admiral nelson awards and decorations

  1. Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson's Embroidered Breast Stars of the Imperial Ottoman Order of the Crescent

    Following Lord Nelson’s defeat of the French fleet at the battle of the Nile in August 1798, the Grand Seignior of the Ottoman Empire, Selim III, wrote to the British Minister of the Sublime Porte (Ottoman Court), stating that it was his intention to reward those officers who had made this...
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