Nelson — Loss of Eye at Calvi 1794

Generated illustration. Not a historical photograph. A night harbour under a high island. Not a Calvi portrait and not a siege plan.

Overview

The wound is already on Nelson Horatio — Biography Overview. At Calvi in 1794 Nelson Horatio — Biography Overview was blinded in the right eye by flying debris.¹

The Wound

This note covers that 1794 wound only. A day-of-month, a battery, Corsican campaign narrative, and siege works stay on RESEARCH_QUEUE.

The same blind right eye is the one he put a telescope to at the Battle of Copenhagen 1801 — Overview. That object is on Telescope — Copenhagen 2 April 1801.²

Sources

• @white2005nelson
• Nelson Horatio — Biography Overview

Related

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Same Subject

• Nelson Horatio — Biography Overview
• Telescope — Copenhagen 2 April 1801
• Nelson — Loss of Arm at Tenerife 1797
• Bastia Landing — 4 April 1794 — 4 April landing only
• Calvi Wounded-List Omission — wounded-list omission only
• Calvi Sick-List — 150 in Beds — 150 / fifty only
• Calvi Lion Sun — Half Sick — lion sun / 2000 half sick only

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• Age of Sail — Era Overview
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Footnotes

1. Blinded in the right eye by flying debris at Calvi 1794: Nelson Horatio — Biography Overview. ↩

2. Blind right eye used at Copenhagen: Battle of Copenhagen 1801 — Overview. Do not invent a day-of-month, a battery, or siege works. Do not recopy spoken lines. ↩