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

BATTLE of Trafalgar naval hero Horatio Nelson treated his lover’s husband to three cases of red wine, a letter has revealed.

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 ...

Trafalgar Day is an annual celebration of British victory over the French and Spanish fleets by the Royal Navy in the 19th ...

Britain’s greatest ever naval hero proved conclusively that Britannia rules the waves… and died in the process, writes Eliot ...

Today, the nation proudly celebrates Trafalgar Day – a day etched into the annals of British history as a testament to our ...

A wreath was laid on Nelson’s flagship HMS Victory as part of the annual Trafalgar Day ceremony at Portsmouth.

How Lord Nelson paid the wine bill of his mistress's husband: Philandering Battle of Trafalgar hero ordered 'three dozen of ...

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The British naval hero was fatally shot during the Battle of Trafalgar, in which the Royal Navy triumphed over the combined forces of France and Spain in 1805. His final moments aboard HMS Victory are ...

The naval commander himself had been killed by a French sniper, and his loyal captain Thomas Hardy was determined to keep a ...

A traditional wreath-laying ceremony was held at Nelson Monument to honour the 220th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar.