2-495-232 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, English naval commander, c1798-c1805 (c1857). One of Britain's greatest military figures, Admiral Nelson (1758-1805) was the victor at a number of naval battles in the Napoleonic Wars, including the Battle of the Nile (1798), Copenhagen (1801) and most famously, Trafalgar (1805), where he was fatally wounded. From England's Battles by Sea and Land, volume II, by Lieutenant Colonel William Freke Williams, published by the London Printing and Publishing Company, 1857.