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| Taken to sea by his uncle in his twelfth year: |
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| Sails in the expedition to discover a north-west passage: |
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| The French war having broken out, Nelson sails to the Mediterranean as commander of the AGAMEMNON: |
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| Loses his right eye at Calvi: |
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| Loses his right arm at Santa Cruz: |
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| Shatters the naval poser of France and her allies |
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| the Nile (1798), |
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| and Trafalgar (1805), |
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| He had been made a baron |
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| and a viscount in |
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