Nelson: The Hunt for Napoleon (TRIH ep 517, part 4)
1798 · Resource
This episode (the end of part one) focuses on Admiral Horatio Nelson's elevation from a wounded, private man to a national hero and his ensuing Mediterranean mission to find and interdict Napoleon Bonaparte's great armament. Holland and Sandbrook trace Nelson's return to public acclaim after Cape St Vincent, his honours and disabilities, and the fraught political and financial context in Britain in 1797.
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Around 1798
- Opium Wars (1839)
- Latin American wars of independence (1808)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- Greek War of Independence (1821)
- French Revolution (1789)
- Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (Choral) (1824)
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- Seven Years' War (1756)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)