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Birth and years as a midshipman, 1757-1777
Lieutenant, 1777-1779
Captain, 1779-1787
Half-pay, 1787-1793
The Mediterranean and Corsica, 1793-1796
The Battle of Cape St Vincent, 14 February 1797
Cadiz and Tenerife, June/July 1797
The Nile and Naples, 1798-1800
The Battle of Copenhagen, 2 April 1801
The Channel, August/October 1801
The Mediterranean, 1803-1805
Update, Friday night 13 of September 1805
Editor's Note
Sources
![Please click on image to go to other web site links which refer to Admiral Lord Nelson. [Portrait of Admiral Lord Nelson, 1800, by Heinrich Füger. (Oil on canvas) © The Royal Naval Museum, Portsmouth]](images/portrait_of_nelson.jpg)