EOS 5D MK.I with ZEISS DISTAGON F2.8 21MM Sample Photo 529657 By bajanexile

Horatio Nelson was born on 29 September 1758 in a rectory in Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, England, the sixth of eleven children of the Reverend Edmund Nelson and his wife Catherine. His naval career began on 1 January 1771 (I make that when he was 12 years old), when he reported to the third-rate HMS Raisonnable as an Ordinary Seaman and coxswain under his maternal uncle, Captain Maurice Suckling, who commanded the vessel. Shortly after reporting aboard, Nelson was appointed a midshipman and began officer train