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How to use nelson in a sentence

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I got to admit he does make the full nelson look painful on a smaller wrestler.
Chris Masters' Masterlock is merely a more powerful variant of the full nelson.
She stared as I restrained my two-year-old in something like a half nelson to keep him out of the candy bin.
Show had Holly in a full nelson when Mysterio tried to attack Show from behind with a chair, but Show punched the chair into Rey.
Z reacted quickly to this, he let go of his right arm and brought it around Ursas' right arm, putting Ursa not only in a sleeper, but also in a half nelson.
Ventura, a former pro wrestler, has embraced the sport with a full nelson.
Holly puts Stamboli in a full nelson and OJ pins Chuck with powerslam.
You worked with Ryan Gosling on half nelson, which was amazing, and are reuniting with him in The Gangster Squad.
Matt applies a full nelson with body scissors, and we get a speech from Coach and Al about how people might think Matt's not doing anything right now, but he totally is.
No, Ryan was a great guy and we had a great time working together on half nelson.
Rome, which has many other worries beside the vanity of Smart and Special Americans has pushed, but has never really tried to put them in a full nelson.
Ronny has Javel in a full nelson as Seth verbally taunts him.
He grabbed a fistful of that lush cashew-colored hair that made Pink Jenny so popular, twisted her arm behind her in a vicious half nelson, and dragged her up to my face.
A half nelson, a forearm smash, An arm and a leg to grab, A dropkick, a body slam, Or a painful Boston crab.
Nelson used full left rudder and differential thrust to make an arrested landing.
Students at Mt Nelson Primary School were given the day off after a tree fell across powerlines and cut electricity to the school.
We hopped in one of many taxis decorated with posters of either Nelson Mandela or Marilyn Monroe.
Born in Qunu, Transkei, on 18 July 1918, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was descended from the Thembu royal lineage.
Also on Saturday the Calne Choral Society will be singing Haydn's Nelson Mass at John Bentley School at 7.30 pm.
The first series was screened in 1994 as people of all races voted together for the first time and elected Nelson Mandela president.
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Now the sculptor who made the bust is working on a statue of Nelson Mandela based on that visit to Bedford.
Nelson stepped from his shower, wrapped in his blue terry cloth robe, with a white towel draped around his neck.
Children may be busy enjoying their summer holidays but there is still hard work in progress at Nelson School.
The state jury acquitted Nelson of all charges, including second-degree murder.
The Nelson mineral belt was rich in argillite, a dark stone which made fine tools.
Nelson Mandela demonstrated to the world that the ideas of peace could not be separated from reconciliation and forgiveness.
Nelson fought the Battle of Trafalgar from the deck of his flagship, HMS Victory, close to the Rock in 1805 but never lived to tell the tale.
The roll of honour includes many hugely respected figures from Britain's past including William Shakespeare, Horatio Nelson and Charles Darwin.
The Lord Nelson angler persevered for five hours, but in the end could only catch a few tiddlers.
When they returned to their home, they went to their bedroom and Geneva put on her teddy to go to sleep in while Nelson shaved.
Some mindless vandals have damaged the bust of Archbishop Huddleston, unveiled in Bedford last year by Nelson Mandela.
They argued that times are hard for the trade as there is little business in Pendle and especially Nelson with few thriving pubs and clubs.
Dodson's beers are produced from a blend of malts, good water and New Zealand-grown hops from Motueka near Nelson.
Nelson is emasculated by postmodern and postcolonial theories, which call his white maleness into question.
However, the president said yesterday if Nelson submits a medical he would make sure she received a make-up test.
Her father, Robert Douglass, is a lawyer from Greenwich, Connecticut, and a former right-hand man to Nelson Rockefeller.
Nelson liked to salvage a few lifeboats from defeated French ships for this very purpose.
He was active in the anti-apartheid struggle and became head of the Nelson Mandela Foundation in South Africa.
Geraldine Nelson had trouble keeping her potted angel's trumpet from blowing over in the New Jersey winds.
The scientist and Nelson, along with the boat's bathyscaphe was amazingly swallowed by a huge whale.
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The samples were analysed by the internationally respected Cawthron Institute in Nelson, New Zealand.
Two minutes later, Dave Nelson sewed the game up for Thackley following a quick throw-in from Declan Corby.
After all, Nelson Mandela was the automatic choice as president to begin with.
When they reached the front walk of the Nelson house at the top of the hill, Caitlin turned and faced him.
The movie has a tendency to be talky, but that's because it's based on a play that Nelson wrote.
As Nelson abstractedly went over some of the myriad of reports that covered his desk, the intercom on his desk interrupted him.
Willie Nelson is warbling through the stereo and the sun is slipping fast into the Texas Hill Country.
The quintet of oboe, flute, clarinet, horn and bassoon is led by Howard Nelson and will present a programme of contrasting chamber music.
Then Nelson and David Rockefeller horned their way in, and the spotlight moved to the Trilateral Commission.
Nelson grins, radiating laid-back cheer, in contrast to Bennington's barely disguised wariness.
The 53-year-olds are the landlady and landlord of the Lord Nelson in York Village, Langho.
This will happen in Fort Worth, the city that gave you Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson, not to overlook the ice cream drumstick and washeteria.
Like with Mac's in Nelson, there's the pungent, delectable smell of yeast and fermentation.
Despite his love for Emma and the joy of having a child at last, Nelson was none the less given to bouts of depression.
At the police station, Winkler told Siewert that he maced Nelson after Nelson maced him.
Above the thunderous whir of the aircraft rotors, Nelson and his buddies yelled back and forth, shooting the bull as the copter lifted off.
A portion of the collection can be viewed year-round at a museum in Nelson.
In this collaboration between Bruchac and S.D. Nelson, of Lakota Indian descent, the boyhood story of Crazy Horse is told.
From a Craig Nelson kick the ball sailed the length of the pitch into the heart of the Celtic area.
It was Nelson who took the title for the best aggregate gross score, although their 296 total was matched by Burnley and the host club.
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It stands to reason that affordable homes are not going to be built in Nelson.
Nelson has digested, reassembled, and constructed a remarkable amount of material to render Harlem Gallery into a text that is newly accessible.
She said the presence of such a large international fleet was a mark of the high esteem in which Nelson continued to be held.
He stated that the cart had speed control settings that permitted Nelson to operate the cart at a pace too fast for the path terrain.
Whereas in Burnham Thorpe it may have been Rear Admiral Sir Horatio and Lady Nelson, in Naples it was Mars and Venus.
I remember a couple of occasions when the ref stopped the game for no apparent reason and called Nelson over.
For instance, Nelson at one point referred to a scientific paper on the evolution of the Krebs cycle.
Hey Lewis, you seem to be forgetting that the Nelson residence is an alcohol-free area.
Nelson Mandela, for example, describes in his autobiography the depth of presence of Robben Island in the Xhosa language.
The gallery still houses one of the finest surviving suites of Regency giltwood furniture made to commemorate Lord Nelson and his victories.
The new transport interchange planned for Nelson could kick-start vital regeneration of the town centre.
The Xhosas, whose greatest son, Nelson Mandela, would be born just 61 years later, honoured her vision.
The measures were taken after South Yorkshire detectives received a tip-off that Nelson was in danger.
Nelson stated that people keep pretending that they can make things deeply hierarchical, categorisable, and sequential when in fact they can't.
Living with them is Nelson, Rabbit's son, at 42 a recovering coke addict and careworker recently estranged from his wife, Pru.
Around 1912, Johnson had his first experience with electronics when his half brother, Charlie Nelson, strung lines between two neighborhood houses for Morse telegraphy.
Also, when Nelson died and Hugh Morrow did his own oral history project and talked to about 75 Rockefeller associates.
At one point, Turness suggested that Gregory have a live band close out the show to commemorate the death of Nelson Mandela.
And the truth is, I got way more opportunities out of Half Nelson than I did out of fracture.
The humble abode which Nelson Mandela occupied when he first came to Joburg during the early 1940s is to be transformed into a heritage attraction site.
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My favourite memory of a tall ship is standing at the helm of the Lord Nelson under full sail, feeling her heel over in a stiff breeze until her port deck was awash.
Platnick and Nelson, who introduced the concepts of cladistic biogeography, required that all taxa used must occur in three or more similar areas.
Trey was born on a cold February morning the same week Nelson Mandela walked out of a South African prison after 26 years.
If they read Nelson carefully, they'll hear a muted warning to shelve Paul Ryan's budget plans.
But Nelson Mandela made peace with death 50 years ago, says his official biographer Charlene Smith.
All his life Nelson was profoundly aware of the drudgery of toil, whether on the furrow or the lower deck, and humanely responsive to the concerns of the least privileged.
Nelson reached into his pocket, and took out his master key.
Placed at reserve was Geoff Mellin, a retail butcher at Nelson, Lancashire, who keeps 15 Belgian Blues and Limousin breeding cattle for producing beef for sale in the shop.
Political editor Fraser Nelson is shortlisted for Columnist of the Year.
And Idris Elba, who recently earned raves for his portrayal of Nelson Mandela, deserves better than this.
Even in the past, with just a limited number of newspapers and broadsheets, this phenomenon has taken place, as the public adoration of Admiral Nelson demonstrated.
I went to a junior school on Every Street in Nelson and I loved it.
Then, Enfield hosted Nelson as leaders, but went down to a defeat which allowed the Seedhill side to take over at the top, where they've resided since.
Nelson stood and stretched his muscles, stiff from the prolonged still position and the rigidness of the chair, and went over to check on his sleeping son.
Add A.J. Liebling, Raymond Chandler, Hammett, Cain, and the boys, Nelson Algren and William Kennedy.
Nelson frowned, his thick eyebrows pulling together into a solid line.
At one time an Army scout fluent in the Apache language, Horn has been credited with mediating the surrender of the great chief Geronimo to General Nelson A. Miles.
Through the years, Shara Nelson, Tricky, Tracy Thorn, Liz Fraser and reggae toaster Horace Andy have all been an integral part of Massive Attack's evolving sound.
Nelson wrote a paper at Dartmouth on Standard Oil, which was about as defensive and as deeply researched as you would expect.
My ageing father sat in a lawn chair on the Nelson city wharf, baitcasting, while I used his father's bamboo fly rod, a family heirloom made of Tonkin cane.
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The daughter of 7th Day Adventist missionaries, Heidi Nelson was raised with the expectation that she would do well.
But I also learned more recently not to put a gauzy, Instagram filter on the life of Nelson Mandela.
To give the award to Albert Schweitzer, or Nelson Mandela or Desmond Tutu or lech Walesa or Andrei Sakharov is one thing.
Nelson had a chance to force a play-off with a birdie on the final hole but pulled a sand wedge into a green-side bunker on his way to dropping a shot.
For a young journalist in South Africa Nelson Mandela as a young ANC leader was a major source on the anti-apartheid struggle.
Hard to imagine him slammin' down shiner Bocks and listenin' to Willie Nelson.
The archaeologist Sarah Nelson is in her eighties, and she would go dig in China this minute if she could get grant money.
Once they reached the stage, a giant scissor lift raised a man dressed as the living statue of Admiral Nelson, in a symbolic recreation of the monument.
Everyone from the Rolling Stones to Nelson Mandela, Doris Day to Tom Cruise eventually passed through this art deco landmark.
The party really started to rock when Willie Nelson and Queen Nefertiti began pouring shots.
He rose and refilled his mug, and gave a filled one to Nelson.
Likening him to Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela is sacrilege.
If Nelson had lost Britain would have been invaded, without question.
When L.A. Times reporter Jack Nelson saw Clark in the courthouse, he said hello and extended his hand.
Nelson Mandela's ex-wife describes the final moments of his life as he passed away last week at his home in Johannesburg.
Camp Nelson and High Bridge were dry woodlands in silty clay on steep, south-facing, gorge slopes, but Scotts Grove was a mesie woodland on level silt loam.
When Gerald Ford picked Nelson Rockefeller as vice president from 1974 to 1977, it was a consolation prize to a burned-out boom.
When Heitzig departed to pastor another Calvary church in California, he chose Pete Nelson as his successor.
Earlier this year, she joined Winston Churchill and Nelson Mandela in being made an Honorary Freeman of the City of Leeds in recognition of her outstanding service to music.
Nelson could not immediately make out the French flagship as the French and Spanish were not flying command pennants.
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Nelson was outnumbered and outgunned, the enemy totalling nearly 30,000 men and 2,568 guns to his 17,000 men and 2,148 guns.
As Nelson lay dying, he ordered the fleet to anchor, as a storm was predicted.
Royal Marine Lieutenant Lewis Buckle Reeve was seriously wounded and lay next to Nelson.
Over the years Chinmoy had ongoing friendships with Mikhail Gorbachev, Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa, and Desmond Tutu.
Campbell's successor, Nelson McCausland, also suggested that an alternative name be found.
Lord Petre sent another stag and two hinds in 1861, and these were liberated near Nelson, from where they quickly spread.
Lord Nelson ranked Robert Blake as one of the greatest naval generals ever known, even when compared with his own reputation.
Militia units were formed in Auckland, Wellington, New Plymouth, and Nelson.
The British did not lose a single ship, and destroyed the enemy fleet, but Admiral Lord Nelson died in the battle.
In 1997, the ITP Nelson Dictionary of the Canadian English Language was another product, but has not been updated since.
Organisationally, the district has its headquarters in Nelson and has three distinct Areas each headed by an Inspector as its commander.
His biographies include the life and works of John Bunyan, John Wesley, William Cowper, Oliver Cromwell and Horatio Nelson.
The last has rarely been out of print since its publication in 1813 and was adapted for the screen in the 1926 British film, Nelson.
Our common room, thanks to a morally rectitudinous constitutional change some time previously, was known as the Nelson Mandela Room.
Medal winners include Nelson Mandela, Sir Frank Whittle, and Professor Stephen Hawking.
Pendle Hill is located in the east of Lancashire, England, near the towns of Burnley, Nelson, Colne, Clitheroe and Padiham.
In 1999, Beck contributed to a tribute album for Bruce Haack and Esther Nelson and their label Dimension 5 Records.
To the west of Burnley lie the towns of Padiham, Accrington and Blackburn, with Nelson and Colne to the north.
In return for the work Sanderson was allowed an attic room and board at the Nelson cottage.
Shooting the bull with Benny and Elvira while Nelson skitters around out there in the lake of rooftops, selling used cars like hotcakes.
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In recent years Nelson has grown a mustache, a tufty brown smudge not much wider than his nose.
Research umngqusho, a South African dish and reportedly the favorite food of Nelson Mandela. Discuss the process of preparing umngqusho.
Xenopsychiatry. Yvette Heloise Renaud. Xenopsychology. Harold Nelson Bennett. Xenosociology.
Still, in true Willie Nelson fashion, expect Baylor to smoke Xavier.
On tour in the UK he has accompanied such American greats as Alton Purnell, Thomas Jefferson, Louis Nelson, Wallace Davenport and Wingy Manone.
Beauvoir even fictionalized her relationship with the American author Nelson Algren in The Mandarins, which Al-green viewed as a betrayal.
And author Nelson Algren, angrily mourning the end of his affair with Simone de Beauvoir.
Others he knew like Mahalia Jackson, David Dellinger, Nelson Algren, and Eugene Debs.
Rovers failed to clear their lines amida scramble in the box with a Martin Harty effort rebounding before Nelson stepped up to score the winner.
But the most meaningful flame was the one lit by Nelson Mandela in his old jail cell on Robben Island, where he spent 18 long years in prison.
South Africa's antiapartheid icon Nelson Mandela, his widow Graca Machel and former UN chief Kofi Annan have previously been honoured.
She credits Gandhi and Nelson Mandela for teaching her about compassion.
We did so soon after hauling the kayaks out at Willow Cove, which lies next to a prime diving spot called Mike Nelson Rock.
Mandla Mandela has been officially charged with exhuming and reburying Nelson Mandela's three children.
Gabe fought the legendary Nelson in a one-point fight on a Don King card with Don King's people.
Wiley Nelson was among the Axmen who had undefeated days, winning two matches at 171 pounds with pins and receiving a forfeit in his other match.
The daring tactics employed by Nelson were to ensure a strategically decisive result.
His finest creation, cockerney geeza Lee Nelson, is worth the price of admission on his own.
In the view of historians David Dumville and Janet Nelson he may have agreed not to marry or have heirs in order to gain acceptance.
During the period of the Napoleonic Wars, the East India Company arranged for letters of marque for its vessels such as the Lord Nelson.
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The outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars allowed Nelson to return to service, where he was particularly active in the Mediterranean.
Nelson's aunt, Alice Nelson was the wife of Reverend Robert Rolfe, Rector of Hilborough, Norfolk and grandmother of Sir Robert Monsey Rolfe.
Shortly after reporting aboard, Nelson was appointed a midshipman and began officer training.
Early in his service, Nelson discovered that he suffered from seasickness, a chronic complaint that dogged him for the rest of his life.
Nelson and Seahorse spent the rest of the year cruising off the coast and escorting merchantmen.
His patron, Suckling, had risen to the post of Comptroller of the Navy in 1775, and used his influence to help Nelson gain further promotion.
Nelson asked for and was given command of her, and took her on two cruises of his own.
As well as giving him his first taste of command, it gave Nelson the opportunity to explore his fledgling interest in science.
While Nelson waited, news reached Parker that a French fleet under the command of Charles Hector, comte d'Estaing, was approaching Jamaica.
Parker hastily organized his defences and placed Nelson in command of Fort Charles, which covered the approaches to Kingston.
Nelson had however fallen seriously ill in the jungles of Costa Rica, probably from a recurrence of malaria, and was unable to take command.
Nelson gradually recovered over several months, and soon began agitating for a command.
Nelson received orders on 23 October 1781 to take the newly refitted Albemarle to sea.
Nelson successfully organised the convoy and escorted it into British waters.
Nelson arrived off Newfoundland with the convoy in late May, then detached on a cruise to hunt American privateers.
During his scouting operations, Nelson had developed a plan to assault the French garrison of the Turks Islands.
The French were found to be heavily entrenched and after several hours Nelson called off the assault.
Several of the officers involved criticised Nelson, but Hood does not appear to have reprimanded him.
Nelson spent the rest of the war cruising in the West Indies, where he captured a number of French and Spanish prizes.
The captains of the American vessels Nelson had seized sued him for illegal seizure.
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Nelson spent the first half of the year conducting operations to frustrate French advances and bolster Britain's Italian allies.
Hood readily acquiesced and sent Nelson to carry dispatches to Sardinia and Naples requesting reinforcements.
There Nelson met Ferdinand IV, King of Naples, followed by the British ambassador to the kingdom, William Hamilton.
At some point during the negotiations for reinforcements, Nelson was introduced to Hamilton's new wife, Emma Hamilton.
Nelson put to sea in pursuit of a French frigate, but on failing to catch her, sailed for Leghorn, and then to Corsica.
Hood still hoped the city could be held if more reinforcements arrived, and sent Nelson to join a squadron operating off Cagliari.
After making repairs, Nelson and Agamemnon sailed again on 26 October, bound for Tunis with a squadron under Commodore Robert Linzee.
A British assault force landed on the island on 7 February, after which Nelson moved to intensify the blockade off Bastia.
Nelson began to land guns from his ships and emplace them in the hills surrounding the town.
On 11 April the British squadron entered the harbour and opened fire, whilst Nelson took command of the land forces and commenced bombardment.
While Nelson directed a continuous bombardment of the enemy positions, Stuart's men began to advance.
He immediately set out to intercept them, and Nelson eagerly anticipated his first fleet action.
Heavily damaged, the two French ships were forced to surrender and Nelson took possession of the Censeur.
Winston Churchill also found Nelson to be a source of inspiration during the Second World War.
Nelson returned to Corsica on 30 November, angry and depressed at the British failure and questioning his future in the navy.
Nelson went on to rendezvous with the British fleet at Elba, where he spent Christmas.
Nelson joined Jervis's fleet off Cape St Vincent, and reported the Spanish movements.
Nelson found himself towards the rear of the British line and realised that it would be a long time before he could bring Captain into action.
After an hour of exchanging broadsides which left both Captain and Culloden badly damaged, Nelson found himself alongside San Nicolas.
Nelson led his party from the deck of San Nicolas onto San Josef and captured her as well.
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Jervis liked Nelson and so did not officially reprimand him, but did not mention Nelson's actions in his official report of the battle.
Twice Nelson was nearly cut down and both times his life was saved by a seaman named John Sykes who took the blows and was badly wounded.
Most of the right arm was amputated and within half an hour Nelson had returned to issuing orders to his captains.
Nelson returned to Bath with Fanny, before moving to London in October to seek expert medical attention concerning his amputated arm.
Nelson exclaimed that he would have given his other arm to have been present.
Nelson and the Vanguard were to be dispatched to Cadiz to reinforce the fleet.
On 28 March 1798, Nelson hoisted his flag and sailed to join Earl St Vincent.
Nelson on Vanguard personally engaged Spartiate, also coming under fire from Aquilon.
Nelson briefly came on deck to direct the battle, but returned to the surgeon after watching the destruction of Orient.
The City of London awarded Nelson and his captains swords, whilst the King ordered them to be presented with special medals.
Nelson was dismayed by Spencer's decision, and declared that he would rather have received no title than that of a mere barony.
Nelson hastily organised the evacuation of the Royal Family, several nobles and the British nationals, including the Hamiltons.
Nelson spent the rest of 1799 at the Neapolitan court but put to sea again in February 1800 after Lord Keith's return.
After the cruise, Nelson conveyed the Queen of Naples and her suite to Leghorn.
In the face of Keith's demands, Nelson reluctantly struck his flag and bowed to Emma Hamilton's request to return to England over land.
Nelson was given a hero's welcome and after being sworn in as a freeman of the borough and received the massed crowd's applause.
During this period, Nelson was reported as being cold and distant to his wife and his attention to Emma became the subject of gossip.
With the marriage breaking down, Nelson began to hate even being in the same room as Fanny.
Nelson joined Admiral Sir Hyde Parker's fleet at Yarmouth, from where they sailed for the Danish coast in March.
On the morning of 2 April 1801, Nelson began to advance into Copenhagen harbour.
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At length Nelson dispatched a letter to the Danish commander, Crown Prince Frederick, calling for a truce, which the Prince accepted.
On 30 October Nelson spoke in support of the Addington government in the House of Lords, and afterwards made regular visits to attend sessions.
Nelson often found himself received as a hero and was the centre of celebrations and events held in his honour.
The following month, war broke out again and Nelson prepared to return to sea.
Nelson arrived off Toulon in July 1803 and spent the next year and a half enforcing the blockade.
Nelson set off in pursuit but after searching the eastern Mediterranean he learned that the French had been blown back into Toulon.
Nelson gave chase, but after arriving in the Caribbean, spent June in a fruitless search for the fleet.
Nelson stayed briefly in London, where he was cheered wherever he went, before visiting Merton to see Emma, arriving in late August.
Wellington was waiting to be debriefed on his Indian operations, and Nelson on his chase and future plans.
They accompanied Nelson to his barge and cheered him off, which Nelson acknowledged by raising his hat.
Nelson had devised a plan of attack that anticipated the allied fleet would form up in a traditional line of battle.
Hardy, standing next to Nelson on the quarterdeck, had his shoe buckle dented by a splinter.
The Victory had by now reached the enemy line, and Hardy asked Nelson which ship to engage first.
He turned to see Nelson kneeling on the deck, supporting himself with his hand, before falling onto his side.
Nelson was made comfortable, fanned and brought lemonade and watered wine to drink after he complained of feeling hot and thirsty.
Nelson told him that he was sure to die, and begged him to pass his possessions to Emma.
With Nelson at this point were the chaplain Alexander Scott, the purser Walter Burke, Nelson's steward, Chevalier, and Beatty.
Nelson was regarded as a highly effective leader, and someone who was able to sympathise with the needs of his men.
Nelson combined this talent with an adept grasp of strategy and politics, making him a highly successful naval commander.
Nelson was also highly confident in his abilities, determined and able to make important decisions.
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In the BBC's 100 Greatest Britons programme in 2002, Nelson was voted the ninth greatest Briton of all time.
Lambert also suggests that Nelson in fact acted to put an end to the bloodshed, using his ships and men to restore order in the city.
Nelson is also celebrated and commemorated in numerous songs, written both during his life and following his death.
A Royal Society of Arts blue plaque was unveiled in 1876 to commemorate Nelson at 147 New Bond Street.
The original Nelson family arms were altered to accommodate his naval victories.
After the Battle of Cape St Vincent in 1797, Nelson was dubbed a Knight of the Bath and granted heraldic supporters of a sailor and a lion.
Contemporary drawing depicting the arms of Admiral Nelson before Trafalgar.
He was buried in a sarcophagus of luxulyanite in St Paul's Cathedral next to Lord Nelson.
Previously, the School has hosted figures including Nelson Mandela and Margaret Thatcher.
The couple moved with Claire into lodgings at Somers Town, and later, Nelson Square.
Shorter in 1896, is that he adapted his name to associate himself with Admiral Horatio Nelson, who was also Duke of Bronte.
At the top of the column is a statue of Horatio Nelson who commanded the British Navy at the Battle of Trafalgar.
One thing Mansell did relish about the 1988 season was no longer having Nelson Piquet as his teammate.
Jones became the first of seven Williams drivers to win the Drivers' Championship, 17 points ahead of Nelson Piquet's Brabham.
The Brazilian moved to McLaren in 1988 and Lotus signed Senna's countryman and then World Champion Nelson Piquet from Williams.
Nelson always bemoaned that he had done badly out of prize money and even as a flag officer received little.
Lennox appeared on stage at the 1988 Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Concert and commenced activist work with the Sing Foundation afterwards.
Other African socialists include Jomo Kenyatta, Kenneth Kaunda, Nelson Mandela and Kwame Nkrumah.
Nelson travelled down the Wye in 1802, along with Lady Hamilton and her husband, Sir William Hamilton.
He built Paxton's Tower, in memorial to Lord Nelson whom he had met in 1802 when mayor of Carmarthen.
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The tomb of Horatio, Lord Nelson is located in the crypt, next to that of Wellington.
The natural progression was a title fight against the then WBO title holder, Johnny Nelson.
When Welsh returned to America he was intent on fighting Ritchie, having failed to meet both Nelson and Wolgast.
She was forced to pull out of the Nelson Mandela 90th Birthday Tribute concert because of her illness.
American playwright Richard Nelson dramatized the events surrounding the riot in his 1990 play Two Shakespearean Actors.
Another noteworthy attack occurred in 1797, when Santa Cruz de Tenerife was attacked by a British fleet under Horatio Nelson on 25 July.
Nelson instead divided his smaller force into two columns directed perpendicularly against the enemy fleet, with decisive results.
Early in 1805, Vice Admiral Lord Nelson commanded the British fleet blockading Toulon.
Nelson commenced a search of the Mediterranean, erroneously supposing that the French intended to make for Egypt.
Once Nelson realised that the French had crossed the Atlantic Ocean, he set off in pursuit.
The same month, Nelson returned home to Britain after two years of duty at sea.
Nelson had to wait until 15 September before his ship, HMS Victory, was ready to sail.
These ships were later diverted for convoy duty in the Mediterranean, although Nelson had expected them to return.
Nelson knew that the superior seamanship, faster gunnery and better morale of his crews were great advantages.
But his long game of cat and mouse with Nelson had worn him down, and he was suffering from a loss of nerve.
To say Nelson has been dogged by controversies since he was chief of Roseau River First Nation is an understatement.
Aidan O'Brien tightened his grip on the betting for the Classics with a Group One double, thanks to Horatio Nelson and Rumplestiltskin.
Also recall having to walk a long way to school from Nelson Village in huge snow drifts and scrumping turnips from the farmers fields en route.
From the program's inception, Nelson and Erbrick pushed for a bottom-up effort.
The orders apply to bus stations in Blackwood and Nelson, and the train and bus station areas in Caerphilly.
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Byron Nelson, for whom the tournament is named, caddied in his youth before starting a hall-of-fame golf career.
I wrote once about a passage and how it's commonly misattributed to Nelson Mandela's Inaugural Address.
Sara Nelson remembers their smorgasbord of friendship and fine food.
Coroner Simon Nelson ruled on Wednesday that the sorbet had triggered a fatal reaction.
Steven Spielberg, Stanley Nelson, Ken Burns, Mira Nair and Ron Howard, among many others, won CINE Golden Eagles early in their careers.
Lead researcher Kelly Nelson monitored fields of poorly drained claypan soil that was planted with corn after soybean.
Bob, who has been commissioned by global icons including Nelson Mandela, was made famous by his 1972 painting the Westoe Netty.
Nelson Bunker Hunt was second with Nobiliary in 1975 and I think Cape Verdi is good enough and strong enough to do it.
This led to the inevitable release of Nelson Mandela and the unbanning of all liberation movements.
A South African expat in the UAE says he couldn't have received an unsegregated education had it not been for anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela.
Last night climaxed with a performance by Amy Winehouse and Jerry Dammers of his song Free Nelson Mandela, joined by all the other artists.
Foucher worked as an apprentice with a violin maker in Nelson and the experience inspired his business.
The town is partially surrounded by countryside to the south and east, with the smaller towns of Padiham and Nelson to the west and north respectively.
He was raised in the small town of Wigton, where he attended the Wigton primary school and later The Nelson Thomlinson School, where he was Head Boy.
This act dissolved these provinces in 1853, after only seven years' existence, and New Munster was divided into the provinces of Canterbury, Nelson, and Otago.
Nelson convinced Hood otherwise, but a protracted debate between the army and naval commanders meant that Nelson did not receive permission to proceed until late March.
Nelson was careful to point out that something had to be left to chance.
The intention was to split the enemy line and engage in close quarter action, a form of combat in which, Nelson believed, the British fleet would have the advantage.
During the period of blockade off the coast of Spain in October, Nelson instructed his captains, over two dinners aboard Victory, on his plan for the approaching battle.
On 21 October, Admiral Nelson had 27 ships of the line under his command.

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