Vice-Admiral of the White Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronte was a British Royal Navy officer whose leadership, grasp of strategy, and unconventional tactics led to multiple decis
Portrait of Horatio Nelson by Lemuel Francis Abbott, 1799
The site of the rectory in Burnham Thorpe in Norfolk, where Nelson was born in 1758
Captain Horatio Nelson, painted by John Francis Rigaud in 1781, with Fort San Juan—the scene of his most notable achievement till then—in the background.
Nelson's wife, Lady Nelson, formerly Frances "Fanny" Nisbet of the island of Nevis, West Indies.
Frances Nelson, Viscountess Nelson, Duchess of Bronte was the wife of Horatio Nelson, the British naval officer who won several victories over the French during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic
Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson
…Nelson was in peril of imprisonment; he remained sequestered on Boreas for eight months until the courts ruled in his favour. Meanwhile, Nelson met Frances "Fanny" Nisbet, a young widow from a Nevis plantation family. Nelson developed an affection for her. In response, her uncle John Herbert offered him a massive dowry…
Lady Nelson Project Gutenberg e Text 16914