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Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson

1758 - 1805

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Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronte (29 September [O.S. 18 September] 1758 – 21 October 1805) was a Royal Navy officer whose leadership, grasp of strategy and unconventional tactics brought about a number of decisive British naval victories during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest naval commanders in history. Nelson was born into a moderately prosperous Norfolk family and joined the navy through the influence of his uncle, Maurice Suckling, a high-ranking naval officer. Nelson rose rapidly through the ranks and served with leading naval commanders of the period before obtaining his own command at the age of 20, in 1778. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson is the 46th most popular military personnel (down from 33rd in 2019), the 172nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 93rd in 2019) and the 4th most popular British Military Personnel.

Horatio Nelson, 1st viscount nelson is most famous for his victory over Napoleon Bonaparte's fleet in the Battle of the Nile, and for his death at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson ranks 46 out of 2,058. Before him are Pyrrhus of Epirus, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, Tariq ibn Ziyad, Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Guan Yu, and Stonewall Jackson. After him are Charles X Gustav of Sweden, Alfred Jodl, Douglas MacArthur, Hiroo Onoda, Seleucus I Nicator, and Alfred Dreyfus.

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Among people born in 1758, Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson ranks 3. Before him are Maximilien Robespierre, and Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers. After him are Noah Webster, James Monroe, André Masséna, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Emperor Go-Momozono, Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier, Kamehameha I, Franz Joseph Gall, and Honoré IV, Prince of Monaco. Among people deceased in 1805, Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson ranks 2. Before him is Friedrich Schiller. After him are Luigi Boccherini, Isabelle de Charrière, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Claude Chappe, Maria Theresa of Savoy, Aloys I, Prince of Liechtenstein, Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, Frederica Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt, Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Denmark, and Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson ranks 172 out of 8,785. Before him are Ridley Scott (1937), Jane Seymour (1508), Roger Bacon (1220), Patrick Blackett (1897), Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830), and Robert Edwards (1925). After him are Jeremy Bentham (1748), Mark Knopfler (1949), Geoffrey Chaucer (1343), Philip Noel-Baker (1889), Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia (1596), and Aldous Huxley (1894).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson ranks 4. Before him are Bernard Montgomery (1887), William Wallace (1270), and Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (1857). After him are T. E. Lawrence (1888), Edward Smith (1850), Claude Auchinleck (1884), John Hawkins (1532), Alexander Selkirk (1676), William Stuart-Houston (1911), Gertrude Bell (1868), and Captain Tom (1920).

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