NOUN
- English admiral who defeated the French fleets of Napoleon but was mortally wounded at Trafalgar (1758-1805)
How To Use Horatio Nelson In A Sentence
- He earned the respect and friendship of one of the assisting naval officers, a certain Horatio Nelson (who later testified at his trial), and his name was gazetted in the official published reports.
- Horatio Nelson was a flawed, fallible man; he was also a copper-bottomed, full-rigged, 104-gun hero.
- This is equally famous for its statue of Horatio Nelson and its pigeon.
- British admiral Horatio Nelson destroyed the French fleet anchored in the harbor of Abukir. 1797-1801
- As a boy, I thrilled to the glorious adventures of Britain's sailors, such as Sir Francis Drake, the renowned admirals Anson and Howe, and the great Sir Horatio Nelson, whose name will live forever in naval glory. Eric Margolis: BRITAIN MAY PULL THE PLUG ON THE ROYAL NAVY
- That battle secured for Jervis a peerage (as Earl of St. Vincent — Cape Jervis and the Gulf of St. Vincent were both named after him), but it also made the reputation of Captain Horatio Nelson of H.M.S. Captain. Archive 2009-03-01
- LEGEND has it that Lord Horatio Nelson and his little bit of yo ho ho, Lady Hamilton, used Parkgate as the base for their illicit bouts of extra-marital rumpo. IcCheshireOnline
- The bicentennial anniversary of the battle is coming up later this year, be sure to take a measure of grog and toast Horatio Nelson on the day of the battle - October 21st.
- Napoleonic Wars hero Horatio Nelson 1758–1805 once owned one of the items, a faux tortoise-shell snuffbox depicting a scene from a seaside Italian town on its lid. The Tchotchkes of Nelson and Churchill
