Lord Horatio Nelson Thesis

AN ESSAY ON
LEADERSHIP OF ADMIRAL LORD HORATIO NELSON
By Lt Cdr Hafiez Azree bin Md Nor TLDM

If I had been censured every time I have run my ship or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the service and never in he house of peers.
- Horatio Nelson

INTRODUCTION

1. Lord Nelson (29 September 1758 – 21 Oct 1805) was a British Naval Officer who was killed in the battle of Trafalgar. This battle however has led to the British victory over the French. As among the greatest Naval Commander in the history of the British, he went through an extremely challenging career path. All the experience acquired has made him as a Naval Officer with master in tactics of war at sea and have strong personal character. The

Nelson was born in September 1758, the sixth child of a Norfolk Rector. I suppose today we would call that a comfortable background.
He was a sickly child and grew to be a physically small and slender adult. His mother died when he was seven and life must have been difficult for Nelson 's father and the surviving siblings.
Nelson, through the offices of his uncle, went to sea at the age of twelve. This was a normal age in 1771. The armed services or church were often the career choice of people in such circumstances.

Nelson the Genius?

Genius is an ability in a particular sphere to which others look upwards. For example: Shakespeare in Poetry and Drama, Beethoven in Music, Napoleon as Military Governor, and Nelson as Commander of Fleets.
Naval men, Statesmen and Public alike all looked upwards to Nelson. Wherein lay the greatness of Nelson? Practically everyone, not being particularly interested, would reply to such a question (perhaps with a shrug of his shoulders) " oh, he won battles at sea, he was brave. Didn 't he lose an arm and an eye and was killed at Trafalgar ?

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