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The naval hero who regularly got seasick

One of the most famous naval heroes in history suffered from seasickness.

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B ritain's celebrated Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson was essentially the living embodiment of the hardscrabble "Four Yorkshiremen" of the classic Monty Python sketch. As a young naval officer, he lost sight in his right eye from gravel strewn by an incoming cannonball. A few years later, he had his right arm amputated — without anesthetic — after being shot in the heat of another battle. Lord Nelson also weathered the debilitating effects of malaria, yellow fever, tuberculosis, scurvy, and dysentery at various points in his life. But the cruelest affliction may well have been the seasickness that plagued him for the duration of his three-plus decades at sea.

This unfortunate condition was revealed to many with the public display of an 1804 letter in which Lord Nelson, then head of the British fleet in the Mediterranean, described his longtime struggles with boat-rocking waves. "I am ill every time it blows hard and nothing but my enthusiastic love for my profession keeps me one hour at sea," he wrote. Yet the seasickness hardly kept him from achieving stunning victories at the 1798 Battle of the Nile and the 1801 Battle of Copenhagen, the latter of which famously featured him holding a telescope to his blind eye and pretending not to see an order to retreat. While his death amid the British triumph over Napoleon's army at the 1805 Battle of Trafalgar kept him from enjoying the spoils of success like the Monty Python characters, Nelson did them one better by becoming the first nonroyal to receive a state funeral at St. Paul's Cathedral.

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Lord Nelson's age when he joined the British navy

Vessels that took part in the Battle of Trafalgar

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A painting contest was held to depict Lord Nelson's heroic death.

Britain's national love affair with Lord Nelson was perhaps best exemplified by a contest held for the painting that most dramatically captured his final heroic moments. One well-regarded entry came from former Royal Academy of Arts President Benjamin West, who all but replicated 1770's "The Death of General Wolfe" by showing Lord Nelson lying in the arms of his crew on the deck of the HMS Victory. But the winner was the handiwork of Arthur William Devis, who secured his release from prison by promising to pay off his debts with the grand prize of 500 guineas. Devis was allowed onto the Victory to interview and sketch the crew members, resulting in the realistic touches that appeared in "The Death of Nelson, 21 October 1805." And yet it was undoubtedly the liberties taken with the Christ-like portrayal of the revered naval commander, his shirtless body bathed in light and the backing pillow resembling a halo, that led to Devis claiming the award.