Horatio Nelson is Britain's greatest naval hero; Trafalgar, in 1805, her greatest naval victory. Nelson and Napoleon, first published in 2005, is the story of how Britannia came to rule the waves for more than a hundred years. Christopher Lee re-examines the myths of Trafalgar, plotting Napoleon's overweening ambition to invade England and Nelson's single-minded dedication to seeking glory. He shows how Villeneuve had worked out Nelson's famous plan of attack, and demonstrates how the battle could easily have turned the other way. Lee also paints a vivid picture of the protagonists: particularly of the creation of a national hero in Nelson and his intense rivalry with Napoleon. 'Christopher Lee's vivid and painstaking account cuts through the folklore, replacing it with wonderful insights into early nineteenth-century Britain and Europe.' Daily Express
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| Date | | Major World
Events | | Nelson | | Napoleon | | Other Events |
| 1757 | | Robert Clive conquers Bengal | | | | | | |
| 1758 | | | | Horatio Nelson born in Burnham Thorpe Rectory, Norfolk | | | | Reappearance of Halley’s comet |
| 1759 | | Victory against the French at Quebec and death of General James Wolfe | | | | | | Josiah Wedgwood starts Burslem Pottery |
| | | | | | | | James Brindley designs the Worsley-
Manchester canal, the first man-made canal in Britain |
| 1760 | | George III succeeds to the throne | | | | | | |
| 1762 | | | | | | | | Rousseau’s Social Contract and Émile published |
| 1763 | | End of the Seven Years War | | | | | | Dr Johnson and Boswell meet |
| 1764 | | | | | | | | Spinning Jenny invented by James Hargreaves |
| 1766 | | | | | | | | Oliver Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield published |
| 1767 | | | | | | | | First publication of the National Almanac, an important navigational aid |
| 1768 | | | | | | | | The Royal Academy of Arts is founded |
| 1769 | | | | | | Napoleon Bonaparte born in Ajaccio, Corsica | | Captain James Cook lands on Tahiti before discovering New South Wales a year later |
| 1770 | | In North America, the ‘Boston Massacre’ | | Nelson joins the British navy | | | | |
| 1773 | | The Boston Tea Party | | | | | | Richard Arkwright builds his first spinning mill (factory) |
| | | | | | | | Captain Cook killed in Hawaii |
| 1775 | | American War of Independence (to 1783) | | | | | | |
| 1777 | | British surrender at Saratoga | | | | | | |
