Nelson, Admiral Horatio

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A British naval officer of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, also called Lord Nelson. He defeated the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte's fleet in the Battle of Trafalgar but was fatally wounded in the battle.

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A crucial question, very much affected by what the Admiral told me last night.
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The Admiral came aboard and between us we tried to size up the new situation and to readjust ourselves thereto.
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