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Blind Eye

Great Britain · Warfare / Napoleonic Wars. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1801

Horatio Nelson2 April 1801

Copenhagen · Warfare / Napoleonic Wars

Ignores Parker's signal by putting the telescope to his blind eye.

Names involved

Horatio Nelson

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