Death of Nelson on board 'HMS Victory' at the Battle of Trafalgar, 1805 (1827). Artist: Unknown

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Death of Nelson on board 'HMS Victory' at the Battle of Trafalgar, 1805 (1827). One of Britain's greatest military figures, Admiral Nelson (1758-1805) was the victor at a number of naval battles in the Napoleonic Wars, including the Battle of the Nile (1798), Copenhagen (1801) and most famously, Trafalgar (1805), where he was fatally wounded by a shot from a French sharpshooter.

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