At 11.45am, on Oct 21, 220 years ago, Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson ordered the most famous military message ever sent to be ...

Horatio Nelson was born in the quiet west Norfolk village of Burnham Thorpe on September 29 1758, one of 11 children born to Edmund and Catherine Nelson. Edmund was the Rector of All Saints Church in ...

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 ...

Tales that Lord Nelson's crew drank the brandy his body was preserved in were probably unture, Nick Ball said [Getty Images] With the Battle of Trafalgar won but the country's great naval leader ...

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 ...

Reflective Royal Navy sailors conducted a glorious ceremony to remember the 220th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar.