#admiral nelson

[theredontbedragons]

HMS Victory

#HMS Victory #ship post #the most birthday trip #however big you think it is inside.. it's bigger #the fucking warship #black sails #master and commander #portsmouth historic dockyard #age of sail #tall ship #admiral nelson #battle of trafalgar #own photos

[ltwilliammowett]

29 September 1758

Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson was born at a rectory in Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk. He joined his first ship, HMS Raisonnable, aged 12 years, in January 1771.

He served in the Royal Navy for 34 years until he was killed in action at the Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805.

Painting by Lemuel Francis Abbott 1799

#naval history #naval art #sorry i forgot him yesterday #belated birthday #persons of the navy #royal navy #admiral nelson #18th century #age of sail

[lisystrata]

Lady Hamilton (1921)

#conrad veidt #german expressionism #silent film #lady hamilton #lord nelson #admiral nelson

[empirearchives]

David P. Jordan pointing out the hypocrisy of coalition propaganda portraying Napoleon’s intentions as “selfish ambition” and everyone else’s as “patriotism”

His ambition is still regularly invoked to explain his fabulous career and taint his revolutionary credentials. Ambition is a commodity never in short supply in public life and there is no way to differentiate the quality or quantity among its acolytes. Some are forgiven (even celebrated) and others are damned. Horatio Nelson and the Duke of Wellington were as ambitious as Napoleon, and as ruthless. […] Both became national heroes, their apotheosis still unchallenged, their ambition muted or absorbed into patriotic fervor.

The ambition of Nelson and Wellington, indeed of all those ambitious men who overthrew Napoleon, was honored as the defense of king and country, resistance to the tyranny and insatiable appetites of the conqueror, or patriotic zeal. Napoleon’s every act was tagged naked self-aggrandizement. The fear of the Revolution was focused on Napoleon, its nightmarish incarnation. It was not Napoleon the man, the general, the First Consul or the Emperor who was loathed and feared so much as the French Revolution he embodied.

Source: Napoleon and the Revolution

#napoleonic #napoleonic era #first french empire #napoleon #napoleon bonaparte #french empire #history #quote #David P. Jordan #Jordan #Napoleon and the Revolution #Wellington #Nelson #duke of wellington #admiral Nelson #1800s #france

[isthenapoleoncute]

this Napoleon is locked in an Enemy Mine dance with Admiral Nelson...is that a normal behaviour for Napoleons? also I am worried that is too big a hat even for a Napoleon

Rating: Er...cute!

It's not normal for a Napoleon to dance with an Admiral Nelson, but it's not dangerous? It's not not cute. It's just odd.

But yeah, that hat is a little big though, the guy is top heavy. I hope he doesn't fall over, poor guy! Maybe offer one that is more size-appropriate.

#is the napoleon cute? #admiral nelson #i guess #napoleon #cute

[pitt-able]

William Pitt's sleeping habits

I always found the private Pitt much more interesting than the political Pitt and probably one of the first aspects to really capture my attention about Pitt’s private life were his sleeping habits. I find sleep to be utterly fascinating, both from a medical/biological point of view but also from a personal point of view. And while Pitt’s sleep habits were nothing unheard of, there still were some peculiarities.

Pitt often was happy to get out of London, even if only for a short time, and to enjoy some peace and quiet in the country. Holwood House was a dearly beloved retreat of his. This desire to be out of the bustling city of London also extended to Pitt’s sleeping arrangements. William Wilberforce later wrote:

In the spring of one of these years Mr. Pitt, who was remarkably fond of sleeping in the country, and would often go out of town for that purpose as late as eleven or twelve o'clock at night, slept at Wimbledon for two or three months together. It was, I believe, rather at a later period that he often used to sleep also at Mr. Robert Smith’s house at Hamstead.

A. M. Wilberforce, editor, Private Papers of William Wilberforce, T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1897, p. 49.

Wimbledon was Wilberforce’s villa – he was one of the few of Pitt’s friends at the time to actually own a house.

But a country house was not the only place where Pitt could fall asleep, far from it. Although being Prime Minister is an important and dignified position, Pitt would often fall asleep in the House of Commons itself. Richard Rush, son of Benjamin Rush, American physician, and signer of the Declaration of Independence, was the American Minister to the court of St. James. In his papers he retells this story of a conversation he had once during a dinner:

He [William Wilberforce] spoke of Mr Pitt. They had been at school together. He was remarkable, he said, for excelling in mathematics; there was also this peculiarity in his constitution, that he required a great deal of sleep, seldom being able to do with less than ten or eleven hours; he would often drop asleep in the House of Commons; once he had known him do so at seven in the evening and sleep until day-light.

Richard Rush, Residence at the Court of London, third Edition, Hamilton, Adams & Co, London, 1872, p. 175

We can further read in the diaries of Charles Abbot:

March 17, 1796.—Dined at Butt’s with the Solicitor-General and Lord Muncaster. Lord Muncaster was an early political friend of Mr. Pitt, and our conversation turned much upon his habits of life. Pitt transacts the business of all departments except Lord Grenville’s and Dundas’s. He requires eight or ten hours’ sleep.

Earl Stanhope, The Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Vol. 3, John Murray, London, 1862, p. 4.

When you, for example read through Wilberforce’s diaries and journals, you will see many instances where he mentions that he either got no sleep at all or only slept very poorly. It was different with Pitt. When he was asleep, he normally could sleep on with neither internal nor external factors disturbing him. His ability to sleep on was apparently so outstanding that many of his contemporaries, Bishop Tomline and William Wilberforce for example, found it worthwhile to mention the few times that something disturbed Pitt’s sleep:

This was the only event of a public nature which I [Bishop Tomline] ever knew disturb Mr. Pitt’s rest while he continued in good health. Lord Temple’s resignation was determined upon at a late hour in the evening of the 21st, and when I went into Mr. Pitt’s bedroom the next morning he told me that he had not had a moment’s sleep.

Earl Stanhope, The Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Vol. 1, John Murray, London, 1861, p. 158.

The context of this scene was the resignation of Lord Temple as Secretary of State shortly after accepting the office. Pitt had really wanted Temple to be Secretary of State and was rather dismayed that he had resigned so quickly.

There were indeed but two events in the public life of Mr. Pitt, which were able to disturb his sleep—the mutiny at the Nore, and the first open opposition of Mr. Wilberforce; and he himself shared largely in these painful feelings.

R. I. Wilberforce, S. Wilberforce, The Life of William Wilberforce, Vol. 2, John Murray, London, 1833, p. 71.

Pitt himself told Lord Fitzharris that there was only one event that had kept him awake at night:

Lord Fitzharris says in his note-book:—‘‘One day in November, 1805, I happened to dine with Pitt, and Trafalgar was naturally the engrossing subject of our conversation. I shall never forget the eloquent manner in which he described his conflicting feelings when roused A the night to read Collingwood’s despatches. He observed that he had been called up at various hours in his eventful life by the arrival of news of various hues; but whether good or bad, he could always lay his head on his pillow and sink into sound, sleep again. On this occasion, however, the great event announced brought with it so much to weep over as well as to rejoice at, that he could not calm his thoughts; but at length got up, though it was three in the morning.”

Earl Stanhope, The Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Vol. 4, John Murray, London, 1862, p. 334.

The more you read about Pitt, especially in the private papers of his contemporaries and intimate friends, the more you see accounts of how often somebody mentions that he either roused him from his sleep him or found him to be still asleep/in bed. When Addington told Pitt that the Kings health was steadily mending – he was asleep. When the news of Trafalgar reached him – he was asleep. There is one letter from Admiral Nelson to Emma Hamilton. In it he describes that he had wanted to meet with William Pitt but when he arrived at his accommodation, he was told that Pitt was still asleep.

The older he got, the more sleep Pitt seemed to require and during his last illness, his ability to sleep was greatly impaired. Still, at the end of the day, his sleeping habits can be summed up by this quote from his niece Lady Hester Stanhope:

(…) for he was a good sleeper

Charles Lewis Meryon, Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, As related by Herself in Conversations with her Physician, Volume 2, Second Edition, London, 1845, p.58.

#william pitt #william pitt the younger #william wilberforce #sleep #lady hester stanhope #charles lewis meryon #bishop tomline #richard rush #english history #benjamin rush #lord temple #lord fitzharris #charles abbot #earl stanhope #admiral nelson #henry addington

[zorekryk]

Fitzjames, Fitzier, and Nelson (spoilers for The Terror)

just finished watching the terror and I love the parallels they made with Fitzjames and Admiral Nelson, the obvious of course right out of the gate in the first episode, telling the tale of his chest and arm wound just like Nelson's (granted, not in the same shot) as well as character traits, such as vanity and wanting to be seen, wanting to be decorated and beautiful, doing whatever it took to do well in the navy to earn recognition despite serious hardships (in Fitzjames' case his family, and in Nelson's his seasickness and other illnesses and injuries that he collected and plagued him throughout his life)

[spoilers below picture of our handsome captain]

that these wounds eventually kill him (or at least contributed to his death) sadly slowly and tragically, and showing his arm--which of course Nelson lost--with severe necrosis, has a stigmata feeling about it, because if anyone is sailor Jesus, it's Nelson

all this made the scene of his passing all the more emotional as he was helped and comforted by his close friend, a fellow captain, in the hour of his death, a man he had grown close to

I confess this tickled me pink, not just because they had a great dynamic, but this seems like it may have been foreshadowed in the first episode as well, because when Crozier is looking at what I assume are collected papers, biographies, and logs of famous captains, look whose name is amongst them

second from left, (Admiral) Sir Thomas (Masterman) Hardy, the man who comforted Nelson in his final hours, Nelson's captain, the man he loved, whom Admiral Nelson said was everything he could ever want, as good as ever, and had a usual style of elegance in decorating the ship

okay so that last one isn't as relevant here but I do enjoy it very much

#the terror #james fitzjames #fitzier #kiss me hardy #admiral nelson #captain hardy #fitzjames also would have known hardy as he served under him but then like so did pretty much every senior officer on the terror and erebus #they could have talked dresses and accessories given that hardy had Opinions about them #I'd say the queer thing is a parallel also but that's just business as usual for the royal navy #pretty sure you weren't allowed on a ship in the Age of Sail if you didn't show some appreciation for male beauty

[ratuszarsenal]

whatever you think about 'kiss me, hardy' in the context of nelson's relationship with cpt thomas hardy, you do have to admit that there's nothing funnier than victorian scholars confidently asserting that nelson spoke turkish in his dying moment because it kind of sounds like the word 'kismet' meaning fucking destiny. sheathing occam's razor and reaching for the farthest most outlandish conclusion so hard they probably sprained their arm

#maritime history #admiral nelson #horation nelson #I guess?

[vanillapie-art]

It's bday of one historical naval dumbass Alexa play Lady Gaga I dunno he's not my OC not original historical figure he's just stylish dumbass that lives in my head for those 4 years and plays Britney Spears non-stop I hate him

his face is a mashup of all paintings that I've ever seen + my sense of beauty not sorry I mean on each painting he looks different????? I dunno what I supposed to do so I don't give a damn

#horatio nelson #nelson #admiral nelson #history #British history #fanart #sketch #art #history art #historical figures #napoleonic era #royal navy #british #lord nelson

[toweringclam]

#lord nelson #admiral nelson #horatio nelson #admiral yi #general yi #dr doofenshmirtz #if i had a nickel #yi sun sin

[ltwilliammowett]

Admiral Nelson and Lady Hamilton in Neapel, by anonymous, early 19th century

#naval art #admiral nelson #lady hamilton #early 19th century #age of sail

[lisystrata]

#conrad veidt #german silent film #historical silent film #admiral nelson

[atropos-moth]

"I am become a burden to my friends and useless to my country"

Horatio Nelson's first letter after he lost his right arm in 1879

#Horatio Nelson #admiral nelson #age of sail #history

[mrkoppa]

Trafalgar Ware Nos. 318d & 318e: To Soar and To Column Down

7.6 x 5.1cm (each), 2022

#collage art #handmade collage #art #analog collage #contemporary collage #kunst #collagebook #trafalgarware #blue skies #duck #red duck #astro #nelsons column #admiral #admiral nelson

[nordleuchten]

Both this magazine and I had the perfect timing. :-)

#naval history #naval battle #trafalgar #admiral nelson #history #sjøkrig

[nakeddeparture]

GAIA, Barbados. Anthony ‘Admiral’ Nelson due back in Barbados today (Sunday, Jan. 7).

https://youtu.be/BWT2qZJmC10

If the woman is not going to be a witness at his trial - CASE CLOSED. Will he remain with her once they touch down in Barbados? I say NO. Have your say. Naked!!

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