Nelson's first set of dispatches were captured when Leander was intercepted and defeated by Généreux in a fierce engagement off the western shore of Crete on 18 August 1798.

Although Nelson's biographer Ernle Bradford assumed in 1977 that the remains of Orient " are almost certainly unrecoverable ", the first archaeological investigation into the battle began in 1983, when a French survey team under Jacques Dumas discovered the wreck of the French flagship.

He then went in his motorcade of 22 motorcycles and 37 cars to PS 130 in Chinatown and met with Debra Nelson's first grade class.

American voice actress Dana Hill was first supposed to provide Nelson's voice, and attended the read-through of the episode.

Recognised for his abilities, Buchan was appointed as the Director of Information in 1917, under the Lord Beaverbrook a job that Buchan said was " the toughest job I ever took on " and also assisted Charles Masterman in publishing a monthly magazine that detailed the history of the war, the first edition appearing in February 1915 ( and later published in 24 volumes as Nelson's History of the War ).

Nelson's first album, Ricky, was released in October 1957 and hit number one before the end of the year.

The two wrote Nelson's first composition, the song " My Gal ", and she introduced him to Johnny Cash and Tex Ritter.

* The brig HMS Badger, was the future Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson's first command as a young lieutenant.

On 30 September 1840, the first stone of the column was laid by Charles Davison Scott, honorary secretary of the committee ( and son of Nelson's secretary, John Scott ), at a ceremony conducted, according to the Nautical Magazine, " in a private manner, owing to the noblemen and gentlemen comprising the committee being absent from town ".

The first civic monument to be erected in Nelson's honour was a 44-metre high obelisk on Glasgow Green in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1806.

Nelson's first challenge in the state senate-whether to re-elect Alexander Ramsey to the United States Senate for a third term, was contentious, as it was against the wishes of governor Cushman Davis.

In keeping with practices of the Gilded Age, Nelson's first agenda item in Congress was to ensure patronage for his supporters in Minnesota by doling out the limited number of federal appointments available.

Nelson's first term in the Congress continued until 1777, when a bout of illness forced his resignation.

Willie Nelson's first two official hits: “ Family Bible ”, written for Claude Gray, and the 1960 release “ Night Life " recorded by Ray Price.

Although the details remain in some dispute, the escape is suspected to have been arranged and financed by members of Nelson's newly-formed gang, including Homer Van Meter, Tommy Carroll, Eddie Green, and John " Red " Hamilton, with the understanding that Dillinger would repay some part of the bribe money out of his share of the first robbery.

Newspapers then reported, based on the questionable wording of an order from J. Edgar Hoover ("... find the woman and give her no quarter "), that the FBI had issued a " death order " for Nelson's young widow, who wandered the streets of Chicago as a fugitive for several days, described in print as America's first female " public enemy ".

For the first color season, it was expanded to include footage of Captain Nelson's space capsule splashing down on the beach, and Jeannie dancing out of her bottle and kissing Nelson.

Haas's first PGA Tour win, at the Memphis Invitational as an amateur, broke Byron Nelson's record streak of 11 straight victories.

Nelson and Hogan were rivals but close friends in their teen years, and for the first part of their professional careers as well, but Nelson's early success was difficult for the struggling Hogan to deal with, and they gradually grew apart, while retaining mutual respect.

On this list, Jack Nicklaus was first, Nelson's longtime rivals Ben Hogan and Sam Snead were second and third respectively, and Bobby Jones was fourth.

Since the series ended, Nelson has worked steadily as a writer, publishing several books ( as of March 2006 ): Mike Nelson's Movie Megacheese, Mike Nelson's Mind Over Matters and Mike Nelson's Death Rat !, the last being his first novel.

Nelson's first full appearance was episode 513, The Brain That Wouldn't Die.

Based on a stage play by Anita Rowe Block, the film, which is mainly a vehicle for Nelson, also features Nelson's then spouse Kristin.

Kaspar Hauser is also referred to in Katharine Neville's novel The Magic Circle ( 1998 ), in Steven Millhauser's short story " Kaspar Hauser Speaks " ( published in The Knife Thrower and Other Stories, 1998 ), Jeffrey Eugenides's novel Middlesex ( 2002 ), Maggie Nelson's poem " Kaspar Hauser " ( 2003, itself a probable reference to the Herzog film ), and Lucie Brock-Broido's poem " Self-Portrait as Kaspar Hauser " ( published in Trouble in Mind, 2004 ).

The film is set in 1937, three years after the real Nelson's death.

The movie was released seven years after Nelson's 1963 film Lilies of the Field, starring Sidney Poitier, which was made before the eruption of violence stemming from the American civil rights movement of the mid 1960s.

The film Killers from Space was featured in The Film Crew, Michael J. Nelson's follow-up to MST3K.

In Ozzie Nelson's book, he wrote that Harriet was quite popular during the short time at RKO and they wanted her to continue her solo film career, but decided that it was more important for her to continue with the band and subsequent radio show.

Both the Nelson company and David Nelson's trust hold copyright ownership for any new material derived from the film elements.

In his book, Mike Nelson's Movie Megacheese, Nelson ironically declares Road House " the single finest American film ".

In 2007, she returned to MST3K-style riffing on bad movies, joining former castmate Mike Nelson's RiffTrax for the film Glitter, and Bill Corbett for The X-Files movie, as well as becoming a cast member on Joel Hodgson's Cinematic Titanic, making her one of a select few MST3K alumni to be involved with both Mike and Joel's successor projects.

* When Nelson's father is explaining what happened to him on the way to get his cigarettes, his appearance after the peanut allergy swelling and subsequent enlistment as a freak for the traveling freak show parodies the life of Joseph Merrick, otherwise known as the Elephant Man, whose story is made famous by the David Lynch film The Elephant Man.

She served as an opening act for Willie Nelson's road show, and also appeared in his film Honeysuckle Rose, and also recorded for the soundtrack, which eventually received a " Platinum " rating by the RIAA.

The film is based on events and theories surrounding the Maravilla Hill case in Puerto Rico adapted from Anne Nelson's book, " Murder Under Two Flags.

Bonaparte, aware of Nelson's pursuit, enforced absolute secrecy about his destination and was able to capture Malta and then land in Egypt without interception by the British force.

On 21 May, as Nelson's squadron approached Toulon, it was struck by a fierce gale and Nelson's flagship HMS Vanguard lost its topmasts and was almost wrecked on the Corsican coast.

Nelson's plan, shaped through discussion with his senior captains during the return voyage to Alexandria, was to advance on the French and pass down the seaward side of the van and centre of the French line, so that each French ship would face two British ships and the massive Orient would be fighting against three.

Nelson's head wound was recorded as being " three inches long ", with " the cranium exposed for one inch ".

* 1805 28 October – HMS Victory was towed into Gibraltar bringing Nelson's body aboard.

The extensive quarries at Foggintor provided granite for the construction of London's Nelson's Column in the early 1840s, and New Scotland Yard was faced with granite from the quarry at Merrivale.

Eventually Paul Gleason intervened on Nelson's behalf because he was trying to stay in character.

In the 1970s Ted Nelson's original " Xanadu " hypertext repository was envisioned as such a service.

Napoleon's plans to invade Britain failed due to the inferiority of his navy, and in 1805, Lord Nelson's fleet decisively defeated the French and Spanish at Trafalgar, which was the last significant naval action of the Napoleonic Wars.

The British victory spectacularly confirmed the naval supremacy that Britain had established during the previous century and was achieved in part through Nelson's departure from the prevailing naval tactical orthodoxy, which involved engaging an enemy fleet in a single line of battle parallel to the enemy to facilitate signalling in battle and disengagement, and to maximise fields of fire and target areas.

Atlantic Records was now attempting to sign Jennings, but Nelson's rise to popularity persuaded RCA to renegotiate with Jennings before losing another potential success.

The identity of the " fat man " has never been confirmed, although who it was has been suggested to be one of Nelson's associates, or, as suggested by Fatso Negri to the BOI, Pretty Boy Floyd.

Though Nelson's Xanadu Corporation was eventually funded by Autodesk in the 1980s, it never created this proprietary public-access network.

It was the " birthplace " of many British naval vessels, including many of Admiral Nelson's fleet, using the timber of the New Forest.

Nelson's decision to wear ship was significant.

This manoeuvre was so unusual and so widely admired in the Royal Navy that using one enemy ship to cross to another became known facetiously as " Nelson's patent bridge for boarding enemy vessels.

Nelson's promotion to Rear-Admiral was not a reward for his services, but simply a happy coincidence: promotion to flag rank in the Navy of the time was based on seniority on the Captain's list and not on achievement.

The senior Rivers, also called William, was the master gunner aboard The Victory and it is thanks to his commonplace book ( now kept in the Royal Naval Museum library in Portsmouth ) that many of the thoughts of the sailors aboard Nelson's flagship are preserved.

It is shown in many episodes that Nelson's father abandoned him and his mother at an early age when he " went to pick up some Pop-Tarts " although, later on in the series, he was said to have gone to pick up a pack of cigarettes.