Life of Nelson (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Southey
- First Published: 1813
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: 1758-1805
- Setting: England, the British colonies, the Continent, the high seas
- Principal Characters: Viscount Horatio Nelson, Edmund Nelson, Lady Emma Hamilton, Lady Frances Nelson, Maurice Suckling, Sir William Hamilton, Thomas Troubridge, Alexander Ball, Samuel Hood, Benjamin Hallowell, Hyde Parker, Thomas Graves, Earl St. Vincent (Sir John Jervis), Cuthbert Collingwood
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Biography
- Subjects: Colonies or colonization, France or French people, Nineteenth century, England or English people, War, Eighteenth century, Sailing or sailors, Sea or seafaring life, Heroes or heroism, Soldiers, Battles, Navies, Napoleonic Wars
- Locales: Europe, England, Oceans
“What has poor Horatio done, who is so weak, that he, above all the rest [of your children], should be sent to rough it out at sea? But let him come, and the first time we go into action, a cannonball may knock off his head, and provide for him at once.”
Had Nelson’s uncle, Captain Maurice Suckling, been prophetic in this letter to Nelson’s father, the course of English history subsequent to the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815) might well have been quite different from what it has been. The weakness of the twelve-year-old Horatio that Captain Suckling referred to was only...
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