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| | Horatio Nelson Memorial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Nelson, Horatio, Viscount Nelson (1758-1805), British naval commander, whose victories in the battles of the Nile and Trafalgar made him a British national hero. |
 | | Subsequently he saw battle service in the West Indies in 1780, was chosen to instruct Prince William, later William IV, king of Great Britain, in naval tactics, studied naval matters in France, and in 1784 commanded the British frigate Boreas, stationed at Antigua, West Indies. |
 | | Nelson then proceeded to Naples, from which the Neapolitan royal family had been driven by French troops and Neapolitan sympathizers with the French Revolution; he was prominent in the action against Naples that resulted in the restoration of the royal family, and for his services he was created (1800) duke of Bront? |
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