The British fleet, with Admiral Sir Hyde Parker in command ... Some years previously, at the siege of Calvi, Nelson had lost the sight of his right eye. At Copenhagen he used this to his advantage.

The vice admiral hired him to handle his ... an order to “discontinue the engagement.” Nelson reminded his officers that he had only one good eye and then said, “I have a right to be blind ...

He served in the Mediterranean, helped capture Corsica and saw battle at Calvi (where he lost the sight in his right eye ... that same year, Nelson was promoted to vice-admiral.

The face is a remarkable likeness and Lady Hamilton, who thought this was more like the Admiral than any portrait, herself arranged a lock of hair as he always wore it. Unfortunately it appears that ...

A futuristic blob-like hotel building standing eye-to-eye with Admiral Nelson in Trafalgar Square. And a giant glass pyramid in the heart of the brutalist Barbican estate. Welcome to London ...