Horatio Nelson

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Excerpt from Horatio Nelson: England's Sailor Hero WE celebrate, this year of grace nineteen hundred and five, l the centenary of the sailor hero who wrung from the navies of the world the command of the seas, making the country he loved so dearly, mistress of the waters. It was this vast achievement which rendered the Peninsular War possible it was the victories Of Wellington in Spain which broke the power Of Napoleon, it was the destruction of that military genius at Waterloo which terminated military despotism, and enabled Europe to enter upon the prosperity it enjoys to-day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.