On 24 January 2006, then Prime Minister John Howard announced Nelson's promotion from the Education, Science and Training portfolio to the high profile Defence portfolio.

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 ".

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.

* 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.

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.

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

None of Nelson's captains fell for the ruse and the British fleet continued undeterred.

Each of Nelson's Royal Navy war ships at Trafalgar ( 1805 ) required 6, 000 mature oaks for its construction.

Richard Alan Nelson's ( 2004 ) study cited above on Tracking Propaganda to the Source: Tools for Analyzing Media Bias reports there are at least 12 methods used to analyze the existence of and quantify bias:

* Paramount has TV and digital rights to some films in the Nelson Entertainment catalog, also as a result of the Viacom merger, including the Bill & Ted films – all other rights, including Nelson's later films and the copyright to Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, reside with MGM ( several other Nelson films are owned by Paramount for TV and digital distribution through the Spelling merger, as Worldvision at one point had rights to some Nelson films as well );

They proceeded to Saint Paul, Minnesota, met up with Hamilton ( who had been recovering for the past month from his gunshot wounds in the East Chicago robbery ), and mustered a new gang, and the two joined Baby Face Nelson's gang, composed of Homer Van Meter, Tommy Carroll and Eddie Green.

Similar considerations had previously been published, for example by R. Fürth ( 1933 ), I. Fényes ( 1952 ), and Walter Weizel ( 1953 ), and are referenced in Nelson's paper.

The Royal Navy used colours ( red, white, and blue, in descending order ) to indicate the seniority of its admirals until 1864 ; for example, Horatio Nelson's highest rank was vice admiral of the white.

Despite Nelson's return to the team for the Finals, the Lakers won the series and the championship by beating the Magic in five games.

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 ).

In 1853, Smyth was responsible for installing the time ball on top of Nelson's Monument in Edinburgh to give a time signal to the ships at Edinburgh's port of Leith.

Queen Victoria rarely visited Greenwich but in 1845 her husband Prince Albert personally bought Nelson's Trafalgar coat for the Naval Gallery.

Its several galleries look at Nelson's life and personality as well as what life was like for the men who sailed under him.

Most famous for breaking Byron Nelson's eleven tournament winning streak in 1945.

* the Tenantry Column — much in the style of Nelson's Column, tall and topped by the Percy Lion, symbol of the Percy family — designed by Charles Harper and erected for Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland in 1816 in gratitude to the Duke.

Computer Lib contains Nelson's thoughts on topics which angered him, while Dream Machines discusses his hopes for the potential of computers to assist the arts.

Nelson's plan was for the British ships to approach the weaker, southern end of the Danish defences in a line parallel to the Danish one.

Thinking that Nelson might have fought to a stand-still but be unable to retreat without orders ( the Articles of War demanded that all ranks do their utmost against the enemy in battle ), at 1: 30pm Parker told his flag captain, " I will make the signal of recall for Nelson's sake.

All action ceased when Crown Prince Frederick sent his Adjutant General, a Danish member of parliament, Hans Lindholm, asking for the reason for Nelson's letter.

The Jordanaires, Elvis Presley's back-up vocalists, worked for Nelson but at Presley's behest were not permitted credit on Nelson's albums.

Blair tried to make herself useful in Nelson's life by organizing his day and acting as a liaison for his fan club, but Nelson's mother, brother, business manager, and manager disapproved of her presence in his life.