Horatio Nelson

After taking San Fiorenzo and besieging Bastia, Stuart's force besieged Calvi, the last French-held fortress, capturing it before malaria and dysentery forced an urgent end.

With the conclusion of the siege, Corsica became a British colony and remained a British base of operations for two years, under arrangements negotiated with the Corsican leadership.

Nelson was severely injured by flying stone splinters during French counter-battery fire on 12 July 1794, eventually losing the sight in his right eye.

Jervis and his officers were rewarded; Córdoba was dismissed and barred from court. Jervis resumed the blockade of Cadiz, and £140,000 in prize money was advertised in 1798.

The Spanish fleet of 27 ships of the line lay at Cartagena; Nelson reached the fifteen-ship British fleet on 13 February and reported the Spanish position to Jervis.

On 14 February 1797, Jervis formed a single line of battle and defeated Córdoba's larger Spanish fleet off Cape St. Vincent in Portugal.

Jervis and his officers were rewarded for the victory, enabling the British return to the Mediterranean, while Córdoba was dismissed and disgraced.

The defeated Spanish fleet returned to Cádiz, where Jervis's blockade curtailed Spanish naval activity until the 1802 Peace of Amiens.

Jervis sailed from the Tagus to intercept the Spanish fleet and was reinforced by Parker's five ships before Nelson's Minerve delivered intelligence.

Jervis formed a single line of battle and passed between the two unprepared Spanish columns, defeating the larger fleet under Córdoba.

Nelson was wounded in the arm during the assault; the arm was subsequently partially amputated, a stigma he carried to his grave.

Nelson departed for the Canary Islands on 14 July 1797 with a mixed squadron of ships of the line, frigates, a cutter, and a mortar boat.

Nelson launched the amphibious assault on 22 July 1797; it was defeated, and the landing party withdrew under truce on 25 July after losing several hundred men.

Nelson's fleet attacked the anchored French line at Aboukir Bay on 1 August 1798, decisively defeating Brueys' force in a fierce engagement.

On 2 September 1798 a popular uprising drove the French garrison back into Valletta within days.

After the Battle of the Nile, British ships formally began the blockade of Malta on 12 October 1798.

On 28 October 1798, 217 French soldiers on Gozo surrendered to Ball without a fight.

French convoys in February 1800 and the Guillaume Tell the following month were intercepted by British squadrons.

By August 1800 the besieged city lacked animals, food, and water, and civilians had been expelled.

Vaubois surrendered Valletta to British troops on 4 September 1800 after holding out five months beyond the decisive defeats.

A provisional Jacobin government was established at Pescara in January 1799 as an integral part of the Parthenopean Republic, holding out until 30 June 1799.

Pignatelli signed the surrender to French general Championnet at Sparanise on 12 January 1799, then fled to Palermo four days later.

On 20 January 1799 Republican troops under Championnet conquered the fortress of Castel Sant'Elmo; French forces entered Naples the next day.

The Parthenopean Republic was proclaimed in Naples on 21 or 23 January 1799, following the French entry into the city.

The republic collapsed on 13 June 1799 when the Sanfedists returned Ferdinand to power; he then harshly subdued republican activities.

Nelson arrived with his fleet on 24 June 1799, initially refusing to recognise the capitulation except as concerned the French, before authorising the Republicans' embarcation.

British fleet defeated the Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy near Copenhagen on 2 April 1801, breaking up the Second League of Armed Neutrality.

Nelson assumed command of the British fleet blockading Cádiz in 1805 to counter French and Spanish naval forces.

The Royal Navy defeated the combined Franco-Spanish fleet off Cape Trafalgar on 21 October 1805.

Nelson's coffin was moved from the Record Room to the Painted Hall at Greenwich Hospital on 4 January 1806, beginning an announced three-day lying-in-state with a private royal viewing.

Nelson's coffin was transported upriver from Greenwich to Westminster on the State Barge of Charles II, rowed by sailors from HMS Victory.

The first true state funeral at St Paul's Cathedral occurred on 9 January 1806, with the coffin carried through the nave to the choir.