players.
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Nelson (Almost) Loses An Eye
It was on this day – July 12th – in 1794 that Horatio Nelson suffered lasting damage to his right eye.
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England Expects
England expects. For years, I hated that phrase. Find out why.
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A Street Cat Named Nelson (Churchill & Nelson – part 1)
The charming story of an unlikely friendship.
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