The story of Nelson

Horatio as a child was weak and sickly, and all his life he was delicate. Even after his many years afloat, we are told that he never quite got over the feeling of seasickness.

Very shortly afterwards the _Raisonable_ was paid off, and Captain Suckling got the command of the _Triumph_, 74 guns, then the guardship in the Medway. To this ship his nephew...

There were some thirty midshipmen on board, and Lady Hughes was much struck with Nelson's interest in and kindness to "the young gentlemen who had the happiness of being on his...

The French, everywhere victors on land, now made an alliance with Spain, with the help of whose large navy they hoped to be able to beat the British at sea.

Great Britain was now alone in her struggle with France, and Bonaparte resolved that it should be a war to the death. With Great Britain defeated, the conqueror would have the w...

"I never expect, my dear lord, to see your face again," he said. "It may please God that this will be the finish to that fever of anxiety which I have endured from the middle of...

His time at home was short, for again there were signs of war, and the fleet was once more to be called upon to strike a blow for our national honour.

Nelson had in the meantime shifted his flag to the _St. George_, and as some repairs had to be made to this ship, he was forced to remain behind till she could be got ready.

Nelson was now in chief command of the Mediterranean squadron. Great Britain was once more waging war single-handed against the French Empire. The rest of Europe was crushed: ev...

On the 13th of October Nelson's old ship, the _Agamemnon, under the command of "the hero of a hundred fights_," Captain Berry, joined the fleet. "Here comes Berry. Now we shall...