Remembering Nelson

Today is the historic anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar. From the Guardian:

Two hundred years after his finest achievement, what more is there to say about Horatio Nelson? Perhaps only this: that, as the sprawling, splendid Trafalgar bicentennial draws to a close, and the national hero is put back in his glass case until the next anniversary, it is clear that, even in the 21st century, Nelson endures.

...He does so because all his life - never more than in the mythic apotheosis of October 21 1805 - he rose to the occasion and, above all, because he was a brilliant naval strategist and a surprisingly caring leader - the lower deck adored him too.