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Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson

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Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, was a British Royal Navy officer whose leadership, strategic judgment and unconventional tactics produced multiple decisive British naval victories during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Birth Date
1758-09-29 1
Birth Year
1758 1
Death Date
1805-10-21 1
Death Year
1805 1
Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson
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Additional Source Wikipedia: Battle of TrafalgarInfobox: Commanders (British)

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Derived from entity-description (backfill w-bfill-g2-0924): "British Royal Navy officer"

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    Vice-Admiral of the White Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronte (29 September 1758 - 21 October 1805) was a British Royal Navy officer whose leadership, grasp of strategy, and unconventional tactics led to multiple decisive British naval victories during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
  • Infobox: Born
    29 September 1758
  • Infobox: Died
    21 October 1805
  • Fought In: War of the Third Coalition, Infobox, Conflicts list
    War of the Third Coalition
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