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The Pickled Hero

The British Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson (1758 - 1805), who joined the Navy at the age of 12, and was made captain at the age of 20, made his last sea voyage in a barrel. Mortally wounded in his hour of triumph at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, he died aboard his flagship “Victory”. His body was brought back to England pickled in brandy to stop it decomposing on the way home.

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