The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson
Having entered the British Navy at the age of twelve, Horatio Lord Nelson achieved the rank of captain at the age of twenty. As captain, he was quickly recognized as a magnetic and controversial figure. He triumphed at Cape St. Vincent and the Nile, but failed at Tenefife and Boulogne. With the glories of Copenhagen and Trafalgar yet ahead of him, his ardent passion for Emma Hamilton, the wife of a British Ambassador, cast a heavy shadow over his career. Audacious in battle (he once ignored a superior's order to cease action at Copenhagen by putting his telescope to his blind eye and saying he could not see the signal) and winner of some of Britain's greatest victories, Nelson possessed an extraordinary amount of dash and courage, thus rendering him one of history's great romantic figures.
Chapter I
Many Lives of Nelson have been written; one is yet wanting, clear and concise enough to become a ...
Chapter II
1784 - 1793 Nelson goes to France—Reappointed to the Boreas at the Leeward Islands in the Boreas...
Chapter III
1793 - 1795 The Agamemnon sent to the Mediterranean —Commencement of Nelson's Aquaintance with S...
Chapter IV
1796 - 1797 Sir J. Jervis takes the Command—Genoa joins the French—Bounaparte begins his Career—...
Chapter V
1798 Nelson rejoins Earl St. Vincent in the Vanguard—Sails in Pursuit of the French in Egypt—Ret...
Chapter VI
1798 - 1800 Nelson returns to Naples—State of that Court and Kingdom—General Mack—The French app...
Chapter VII
1800 - 1801 Nelson separates himself from his Wife—Northern Confederacy—He goes to the Baltic, u...
Chapter VIII
1801 - 1805 Sir Hyde Parker is recalled and Nelson appointed Commander—He goes to Revel—Settleme...
Chapter IX
1805 Sir Robert Calder falls in with the combined Fleets—They form a Junction with the Ferrol Sq...