Horatio Nelson (29 sett 1758 anni – 21 ottob 1805 anni)
Descrizione:
British naval commander in the wars with Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, who won crucial victories in such battles as those of the Nile and of Trafalgar. Horatio had destroyed the French fleet upon which Napoleon Bonaparte had based his hopes of Eastern conquest, and in the latter he had destroyed the combined French and Spanish fleets, thus ensuring the safety of the British Isles from invasion and the supremacy of British sea power for more than a century