Topic: Horatio Nelson
Associated Press A Florida-based deep-sea salvage company will help explore the wreck of a renowned 18th century British warship it discovered at ...
This summer I had long holiday in China, so I could not afford another one in the UK financially speaking. HMS Victory, HMS Warrior 1860, Mary Rose Museum, Royal Naval Museum, Harbour Tour and Action Stations. One thing to bear in mind ...
HMS Victory is my last but definitely not the least attraction I had while I visited Portsmouth Historic Dockyard on 11 September 2010. However HMS Victory is well known for being the flagship of Horatio Nelson in the Battle of Trafalgar in ...
The Royal Navy has a long and mostly distinguished history. Sometimes known as "the Senior Service", the Royal Navy in its recognisable modern form came into being in the early sixteenth century, in the reign of Henry VIII . In 1843, the "Great ...
This is not a review of Losing Nelson or England, England, or a record of visits to Chester. The trips to Chester are offered by the way, as a start and a finish. At Chester I remember I liked the sea lions ...
Horatio Nelson was born on the 27th of September 1758 in the village of Burnham Thorpe in Norfolk, England, sixth of eleven children. At the climax of the battle, as the Santissima Trinidad moved to regroup the Spanish fleet, Nelson took his ...
The Trafalgar Square has been constructed to commemorate the victory of the British against the French &
This column is the second of a three part series, each a step-by-step itinerary for three different sight-filled days of the wonders of London! To see London, Day one, click London, Day Two will set out a day seeing Trafalgar Square, National ...
Co Ltd of 110 Bunhill Row, London EC1 launched the first self filling fountain pen guaranteed not to leak - the Onoto Patent Self-Filling Pen. At around the same time a range of stylish pearl-marble Onoto plunger-fillers, together with matching pencils and a ...
In this battle the British destroyed Napoleon's sea power and eliminated any possibility of an invasion of England.. Knowing that without sea power Napoleon could not launch an attack on England, Nelson had spent the summer pursuing the enemy fleet. When ...
