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Born March 11, 1757 • Saint Peter Port • Channel Islands
Died October 9, 1836 (aged 79) • Channel Islands
Role In Battle of the Nile • French Revolutionary wars • Napoleonic Wars
Lord Nelson, detail of an oil painting by J.F. Rigaud; in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, Eng.
Horatio Nelson
British naval commander
Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy, Baronet
British naval officer
Collingwood, Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron
Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood
British military officer
William Pitt the Younger
William Pitt, the Younger
prime minister of United Kingdom
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
prime minister of United Kingdom
Arthur Wellesley, 1st duke of Wellington
Arthur Wellesley, 1st duke of Wellington
prime minister of Great Britain
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh
Irish statesman
George Canning, painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence and Richard Evans; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
George Canning
British statesman
William Bligh
William Bligh
English admiral
Prince Andrew
Prince Andrew, duke of York
British prince
John Arbuthnot Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher
British admiral
Jellicoe, John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Earl, Viscount Jellicoe of Scapa, Viscount Brocas of Southampton
John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe
British admiral
Andrew Browne Cunningham, first sea lord and chief of naval staff in the Royal Navy, 1943–46.
Andrew Browne Cunningham
British naval officer
Robert Fitzroy
British scientist
Louis Mountbatten.
Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten
British statesman
Beatty, Sir David
David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty
British admiral
Bertram Home Ramsay, naval commander in chief of Operation Overlord, the Normandy Invasion.
Bertram Home Ramsay
British officer
Moore, Sir John
Sir John Moore
British lieutenant general
Louis Alexander Mountbatten
Louis Alexander Mountbatten, 1st marquess of Milford Haven
British admiral
Roger John Brownlow Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes
British admiral